The World Chess Championship 1984 was a match between challenger Garry Kasparov and defending champion Anatoly Karpov. After 5 months and 48 games, the match was eventually abandoned in controversial circumstances with Karpov leading five wins to three (with 40 draws), and replayed in the World Chess Championship 1985.
Three Interzonal tournaments were held. The top two finishers in each qualified. Kasparov, aged 19 years old at the time, won the...
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The World Chess Championship 1984 was a match between challenger Garry Kasparov and defending champion Anatoly Karpov. After 5 months and 48 games, the match was eventually abandoned in controversial circumstances with Karpov leading five wins to three (with 40 draws), and replayed in the World Chess Championship 1985.
Three Interzonal tournaments were held. The top two finishers in each qualified. Kasparov, aged 19 years old at the time, won the Moscow Interzonal by a convincing 1.5 point margin ahead of Alexander Beliavsky. Zoltan Ribli won the Las Palmas first Interzonal ahead of 62-year-old former World Champion Vasily Smyslov, and the Toluca Interzonal was won jointly by Lajos Portisch and Eugenio Torre.
The six Interzonal qualifiers were joined by Victor Korchnoi and Robert Hübner, the Candidates finalists from the previous cycle (World Chess Championship 1981). The eight players participated in a series of knockout matches. The winner was Garry Kasparov.
The Smyslov–Hübner...
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