Word: karpov
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Kasparov, who has reigned as world champion since 1985, reportedly received $36,000 to play in this northern city. He finished runner-up with 5.5 points. Former Soviet world champion Anatoly Karpov ended up with five points...
Anand, who practices six hours a day, said he aims to end Soviet domination and take the world title in 1996. He can't challenge Kasparov in next year's championships because he lost a qualifying match to Karpov, who dominated the world scene from...
Gorbachev's assessment was not much different. On Friday morning the Kremlin leader received a letter from the White House outlining the proposals. He talked them over with top advisers, including arms-control negotiator Victor Karpov and Defense Minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, and then took a phone call from Bush -- all before the President went on TV. Sounding a bit incredulous, Gorbachev asked whether some of the American moves really were unilateral rather than conditioned on a Soviet response; Bush assured him they were. That extensive consultation was itself a welcome illustration of the current ; civility in U.S.-Soviet relations...
Down on the Hudson stage, however, the protagonists were engaged not so much in truth seeking as in attempted murder. Kasparov, who calls Karpov "a creature of darkness," had declared his intent not just to defeat Karpov but to destroy him. Accordingly, Kasparov played the opening games with the confident, reckless belligerence of a young Ali. Karpov, though, was fully Frazier's equal. The result was mayhem rarely seen at that level of play. It was like a title fight with 10 knockdowns by Round 3 or, for the more delicate, like a ballet performed not on a stage...
Forget about baseball and boxing. The chess battle between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov -- and the upstairs kibitzing -- has been the supreme contest of the season...