A brief look back at the history of chess, the cold war chess years and what they meant to geopolitics. The WSJ uses the 25th anniversary match of Karpov and Kasparov's first world-title bout this past week in Spain to take us on a tour of their rivalry, as well as detailing Bobby Fisher's brief break on the stranglehold the Soviets maintained on the world title. Today the top contenders to the world title are no longer predominantly Russian. Thursday, October 1, 2009
Chess, anyone?
A brief look back at the history of chess, the cold war chess years and what they meant to geopolitics. The WSJ uses the 25th anniversary match of Karpov and Kasparov's first world-title bout this past week in Spain to take us on a tour of their rivalry, as well as detailing Bobby Fisher's brief break on the stranglehold the Soviets maintained on the world title. Today the top contenders to the world title are no longer predominantly Russian. 
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