Great Moments in Chess: Kasparov Seizes the Crown
Garry Kasparov was recently Jan Gustafsson and Peter Heine Nielsen s pick as the Greatest Chess Player of All Time, though their no. 2, Magnus Carlsen, may have something to say about that before he s done! For Part 2 of Sean Marsh s Great Moments in Chess series, he looks at November 9th 1985, when 22-year-old Garry finally snatched the World Championship crown from Anatoly Karpov, three years after his odyssey to the title had begun.
Kasparov and Karpov during their 1985 match | photo: Owen Williams, Wikipedia
As Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov battle it out in the New in Chess Classic, we continue our celebratation of the New in Chess Magazine that the tournament is named after.
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