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 ...