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...from the revolutionary socialist Largo Caballero to the moderate Negrin According to Carr. "The revolutionary ardor so easily whipped up in the summer and autumn of 1936 to fire the struggle against Fascism, had given place to the cool calculations of diplomacy: Spain was a pawn on the Eruopean chess board...
When the triennial match for the world chess championship opened last September, excitement ran high. Enthusiasts from all over the Soviet Union and around the world flocked to Moscow's House of Trade Unions to watch Anatoli Karpov, 33, champion since 1975, defend his crown against fellow Soviet Citizen Gary Kasparov, 21, the youngest person ever to compete in a title match. Great, even unprecedented chess was predicted. But no one expected the record-breaking outcome: the longest drawn-out draw in championship history and, in a sport richly littered with strange events, probably the most controversial referee's ruling...
Last week, after five months and 48 games, with Karpov haggardly hanging on to a 5-3 lead but unable for twelve wearying weeks to achieve the match- winning sixth victory, World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes stepped in to stop the battle. At a Moscow press conference, Campomanes, who under world chess rules wields practically unlimited power, said he had acted because the contest "has exhausted the physical if not the psychological resources not only of the players but of all those connected with the match." To many--not least the hard-charging Kasparov, who had won the last...
...young challenger was still furious. Outside the hall, he met with reporters and supporters and virtually accused Karpov of ganging up with Campomanes, a Filipino and longtime friend of the champion. "So, we see Karpov gets what he wants," Kasparov fumed. "He remains world champion. Why play chess if the president can take these decisions at any moment...
...uncertainty in Moscow that foreign diplomats and journalists became nervous every time the radio broadcast somber symphonic music, frequently the first indication of a top leader's death. There were other signs and portents as well for Kremlin watchers: at week's end, for example, the long-running world chess match between Anatoli Karpov and Gary Kasparov was abruptly moved out of the House of Unions, the elegant building where Soviet leaders traditionally lie in state...