Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess world has been debating why ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
“‘KGB agent’ is a hard definition – that he got some money or some instructions. I don’t think so. But he was on the Soviet side, in all aspects,” he says. Soltis points out that ...
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Putin assembles team of heavyweights to negotiate Ukraine deal
who served with Putin in the Soviet KGB, according to people familiar with situation, who asked not to be identified discussing internal information.