Topic: Anatoli Karpov

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We love chess, but it doesn't love us back. After hisfather's untimely death, the twelve year old chess prodigy soon adopted theRussian-sounding name Garry Kasparov (Kas-PARE-off) a reference to his mother's Armenianmaiden name, Kasparian.Kasparov won the SovietJunior Championship, held in Tbilisi in ...
Chess legends Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov are to relive their epic 1984 world championship duel 25 years on by contesting a new match this September in the Spanish city of Valencia. "It will be 25 years since the start of the ...