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Garry Kasparov (R) and Anatoly Karpov at the Arts Palau in Valencia on Septemeber 22, 2009 (AFP Photo / Jose Jordan) 24.09.2009, 11:44

Kasparov keeps his lead in Karpov duel

Garry Kasparov has maintained his 2-point lead after the second day of his match against Anatoly Karpov. The two legends are playing in Valencia to mark the 25th anniversary of their first clash for the chess crown.

Garry Kasparov (R) and Anatoly Karpov in Valencia (AFP Photo / Jose Jordan) 23.09.2009, 12:44

Kasparov takes 2-0 lead in nostalgic chess duel

Garry Kasparov has taken a 2-0 lead on the first day of his match against archrival Anatoly Karpov, as the chess masters play in Valencia to mark the 25th anniversary of their first clash for the sport’s crown.

21.09.2009, 14:58 2 comments

Chess legends to repeat their historic rivalry

A retro match between world chess legends Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov will kick off in Valencia on Monday, marking 25 years since their first clash for the sport’s world crown, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.

04.09.2009, 15:28

Too drunk to checkmate

A French chess grandmaster was unable to finish his game against his Indian opponent because he dozed out after 11 moves. The embarrassing incident has been attributed to excessive alcohol consumption.

24.04.2009, 10:45

Checkmate! Angry chess player throws rival out of the window

The court in the Russian Republic of Udmurtia has sentenced to a man, who was so upset to lose a chess match that he threw his opponent out of the window, to six years in prison, Infox.ru reports.

30.06.2009, 12:31 2 comments

Former chess world champ to play convicts

Chess grandmaster and former undisputed champion of the world, Anatoly Karpov, will play an online chess tournament with a Krasnoyarsk prisoner Sergey Bryukhov and his fellow inmates.

Vladimir Kramnik (Photo from sparkassen-chess-meeting.de) 14.07.2009, 00:21

Russian grand master secures world record

Vladimir Kramnik, a Russian grand master, will see his name added to the Guinness Book of World Records.

RIA Novosti / Grigoriy Sysoev 29.09.2010, 17:07

Ilyumzhinov re-elected FIDE president

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has been re-elected president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) at the 81st FIDE congress held in the Russian Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk.

20.03.2009, 19:21 2 comments

Russian claims European chess crown

Russian Tatiana Kosintseva has taken the women's European chess championship, which ended in St Petersburg on Friday.

04.03.2010, 20:24 2 comments

Former chess champ to entertain 'space travelers'

Volunteers who will isolate themselves from the outside world for 520 days as part of the Mars-500 experiment will wind down playing chess with former world champ Anatoly Karpov.

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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.

 
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Stela September 25, 2009, 18:15 quote
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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.

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