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...interested in working for the sake of working," said Rice. "Andrew wants to be in the center of the musical-theater world all the time." Since the breakup, Rice has had a modest London hit with his Plantagenet saga Blondel and a major triumph in Chess, a cynical look at a championship chess match between a Soviet and an American that boasts a brilliant score by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, two members of the rock group ABBA. It is scheduled for a Broadway opening in April. In 1986 he reunited briefly with his former partner on a 30-minute...
Even for devoted fans, the two-month-long world chess championship in Seville had been something of a sleeper. The games had been mostly lackluster, with all but six of the first 22 ending in a draw, as the two Soviet opponents reined in their simmering disdain for each other. But last week the chess world came awake with a jolt...
...resign. That left the final count tied at 12 and meant he retained his championship. The feat had the capacity crowd of 700 in the ornate Teatro Lope de Vega offering a 20-minute standing ovation. One expert called it the "most dramatic finish ever seen in world- championship chess...
...match was just the latest installment in the bitter rivalry between the "two Ks," as the competitors are known. The two are a study in chess contrasts. The athletic Kasparov favors flamboyant attacks and unusual defenses. Karpov, on the other hand, plays the game as though he were dissecting a microchip. In his newly published autobiography, Child of Change, Kasparov claims that he is a living example of the new Soviet glasnost and Karpov is a hidebound apparatchik. Karpov, who became champion by default after Bobby Fischer gave up the crown in 1975, has dismissed these charges as merely "part...
...board, the acrimony between the two Ks could melt pawns. Their first championship contest, in Moscow in September 1984, with an exhausted Karpov leading 5-3, ended when officials of the World Chess Federation, the sport's ruling body, stopped play for "medical" reasons. Kasparov's loud complaints about political favoritism fell on deaf ears. In their next meeting, nine months later, the challenger got his revenge. He became, at 22, the youngest champion in history. Last year in Leningrad, he retained the title, beating Karpov by one point...