Word: karpov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cyberspace was his, and the grand master has carefully controlled the setup from start to finish. He chose the game's host--Microsoft--for its software and marketing muscle. He insisted on up-and-coming chess prodigies to lead the world team--rather than more famous rivals like Anatoly Karpov or Nigel Short--so it wouldn't become a grudge match. And he set the 24-hr. gap between moves to ensure an antiseptic game, with none of the silly blunders you get in speed chess...
...close. Karpov...
...part, FIDE responded predictably: it expunged Kasparov and Short from its list of ranking grandmasters and decreed the Karpov-Timman match in Zwolle as the only true chess championship. No one, not even FIDE loyalists, took this claim seriously. Surreptitiously or not, chess attention centered on London...
Short's early chess successes came almost too easily. By the time he was 23, he was ranked No. 3 in the world, behind world champion Gary Kasparov and ex- champ Anatoly Karpov. By his own admission, he had never worked very hard at the game. He relied heavily on a natural chess sense that allowed him to play brilliant moves almost intuitively, as if they came out of his fingertips, not his brain...
...Jonathan Speelman in a preliminary round of the world championship, his ranking plunged to 18th, but he picked himself up, hired Czech grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek as his coach and rebuilt his career. Patiently he battled his way through the grueling qualifying rounds of the current championship, polishing off Speelman, Karpov and Dutch grandmaster Jan Timman...