The Candidate tournament in 1971 was the ideal tournament for Fischer. No one had thought that he would win the tournament so miraculously. He defeated Taimanov and Larsen with the identical perfect score 6-0, and defeated the previous world champion Petrosian in the final with an overwhelming advantage of 6.5-2.5. And now, the whole Soviet …
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The Cold War was a fight without head-on clashes. Had there been a real war, the nuclear weapons of the two superpowers would have taken billions of lives, and brought the earth endless devastating catastrophes. It had to be a contest for strength, where the United States and the Soviet Union competed for everything: spaceflight, …
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Chess engines are improving rapidly. In 1985, the World Champion Kasparov played against 32 chess computers and won all games. But in 1997, a supercomputer called Deep Blue challenged Kasparov and defeated him with difficulties. Kasparov recollected that he felt confused when sitting in front of the computer. He was not able to look into …
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“My move gave Karpov a clever defense and suddenly he was one move from reclaiming his title. But his hurried response also proved second best, although our mutual exchange of errors would not be discovered until well after the game,” Garry Kasparov recollected. This was the last round of the fourth match he played against …
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ZUGZWANG, Peter Kokol s.p.
Chess Education and Services
Ob potoku 11
2212 Šentilj v Slov. Goricah
Slovenia
