The World Championship Rivalry of 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1990. Historic, famous chess games analyzed. 0:00 Intro 0:49 ...

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 ...

Curiously, Bobby Fischer never won an all-grandmaster tournament. In his heyday such elite events were rare; now they are commonplace. Today there are more than 400 grandmasters, compared to about 100 ...

In the 1980s, Garry Kasparov was taking the world by storm which reminds me of a time in the 1920s when Jose Raul Capablanca of Cuba was beating everyone in chess. The New York Times reported that ...

Nine games and 25 days in, Karpov had established a seemingly unassailable 4-0 lead. As Kasparov began to get more of a handle on the match, the next 17 games were drawn, before Karpov won again in ...

GONE were the little red desk-top flags with the Soviet hammer and sickle. But, as they fiddled nervously with their pieces, it was clear that the old rivalry between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov ...