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Apr 16, 2023Liked by Dennis Monokroussos

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.

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