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CHESS Lubomir Kavalek
Baseball returned triumphantly to Washington last Thursday after 34 years. "Luckily, it is not a national pastime in Russia," joked Garry Kasparov on Friday after he got hit over the head with a wooden chessboard he had just autographed. He was speaking to young political activists in Moscow when the attack occurred. The 13th official world chess champion survived the brush with Russian politics with only a bump. Let's hope his political opponents don't discover baseball bats.
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CHESS Lubomir Kavalek
On Wednesday Garry Kasparov, the world's best player in the last two decades, will turn 42. After he retired from professional competition last month he was asked what his greatest game was. He pointed to his encounter against Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov, played in the Dutch coastal town of Wijk aan Zee in 1999. Later in an interview with his friend Michael Greengard, Kasparov called the game "the best combination ever."
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CHESS Lubomir Kavalek
Vishy Anand, the world's top-rated grandmaster among active players, dominated the 14th Melody Amber tournament in Monaco last week. The Indian superstar scored eight points in 11 games in the blindfold competition and left his nearest rivals two points behind. In the rapid event, Anand scored 7.5 points, edging Alexander Morozevich of Russia by a half point. Anand triumphed over many of the world's best players with a combined score of 15.5 points in 22 games. Morozevich finished second with 13 points.
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CHESS Lubomir Kavalek
Two world champions, who don't play competitive chess anymore, made the headlines last week. Both expressed high opinions about their skills. Last Tuesday, Bobby Fischer was granted Icelandic citizenship, which may protect him from extradition to the United States. Two days later he flew from Japan to his new adopted country. The 24-hour journey ended in the middle of the night at the Reykjavik airport and suggested an extraterrestrial landing. The next day Fischer declared that he does not play the old chess, but added: "Obviously, if I did, I would be the best."
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CHESS Lubomir Kavalek
Garry Kasparov retired from professional competition after he won the tournament in Linares, Spain, this month. You could see it coming when he declared in January that he was through with world championship play. "We have been going to tournaments for 30 years," his mother and closest supporter, Klara, said. Her son was the world's top-rated player for the last two decades. He played eight world championship matches and held the world title for 15 years. It's an amazing feat that may never be surpassed.
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