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SEVILLE, Spain--Anatoly Karpov, the challenger, scored a dramatic victory yesterday in the next-to-last game of the World Chess Championship, putting him in position to take the title from champion Garri Kasparov with a draw in the final contest...
Karpov only requires a draw in Friday's final game to regain the title he held for 10 years, but lost to Kasparov in November...
...Gulko has won more games against current world champion Gary Kasparov than he has lost...
...gala grudge rematch for Soviet Chess Champions Gary Kasparov, 23, the . current world titleholder, and Anatoly Karpov, 35, who reigned from 1975 to 1985. They had played each other a record 72 times in 14 months: a five-month, 48-game marathon that ended without a winner in February 1985, and a second match that finished last November in a smashing 13-11 victory for the brash, high-living Kasparov. Last week they began Round 3 in London, with Games 73, 74 and 75 (all draws). But not before an opening round of press-conference publicity, in which Kasparov, asked...
While Karpov and Kasparov were face to face, the two computers were 750 miles apart--the Cray in Mendota Heights, Minn., the Sun on the Pittsburgh campus of Carnegie-Mellon University. The computers' moves were sent over telephone lines to Denver and relayed to a regulation chessboard. But distance did not hurt the game. Says Chess Master David Levy: "For the first time a program played like a strong human player...