Going further back in time - before the split title, thus 1980s including 1990 - Kasparov and Karpov were big sandwich lovers. Also in different versions, two or even three wins for one player before the other one came back in the match. It happened in all of their matches but the first one - which had been abandoned after five wins for Karpov, then three wins for Kasparov (and 40 draws in 48 games).
These were also closely matched players (Kasparov never dominated in these WCh matches) with different styles. Of course longer matches had different dynamics, they also tended to include short draws and nobody complained at the time - at least not on the Internet.
I didn't include the 1948-1990 matches because everyone of them, if only by virtue of their length, featured sandwich sandwiches except for the unfinished 1984/5 battle. (Even the "Massacre in Merano".) We could note, though, that *none* of Kasparov's three matches during the divided era had a sandwich - not the "It will be Short and it will be short" match, nor the Anand match, nor finally his shutout at the hands of Kramnik that ended his era.
Going further back in time - before the split title, thus 1980s including 1990 - Kasparov and Karpov were big sandwich lovers. Also in different versions, two or even three wins for one player before the other one came back in the match. It happened in all of their matches but the first one - which had been abandoned after five wins for Karpov, then three wins for Kasparov (and 40 draws in 48 games).
These were also closely matched players (Kasparov never dominated in these WCh matches) with different styles. Of course longer matches had different dynamics, they also tended to include short draws and nobody complained at the time - at least not on the Internet.
I didn't include the 1948-1990 matches because everyone of them, if only by virtue of their length, featured sandwich sandwiches except for the unfinished 1984/5 battle. (Even the "Massacre in Merano".) We could note, though, that *none* of Kasparov's three matches during the divided era had a sandwich - not the "It will be Short and it will be short" match, nor the Anand match, nor finally his shutout at the hands of Kramnik that ended his era.