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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post alana goyal @alanaagoyal Article See new posts Conversation Will Manidis @WillManidis End Game Play 92 308 2.2K 787K It is 1985. Garry Kasparov sits across from Anatoly Karpov in Moscow. It is Game 24. This is the second time the two men would meet. The first, the year prior, ran forty-eight games over five months before FIDE president Florencio Campomanes controversially ended it with no result. Karpov was leading 5-3 but visibly deteriorating, had lost something like twenty-five pounds, and looked like he was dying over the board. By the time Kasparov sits down for the rematch these two have been locked in a single unbroken psychological war for over a year. The score is 12-11. Kasparov needs a draw to win. Kasparov is twenty-two. He has spent a meaningful fraction of those years preparing openings. His choice is the

It is 1985. Garry Kasparov sits across from Anatoly Karpov in Moscow. It is Game 24. This is the second time the two men would meet. The first, the year prior, ran forty-eight games over five months before FIDE president Florencio Campomanes controversially ended it with no result. Karpov was leading 5-3 but visibly deteriorating, had lost something like twenty-five pounds, and looked like he was dying over the board. By the time Kasparov sits down for the rematch these two have been locked in a single unbroken psychological war for over a year. The score is 12-11. Kasparov needs a draw to…

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