World chess champion Garri Kasparov and challenger Anatoly Karpov, a fellow Russian, played to a draw Monday night in a listless opening of their world championship rematch. Kasparov, 23, playing ...

After 72 games, they are dead even. Gary Kasparov, the world chess champion since Nov. 9, and Anatoly Karpov, former titleholder, have beaten each other eight times and played a record 56 draws in two ...

The 14th game in the world chess championship was adjourned Monday with defending champion Garri Kasparov holding an edge over challenger Anatoly Karpov. Kasparov, playing white, sealed his 41st move.

Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he heard that the 1984-85 World Championship match in Moscow between Garry ...

Garri Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, two good comrades, would seem to have little reason to play the rematch for the world chess championship outside their native Soviet Union. Indeed, when the British ...

Nine games and 25 days in, Karpov had established a seemingly unassailable 4-0 lead. As Kasparov began to get more of a handle on the match, the next 17 games were drawn, before Karpov won again in ...