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     Aristotle Junior Artist Username: Aristotle Post Number: 110 Registered: 01-2013 Posted From: 59.144.135.7 Rating: N/A |
In chess, the gentlest of all sports, there have been bitter rivalries too, right from the first ever World championship match between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort in 1886. But there has never been a greater rivalry than the one between the two mighty Russians, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. It was a rivalry that lasted over a couple of decades and five World championships. The first of those championship matches was held in 1984-85 in Moscow. Karpov, 33 then, was the defending champion and Kasparov, 21, the pretender. Karpov had been the World champion since winning the title without playing a game in 1975, when the temperamental Bobby Fischer refused to defend his crown. With consecutive victories over Victor Korchnoi at the World championship in 1978 and 1981, he had proved that he was the best player in the world. He may not have been a prodigy, but he was a remarkably steady player with a cautious, solid style. He was very difficult to beat. Kasparov was aggressive, imaginative and hardworking. He had earned the right to take on the reigning champion by scoring convincing wins in the Candidates tournament against Alexander Beliavsky (6-3), Korchnoi (7-4) and Vasily Smyslov (8.5-4.5). The expectations around the 1984 match were high. But nobody expected the match would last five months and still produce no result. In the longest World championship match ever, 48 games were played. It was Karpov who drew first blood, winning the third game, after the first two were drawn. He looked in great form as he won the sixth and the seventh games too. After a draw in the next game, he won the ninth. He was 4-0 up from just nine games, and all he needed was two more wins to keep the crown (the player who wins six games was to be the champion). | ||
| Termi Side Hero Username: Termi Post Number: 2719 Registered: 01-2012 Posted From: 65.249.12.3 Rating: N/A |
chess aa..chuss..idi kuda sport aa..? Hardcore Prabhas raju fan | ||
| Aristotle Junior Artist Username: Aristotle Post Number: 109 Registered: 01-2013 Posted From: 59.144.135.7 Rating: N/A |
http://goo.gl/NSbs9J Interesting article for chess lovers Even read the related news stuff |
