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...then, as the din gradually subsided, Nigel Short and Gary Kasparov began to push chess pieces across a board...
...been running world championship competitions since 1948. In the past, FIDE's authority would have been enough to convince chess fans that Karpov-Timman was the match to follow. Unfortunately, Karpov and Timman had both been eliminated by Short during the FIDE-sponsored competitions to determine who would challenge Kasparov for the championship...
This is not the first time that Edelman has brought famous chess players to the Harvard area. While still an undergraduate in 1989, he said, he orchestrated a visit by Gary Kasparov, The Russian grandmaster and then world champion...
...years ago would not have dared carry his coat -- the younger ones would not have been tall enough -- now publicly call his play aimless and amateurish. One Russian grand master advises patronizingly that Fischer must "realize that chess has changed in the past 20 years." World champion Garry Kasparov notes the "low level" of play in the match. "Incredibly low," says international master Alex Sherzer, with more than a trace of disgust...
...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...