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Meanwhile, the official World Chess Championship had opened a day earlier, with considerably less hubbub, in the small town of Zwolle, the Netherlands. There, former world champion Anatoly Karpov faced Dutch grandmaster Jan Timman for prize money of roughly $1.4 million...
...brought Boris Karpov, another world-champion grandmaster, to Harvard to play a match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, the world's most powerful chess-playing computer...
...virulently anti-Semitic; his mother, from whom he has been estranged in the past, is Jewish. So up he pops while the world watches, defending himself against charges of anti-Semitism on a technicality ("I am definitely not anti-Arab, O.K.?") while castigating Zionism, berating the U.N. and accusing Karpov and Gary Kasparov, the current chess world champion, of fixing title matches during the 1980s...
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...