LEGENDARY Russian Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov is in Baguio City, returning to the site where he won the 1978 World Chess Championship. Karpov returned 45 years after he defeated fellow Russian Viktor ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia is revisiting the Philippines where he played one of his most memorable world championship battles. And a familiar face will ...

The name of Russian master player Anatoly Karpov is well-known all over the world. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985, World Chess champion, a three-time FIDE World Champion in ...

MOSCOW -- A conflict surrounding the Russian candidate for the presidency of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has been simmering for weeks. At the end of April, Kremlin aide Arkady Dvorkovich, one of ...

In the 1980s, Garry Kasparov was taking the world by storm which reminds me of a time in the 1920s when Jose Raul Capablanca of Cuba was beating everyone in chess. The New York Times reported that ...

Thirty years ago, in September 1993, two separate World Championship matches were played in the Netherlands and England for the first and only time in chess history. It was a controversial occasion ...

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 ...