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Kasparov beats Karpov in duel of chess legends
Published: 25 September, 2009, 11:19
Edited: 27 September, 2009, 10:38
Chess legends Garry Kasparov (R) and Anatoli Karpov (AFP Photo/Jose Jordan)
Garry Kasparov has beaten his archrival Anatoly Karpov in a three-day match in Valencia, which the two Russian chess masters played to mark the 25th anniversary of their first clash for the sport’s crown.
46-year-old Kasparov led 3-1 after four 25-minute matches with five seconds added on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The outcome of the duel was to be decided on Thursday, with eight 5-minute matches with two seconds added after each move scheduled on the day.
58-year-old Karpov won the first blitz game, despite playing with the black pieces, but failed to launch a comeback.
The second game ended in a draw, and then Kasparov won five in a row to clinch the win. The last game, which couldn’t affect the overall result, was also a draw.
In the end, Kasparov triumphed in the three-day match with a convincing 9-3 score.
The Valencia duel was the first stage of a six-month chess marathon in all the countries in which Kasparov and Karpov have played each other.
The race, which got underway in Spain and continues via Russia, the UK and the US, will end in Paris’s very own Louvre.
Karpov is the 12th World Chess Champion, while Kasparov is the 13th, and the two Kas are considered to be the best players in the history of the sport.
They first clashed in 1984, and Karpov was 5-3 up after 48 games when the match was ultimately halted on health grounds, with no winner declared.
Karpov, the defending champ, had lost 10 kilograms, but was willing to continue, as was his rival.
But Kasparov put his hands on the world title in 1985, winning the rematch. He became the youngest chess champ in history at the age of 22.
In the end, in five world championship matches against each other, Kasparov won 21 games, Karpov 19 and they drew 104 times.
Karpov remains an active player. The Russian is ranked 146th by the World Chess Federation. His countryman Kasparov quit the game in 2005, becoming a politician.
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Superb top-class event in Valencia with spell-binding matches between the most emblematic contemporary chess genii - firstly Garry Kasparov and secondly, but no less meritorious, Anatoli Karpov.Thanks to this excellent promotion, at the end of the day the great game of chess became the ultimate victor surely providing both star players with an enormous sense of satisfaction knowing that the successive event in Paris in December will be greeted with even more enthusiasm and expectation! Hopefully the French organisers will be able to cope more successfully with the demand than the official Valencian website at gva.es has done.... in respect of the vast amount of internauters who will want to watch the next Kasparov/Karpov event..... LIVE! Moreover, the quality of the English language translation of the official website of Valencia also left much to be desired. Last but not least, Valencia is the name of a city/province but not a country. It is geographically situated inside the country of Catalonia (Catalunya). In Catalonia, there are two official languages, one being Castellano (Spanish) and the other being Catalan, of course, (an historic language of Latin origin). Valencia is simply the name of a city/province within Catalonia, in the same way as Barcelona, Tarragona or Girona for example. Therefore, in respect of such an important chess event with international repercussion, the official website of the Generalitat of Valencia should have offered alternative language versions to their on-line info not only in Spanish and English but also in Catalan, not "Valencian"!!! In any case visitors to Catalonia will discover that Catalonian people are normally bi-lingual anyway without any trouble at all because they speak both Catalán and Spanish as aforementioned.