This week in Philly history, a man and a computer face off in the final match of an intensely followed chess tournament
This week in Philly history, a man and a computer face off in the final match of an intensely followed chess tournament Garry ...
Voters ordered ‘sh*t sandwich’ with Trump, ‘now complain about how it’s cooked,’ Putin hater says
“Republicans ordered the sh-t sandwich and now complain about how it was cooked,” Kasparov said on X in response to Trump ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
If Kasparov won, it would be confirmation that times were changing, that something fresh and exciting and terrifying was coming. But to be abandoned, without a winner, after 48 grueling games?
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champ who lost Cold War’s ‘Match of the Century,’ dies at 88
Soviet chess legend Boris Spassky, who lost the 1972 "Match of the Century" to American Bobby Fischer in a Cold War-era ...
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Kasparov’s Crusade
Here is the latest episode of my Music for a While; and here is my latest Q&A, which is with Garry Kasparov. The text accompanying the music podcast is as follows: A piece he was writing about ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
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 ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
If Kasparov won, it would be confirmation that times were changing, that something fresh and exciting and terrifying was coming. In terms of popularity, chess in the Soviet Union was akin to the ...