[blind-chess] Chess Article #41 Clash of the Titans

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:05:28 -1000 (HST)

Chess Article #41
Clash of the Titans - Battle of two World Chess Champions
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In 2004, two former world chess champions, Anatoly Karpov and Susan
Polgar met for an intergender chess match known as the "Clash of
the Titans". The battle of two world champions took place during
one September weekend in Lindsborg, Kansas, and consisted of two
rapid chess games, two blitz chess games and two Fischer Random
Chess games. The final score was a 3 - 3 tie.

Battle of the Genders

Although it was publicized as the first chess match held between
chess champions of opposite sexes, the Clash of the Titans was
Susan Polgar's, Judit Polgar's older sister and the first woman to
qualify for the World Chess Championship, second taking part in an
intergender chess match. The first one held in 2003, a year before
the Clash of the Titans and 30 years after The Battle of the Sexes
tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, in which the
female tennis champion defeated the 1940s tennis star.

The 2003 Battle of the Genders chess match featured Grandmaster and
3 times Women's World Chess Champion Susan Polgar, Grandmaster and
former USSR Chess Champion and US Chess Champion Boris Gulko, and
Grandmaster Alex Stripunsky, a former US Open and Grand Prix
Champion. Both competition ended with Polgar's victory in the score
of 2-0, proving she can beat national champions. But Anatoly Karpov
was of completely different level.

Anatoly Karpov

Born in 1951 in the former Soviet Union, Anatoly Karpov was the
World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985, succeeding Bobby Fischer
and preceded by Garry Kasparov. In 1993, he succeeded his longtime
rival Kasparov and regained the FIDE World Chess Championship
title.

Clash of the Titans Results

On the first day of the Clash of the Titans chess match, the two
World Chess Champions played two games of rapid chess with time
control of 25 minutes, plus 5 seconds increment in front of a crowd
of about 500 eager spectators. The first game, in which Polgar
played White and Karpov Black, ended with a tie; the second game
ended in Karpov's win. The second day started out with two Fischer
Random games with time control of 15 minutes for all moves; Polgar
won the first game but lost the second one. The partial score was
now 21/2 - 11/2 to Karpov.

The historic chess match ended with a couple of blitz chess games
with time control of 5 minutes. The first game out of the two was
a draw, so Karpov lead continued, leaving a gap of a whole point
between them, ruling the option of a victory to the former Women's
World Chess Champions. The last game ended in Polgar's win. Thus,
the Clash of the Titans - Battle of two World Champions was
resulted in a tie of 3 - 3, and was marked as an important landmark
in Women's chess.
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