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...The Chennai teenager broke Garry Kasparov’s record as the youngest world championship challenger, and will meet China’s Ding Liren for the crown at the end of this year....
...Ding Liren’s poor form since becoming champion means that Gukesh will be the favourite in the world title match, implying that another age record, Garry Kasparov’s as the youngest world champion at 22, is...
...Gukesh has been the revelation of the Candidates, and is now in serious contention to become the youngest world champion in chess history, a record currently held by Garry Kasparov at age 22....
...While Carlsen’s positive reputation as one of three greatest of all time, alongside Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, is already secure, Ding is in real danger of creating a negative record, as the worst...
...In the eyes of many, his consistency is edging him ahead of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer as the greatest of all time....
...Age 14-15 has been a breakthrough year for several top players in the past, including the world champions Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, and Royal has made his own quantum jump in the past few months....
...He finished last, but 13 years later challenged Garry Kasparov for the world title. Puzzle 2548 White mates in three moves (by Philip Williams, 1908)....
...three-minute and five-minute blitz rather than in the slower classical game, but that follows the pattern of several great players, including the world champions José Capablanca, Mikhail Tal, Bobby Fischer and Garry...
...The legendary Bobby Fischer, who many US fans still consider the all-time No1 ahead of Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen, made his reputation as a global icon by his early stellar performances in the US...
...“For Garry, he’s played in a very competitive era and he’s beaten several generations....
...Back in the 1980s England were three times Olympiad silver medallists behind the Soviet Union led by Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov....
...Arkell is a previous winner, while for Chapman, who floated his company in the dotcom boom and who held Garry Kasparov to 1.5-2.5 in a 2001 match at odds of two pawns and the move, Acqui Terme 2023 was his...
...Long ago, Emanuel Lasker and Max Euwe continued to compete into their sixties, while Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik kept going into their late forties or early fifties....
...The €2mn match in the Kazakh capital Astana began under a cloud due to Carlsen’s abdication and the legendary Garry Kasparov’s verdict that it was an “amputated” event, but the mutual fighting spirit and...
...Current English tournaments often feature a generation clash between established grandmasters who learnt their skills in the eras of Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov, and younger rivals in their teens or...
...Leonard Barden is bang on that this year’s Chess World Championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren is being played in the shadow of the 21st-century’s great champion Magnus Carlsen (Chess...
...England won Olympiad silver medals in 1986 and 1988, while Nigel Short beat Anatoly Karpov to qualify for a world title match against Garry Kasparov, and other English GMs reached the world top 10....
...The Champions Showdown 9LX will feature a rare appearance by Garry Kasparov, the legend who rivals Carlsen as the all-time No1....
...Garry Kasparov, who is for many fans still the all-time No1 ahead of the Norwegian, lost eight games in a row at the Chess 9LX Champions Showdown at St Louis....
...Carlsen may have made a shrewd move in the context of whether he or Garry Kasparov ranks as the greatest player of all time....
...Long ago, during the 1986 world championship match, Garry Kasparov lost three games in a row to Anatoly Karpov, and dismissed one of his aides, Yevgeniy Vladimirov, for allegedly passing information....
...Two of the most celebrated games in chess history, played 50 years ago when Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky at Reykjavik 1972, and 25 years ago when IBM Deep Blue crushed Garry Kasparov in New York...
...At Linares 1994, Garry Kasparov took back a knight move against Judit Polgar....
...Nigel Short famously lost to Garry Kasparov in 1993, Michael Adams was beaten in the Fide world final in 2004, while Keith Arkell missed the 2014 World Senior crown on tie-break....
...Later he was a trainer and coach who helped Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov and even Garry Kasparov to playing successes....
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