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25 Years On, Kasparov vs Karpov 2009

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  • 03-10-2009 8:21pm
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    Dave147
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    Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov will renew their rivalry at the board in Valencia, Spain tomorrow to mark the 25th anniversary of their first world championship match. They will play two days of two rapid games each and a third day with eight blitz games. The official site is here. Being a Spanish chess site we can pretty much assume it will be un wreck de tren. [There are reports of the official site being "hacked," as apparently some people are getting an ad page. But that's just a host's parking placeholder, not a malicious act. They either moved servers very recently, screwed up DNS propagation, or someone in the chain of registrar-host-server admin screwed it up or set a very slow TTL. If it's just a recent server move it will fix itself as the world's DNS servers update their caches. Try a hard browser refresh, too. Not to be paranoid, but there's a chance this sort of behavior could be caused by a DDOS attack on the site (common against Kasparov's political news sites like the one I run), but no way to know that from the outside.] Let's just hope the live games function. Both players give simuls on Monday evening. The play dates are the 22-24 and the games begin quite late, 7pm local time, 1pm EDT. Rapid time control is the standard 25'+5" and the blitz is 5'+2".

    link: http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/2009/09/25-years-on-kasparov-vs-karpov-2009.htm

    If anyone's interested look up jrobichess' video's on youtube as he analyses the first two blitz games between the two. Seems like Kasparov has a good edge over Karpov.

    Just thought I'd post it up if anyone's interested.

    The article is from September so afaik the games have already been played.


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