Bored with chess, world’s top player wants to remake the game
Two prominent voices want chess to change. Carlsen, the 34-year-old Norwegian grand master and five-time world champion who ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
When contacted for comment, current FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky told CNN that Sosonko’s claims were “rather inaccurate.” While admitting that the Soviets did have a lot of influence, he pointed ...