Today in Sports - Week Ahead, March 28 - April 3
2018 — Pernilla Lindberg makes a 30-foot birdie putt on the eighth extra hole to win the ANA Inspiration for her first ...
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Anand brutally snubs Carlsen as he plays ‘pick your favourite’ World Chess Champion
India's greatest chess player, Viswanathan Anand, tried the trending 'pick your favourite' game to reveal his favourite World ...
Playing hockey with Russians would be hypocrisy, not diplomacy
Russia remains a rogue player on the international sporting stage. There’s no reason to start playing games with its athletes ...
The greatest match that never was — when Fischer and Karpov didn’t meet
The history of chess is riddled with missed opportunities.
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Match of the century recalled as chess world mourns Spassky’s passing
Following his loss to Fischer, Spassky bounced back to win the Soviet Championship in 1973. He was defeated in the Candidates matches by Anatoly Karpov, the future world champion.
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Which Indian chess player has achieved World No. 1 ranking?
Also Read: Top five greatest Indian chess players of all-time The other six are: Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov and Magnus Carlsen. This shows that ...
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Boris Spassky (1937-2025): The first universal player who challenged the Cold War chess order
However, he lost in the semifinal of the Candidates Tournament (to determine the challenger to the defending world champion) in 1975 against Anatoly Karpov, the man who would become the champion by ...
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Top five youngest male to become chess World No. 1
Anatoly Karpov displaced Fischer at the top in 1976, at age 24. He maintained his dominance till 1983, before again making a return for a brief duration in 1985. Interestingly, the Russian (after the ...