Word: karpov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the rest of the sporting world was distracted with sideshows -- the World Series, the Douglas-Holyfield fight -- the main event was being played out in utter silence at the Hudson Theater on Broadway, where the two best players in the world, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, were fighting it out for the championship of chess. (After 12 games, the match is tied...
When Kasparov played at Harvard he dueled eight master opponents using a maximum time limit between each move, Edelman said. Karpov, however, faced 35 more opponents and moved from board to board virtually without rest for more than five hours...
Mercuri acknowledged that Karpov was not playing under the easiest of conditions and said, "If we had played ten games one-on-one, I would have been happy to draw one game. It just proves that on a given day anything can happen...
...Karpov has been criticized openly for his more conservative political views by Kasparov, who defeated him for the world championship...
...Karpov's observers this weekend gave a more favorable assessment of the former world champion...