The greatest match that never was — when Fischer and Karpov didn’t meet
The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities.
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White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard
When it came to the next world championship in 1978, between Korchnoi and Karpov, the Soviets had learned that a chess match must be won off the board as well as on it. To that end, they employed ...