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Chess titans Kasparov and Karpov meet again — 25 years on
Gone were the little Soviet flags, but it was clear that the old rivalry between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov was still there.
Gone were the little Soviet flags, but it was clear that the old rivalry between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov was still there.
So the king is dead, the game over. Bobby Fischer — perhaps the greatest player in the history of chess, certainly the most charismatic and controversial — has died of kidney failure in his adoptive home, Iceland. But Fischer the chess genius died more than 30 years ago.