It is tempting to present the Carlsen-Karjakin tussle in world chess championship as a clash between east and west. Thankfully times have changedFrom Wednesday night chess lovers can finally get some sleep. The world chess championship, which has been gripping chess fans for three weeks, with some games lasting seven hours or more, must be decided in New York on Wednesday. More than two decades ago the Soviet grandmasters Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov played a match that lasted for more than five months, and even then wasn’t finished, the world governing body decreeing that the players’ health was in …read more
Source: The Guardian
