Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
One was Brezhnev, (singer Vladimir) Vysotsky, and the third one was Anatoly Karpov. “The privileges that he got, you cannot imagine. He couldn’t compare with anybody in Russia.” Even at that ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov had been abandoned. “I couldn’t come to the Soviet Union, of course. I was an enemy ...