One was Brezhnev, (singer Vladimir) Vysotsky, and the third one was Anatoly Karpov. “The privileges that he got, you cannot ...

He's no Anatoly Karpov aspirant nor a Garry Kasparov wannabe. Why should he? Nope, Teh Wee Zhun is a man of the times, and to him, Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is the be all and end ...

Gukesh, who is also the first teenager to win the title, broke the record of Garry Kasparov, who became the champion at the age of 22 after beating Anatoly Karpov way back in 1985. On Thursday ...

It can't change just because somebody withdrew. That would be like saying that Anatoly Karpov was not the world champion in 1975 because Bobby Fischer withdrew." Perhaps, but there is a slight ...

The previous world record was held by Garry Kasparov who defeated Anatoly Karpov at the age of 22 to become world champion in ...

One of the first to react was Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, who told TASS state news agency: "He was always one of my ...

Indian chess prodigy D. Gukesh defeated Ding Liren to become the youngest-ever World Chess Champion in Singapore on Thursday. Gukesh's victory in the 14-round tournament surpasses Garry Kasparov's ...