The history of sport has seen many great gladiatorial clashes: Ali
v Frazier in boxing, McEnroe v Borg in tennis, Prost v Senna in
motor racing. None however can quite compare to the intensity of
the rivalry between those two great world chess champions: Garry
Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. Between 1984 and 1990 they contested
an astonishing five World Championship matches consisting of 144
individual encounters. This volume concentrates on the first two of
those matches. The epic 1984/85 contest which was lasted six months
before being controversially halted "without result" by the then
President of FIDE Florencio Campomanes.The 1985 match when Kasparov
brilliantly won the final game to take the title and become - at
the age of 22 - the youngest ever world champion. Great chess
contests have often had resonances extending beyond the 64 squares.
The Fischer v Spassky match was played during the Cold War with
both champions being perceived as the finest products of their
respective ideologies. The Karpov v Korchnoi battles (three matches
between 1974 and 1981) were lent an edge with Karpov being a
Russian hero of the pre-Glasnost era whilst Korchnoi was the
disaffected dissident. The Kasparov v Karpov encounters mirrored a
battle between the new Russia and old Russia with Kasparov seen as
a symbol of the new ideology emerging under Gorbachev whereas
Karpov was seen to represent the old regime of die-hard Communists
such as Brezhnev. In this volume Garry Kasparov (world champion
between 1985 and 2000 and generally regarded as the greatest player
ever) analyses in depth the clashes from 1984 and 1985, giving his
opinions both on the political machinations surrounding the matches
as well as the games themselves.
General
| Imprint: |
Everyman Chess
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
Garry Kasparov
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| Dimensions: |
244 x 170 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
426 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78194-521-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-78194-521-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781781945216 |
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