However, a weakness in Karpov's match style came out, and this proved to be decisive when he later faced Garry Kasparov in 1984. Each of the first two matches with Korchnoi followed exactly the same pattern -- Karpov took a seemingly decisive lead, after which Korchnoi fought back against all expectations, but then Karpov pulled out a victory
Kasparov's immortal is a chess game played by Garry Kasparov as White against Veselin Topalov as Black at the Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee Chess Tournament 1999 chess tournament. [1] This is one of Kasparov's most famous games; it is considered a masterpiece and Chess.com has listed it as the No. 1 chess game ever played. [2] [3]Between 1993 and 2006, Anatoly Karpov, Alexander Khalifman, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, and Topalov won the title of FIDE "world champion." Having not defeated Kasparov or Kramnik in match play, however, the public -- and probably the players themselves -- did not consider that they were the "legitimate" world
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