World Chess Championship 1984
The World Chess Championship 1984 was held between the world chess champion Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov his challenger of 10 September 1984 to 15 February 1985 in Moscow. After 48 games without a decision by the competition of FIDE president Florencio Campomanes was canceled and seven months later as World Chess Championship in 1985 with the new regulations, the result of the aborted fight was not included in the new match. Kasparov won that fight and was at age 22 the youngest world champion in chess.
- 3.1 History
- 3.2 Results Table
Prehistory
Karpov was to defend in 1975 by the refusal of Bobby Fischer, his title, has been appointed without a fight from the FIDE world champion. Twice - in 1978 and 1981 - he defended his title against Viktor Korchnoi, which was able to prevail in each of the candidates fighting.
Kasparov became the focus of wide chess public, as he had taken part in a championship of the USSR in 1978 at the age of only 15 years - as the youngest player in history. By 1984 he had fought his way to the world class and could confidently qualify as a challenger Karpov.
Qualification cycle 1982-1984
Interzonal tournaments
Three inter-zonal tournaments were held. Play the first two players qualified for the Candidates Tournament. Kasparov, then 19, won the Moscow Interzonal with strong 1.5 points ahead of Alexander Beliavsky. Ribli won the tournament in Las Palmas before Smyslov. , And the interzonal tournament in Toluca was won jointly by Portisch and Torre.
Candidates tournament
The six qualifiers from the interzonal tournaments met in knock-out fights on Korchnoi and Hübner, the finalists of the previous candidates for the World Cup finals in 1981. Kasparov put through.
World cup
Course
The competition was first dominated by Karpov. He fought tough against Kasparov's imaginative, energetic attacking chess as his previous opponents and countered inaccuracies of his young opponent audible. After nine games led Karpov at six targeted profits games 4-0.
Kasparov subsequently changed his race tactics and tried to hold the games draw. Draw - games were not counted in the competition. That was successful. Only after a long series draw Karpov was able to achieve the 5-0 in the 27th game, but the sixth point he did not succeed. In the 32nd game, Kasparov won his first victory - and after another draw series he won against the exhausted Karpov in a row, 47th and 48th game.
The Chairman of the World Chess Federation FIDE, Florencio Campomanes, then broke the competition on February 15, 1985 with no result from foul. As an argument he led his intention to protect the health of players. The contest had now lasted 48 games - twice as long as is customary in from 1951 to 1972 mode.
Results Table
Nachgeschichte
The race was rescheduled - this time limited to 24 games. Kasparov won this competition in November 1985 and became the 13th World Chess Champion.
To mark the 25th anniversary of the match Karpov and Kasparov played from 22 to 24 September 2009 in Valencia, a quick and blitz chess match. Kasparov won the rapid chess match with 3:1 and blitz chess match with 6:2 points.