Chess grandmaster and former world champion Anatoly Karpov, who has waged a highly public campaign in defense of his nomination as Russia's candidate for the presidency of the World Chess Federation, ...

The international chess world descended into chaos and bitter accusations of cheating today with the controversial re-election of the president of the World Chess Federation, who defeated the former ...

Russian-born chess grandmaster and émigré Gennadi “Genna” Sosonko still remembers where he was 40 years ago today, when he ...

It was a distinct privilege for me to meet Russian grandmaster and former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov once in Nassau and subsequently in Curacao. Readers would recall that Karpov became world ...

Two of Russia’s finest chess grandmasters, Anatoliy Karpov, and Viktor Korchnoi, both enlisted the help of parapsychologists during their battle to be world champion in 1978. The match was arguably ...

As I conclude the lengthy Karpov interview discussing only Fischer, I was surprised when Karpov, over dinner in Nassau, noted that Fischer had legions of chess fans in the Soviet Union during his ...

At the corner of Moscow’s Mayakovsky Square and Gorki Street stands the cavernous Chaikovsky Hall. Its stage is a blaze of light so that the eyes of the chess world can concentrate on the battle being ...