In 1997, the newly elected FIDE President Kyrsan Ilyumzhinov introduced a completely new system of determining the FIDE World Champion. Instead of the „normal“ qualifying cycle that led to Karpov – Kamsky match two years…
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Karpov – Kamsky FIDE World Championship 1996
After Kasparov – Short Classical World Championship and Karpov – Timman FID World Championship matches in 1993, chess world gained two separate world champions. The schism caused chaos in the Chess World, as for the…
Kasparov – Anand World Championship 1995
After Kasparov and Short split in 1993, the signs of reconciliation between the Classical World Champion Garry Kasparov and FIDE were nowhere to be seen. The chess world continued to have two simultaneous World Champions;…
Karpov – Timman FIDE World Championship 1993
In 1993, Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short decided to break away from FIDE and play their World Championship match under the auspice of the newly formed Professional Chess Association. In response, FIDE decided to strip…
Kasparov – Short World Championship 1993
In 1993, a dramatic series of events happened that would change the course of the modern chess history once and for all. After beating Boris Gelfand, Jan Timman and Anatoly Karpov in Candidates match, young…
Kasparov – Karpov World Championship Match 1990
After the controversial decision to seed Anatoly Karpov directly into the final of the 1987 World Championship Qualifying Cycle, for the next World Championship Cycle FIDE decided to alter its decision and to reserve him…
Kasparov – Karpov World Championship Match 1987
After the endless Kasparov – Karpov battles in 1984, 1985, 1986, the time has come to organize the next World Championship cycle. However, due to the clause that granted Karpov the right to return match…
Kasparov – Karpov World Championship Match 1986
The regulations of the 1985 World Chess Championship Match between Karpov and Kasparov included a special clause – should Karpov lose his title, he would be granted a return match. This clause, confirmed at the…
Kasparov – Karpov World Championship Match 1985
After the abrupt finish of the previous World Championship Match in February, 1985, a new match between Kasparov and Karpov was to begin in September 1985. The initial score was set to 0-0 and the…
Kasparov – Karpov World Championship Match 1984
After his successful title defence against Korchnoi in 1981, it appeared Karpov would have no equal for a long time. The old generation was fading slowly, but surely, and it seemed that it would take…
Karpov – Korchnoi World Championship Match 1981
(Cover photo credit: Douglas Griffin Twitter) After the nail-biting defeat at Karpov’s hands in the controversial 1978 World Championship match in Baguio City, Viktor Korchnoi was seeded directly in the quarter-final phase of the Candidates…
Mikhail Botvinnik Best Games
The patriarch Mikhail Botvinnik, the sixth world champion, is widely regarded as the “most instructive chess player ever” (you heard it here first). And indeed, in a number of his games, he exerted his plans…