“I couldn’t come to the Soviet Union, of course. I was an enemy as (far as they were) concerned,” he says in an interview with CNN Sport. “I remember that day very well because I was in Switzerland, ...

MANILA, Philippines — For former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov, the Philippines served as breeding ground for world-class players and helped turn the Asian region into the chess power that it is ...

Silver hair and sharp suits have replaced the fresh faces and Soviet tailoring of 1984 but there was no mistaking the aura surrounding two of the world's greatest chess players, Garry Kasparov and ...

One of the greatest rivalries in the history of chess has resumed as Garry Kasparov takes on Anatoly Karpov in the Spanish city of Valencia. The 12-game rematch is taking place 25 years after the two ...

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 ...