Moscow, 5th September 1985. The 2nd game of the second World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov is in progress on the stage of the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

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Anatoly Karpov 🆚 Garry Kasparov

Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1985), Moscow URS, rd 2, Sep-05
Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen. Classical Variation (B84)

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John Hilbert, the renowned American chess historian, remembers Dale Brandreth (1931-2019). https://bit.ly/2kF5kNG

“It is my style to take my opponent and myself on to unknown grounds. A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.”

🔸 David Bronstein

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Осень шахматиста. Михаил Ботвинник (1990)

A 1990 Soviet TV documentary on Botvinnik

Ju Wenjun 🇨🇳, Aleksandra Goryachkina 🇷🇺, and Valentina Gunina 🇷🇺 grabbed the lead in Skolkovo after the first day.

In round 1, they defeated Pia Cramling 🇸🇪, Antoaneta Stefanova 🇧🇬, and Alina Kashlinskaya 🇷🇺 respectively.

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Jeffery Xiong 🇺🇸 was the first player to go through to the Round 2 of #FIDEWorldCup. He defeated Igor Lysyi 🇷🇺 2-0.

Before the tournament, he spent a few days in Moscow to fix the jetlag problem, and came to Khanty-Mansiysk with his father.