Word: karpov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compared moves used by one opponent--Vivek V. Rao '92--to a game he played years ago in Seville against former world champion Anatoly Karpov...
...When Karpov made that move, I thought about how to respond for 85 minutes," Kasparov said...
...success in a widely publicized game against the more conservative Karpov in 1985 at the age of 22, they say, had a political edge...
...Gabriel Schoenfeld--then a graduate fellow at the Russian Research Center--pointed out in The New York Times in 1984, the succession battle imminent at the time would be one between Karpov, a political "today, and the more individualistic Kasparov. And while Schoenfeld predicted that the Soviet government would back Karpov, Kasparov's success and the very openness with which he criticizes Gorbachev today are a political sign in themselves...
Perestroika has not significantly improved life in the Soviet Union, Kasparov says, calling Gorbachev "the man who has now become a dictator." And he gets in a few digs at Karpov, as well, labelling him "a symbol of the Soviet system...