Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry ...

Kasparov vs. Karpov: Greatest chess rivalry in history Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov: The World Championship Rivalry of 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1990.

“I couldn’t come to the Soviet Union, of course. I was an enemy as (far as they were) concerned,” he says in an interview with CNN Sport. “I remember that day very well because I was in Switzerland, ...

Karpov’s conservatism and Kasparov’s radical nature were both present in their chess. “There was something of a clash of titans here, in stylistic view,” Andrew Soltis, American grandmaster and chess ...