This was the last match between these two chess legends. When was this match taken and what was the final score?
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This was the last match between these two chess legends. When was this match taken and what was the final score?
Karpov won. I think it was in 2002.
Karpov won 2.5-1.5 in this 2002 New-York Rapid match.
It’s shown in the “Gane Over” movie.
“This was the last match between these two chess legends.”
Impossible. This was the last:
“23.08.2006 – The chess event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse featured Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Kortschnoi and Judit Polgar, playing an exhibition blitz tournament. It was won by Kasparov and Karpov.”
She said match, not games or tournaments.
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We may never see two chess players of such enormous skill doing battle against each other gain. Too bad chess fans were denied Fischer vs Karpov 1975. That would have been equally as compelling. The first match between Karpov and Kasparov saw Karpov adopt the dubious strategy of after winning 5 games (6 would win the match) waiting for a Kasparov blunder to hand Karpov the championship. It backfired and the rest is history.
Karpov and Kasparov were surprisingly close in rating. If it weren’t for Karpov, Kasparov would have been head and shoulders ahead of the next highest rated player.
Their personal game record is also surprisingly close. Kasparov is something like +3 out of 100+ games (IIRC).