Anatoly Karpov
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Russia and US play jailhouse chess
convicts from prisons across Russia sat down to play the game in Moscow, with the encouragement of former World Champion Anatoly Karpov. Cook County's team of ten were guided by the head of its prison chess programme, Dr Mikhail Korenman. The gangster Al Capone from BBC News Read more »
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Pawn to Cellblock 4: US, Russian Inmates to Battle on Chessboard
which will be conducted online, is the brainchild of Korneman, renowned Russian grandmaster and former world champion Anatoly Karpov, and Tom Dart, an Illinois sheriff who launched a chess program last year in Chicago’s Cook County Jail as a way of encouraging from RIA Novosti Read more »
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Lubomir Kavalek: Chess: Remembering Robert Byrne (1928-2013)
U.S. championship playoff in Chicago and went on to finish third at the Leningrad Interzonal behind Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov, qualifying for the Candidates match against Boris Spassky. He asked me to help him prepare for the match and be his analyst from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Anand vs Carlsen fills void for Fischer vs Kasparov
If Bobby Fischer had played the World championship chess match (instead of forfeiting the title) and defeated Anatoly Karpov in 1975, the chess history might have been different. And assuming that the charismatic American had retained his title until 1985, from Times of India Read more »
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India's grandmaster Viswanathan Anand gives chess a new opening in Britain
Though it does need stamina. Much stamina. In 1984 the World Chess Championships in Moscow between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, was terminated because of the threat to the health of the players. The match had lasted five months, with five wins for Karpov, from The Telegraph Read more »
