Word: contests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Seville both players were showing signs of strain and had made elementary errors. Although Kasparov's dangerously careless play in Game 23 had badly unnerved him, he regained his composure for the final meeting last Friday. The defending champion opened the contest with an uncharacteristically conservative strategy designed to build an advantage slowly. The tactic seemed to wear down Karpov, who was short of time. When play resumed on Saturday after an adjournment, the champion methodically advanced his queen into the challenger's territory. It took just 24 moves for Kasparov to renew his hold on the title...
...puzzled by this unprecedented legal concept," said Robert Berzok, a spokesman for Union Carbide, based in Danbury, Conn. "It amounts to awarding damages without a trial or evidence." Berzok said Union Carbide might contest the ruling in a U.S. court...
...Sunset Strip: "Won't someone please nominate this girl for an Oscar?" But Hunter, 29 and 5 ft. 2 in., is no late entry in the prima donna sweepstakes. She is a hardscrabble sprite from Conyers, Ga., a dues payer from off-Broadway (Beth Henley's The Miss Firecracker Contest) and off-Hollywood (Joel and Ethan Coen's Raising Arizona) whose only eccentricity, says Joel Coen, "is how easy she is to work with." She has built a boutique gallery of daft characters: nymphets and star children who swagger like cowgirls. And now she stars in the most coveted role...
...winner of the contest will hold the championship crown for three years...