ken@alice.UUCP (Ken Thompson) (04/09/84)
white: Kasparov black: Smyslov event: World Championships Finals result: +-+ 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Qa5 7. Nd2 Bb4 8. Qc2 O-O 9. Be2 e5 10. B:f6 N:f6 11. d:e5 Ne4 12. c:d5 N:c3 13. b:c3 B:c3 14. Rc1 B:e5 15. d:c6 b:c6 kasparov wins the match 8.5 - 4.5
unni@uwvax.ARPA (04/12/84)
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Someone please enlighten me on this series. I came to the United States
in August last year. Since newspapers and TV here cover only politics, ball-
games and soaps, I have been completely out of touch with chess news till I
got this access to the net.
Last August, the situation was as follows:
After the quarter-finals, the line-up was
Gerry Kasparov vs Viktor Korchnoi at Pasadena,
Vassily Smyslov vs Zoltan Ribli at Abu Dhabi ( or thereabouts )
For some inscrutable reason of their own, the soviets protested the venues
at the last moment (citing the "heat" and the unfriendly-to-soviets atmos-
phere ), and refused to play. The FIDE president, after several attempts to
persuade the soviets to reconsider, FORFEITED BOTH THE MATCHES ( to Korchnoi
and Ribli respectively).
What has happened since then? Why was the forfeiture revoked? When were
the matches played? What were the results?
I shall be grateful to anybody who can post the reply ( or mail it to me ).
Shankar Unni
(unni@wisc-rsch.arpa).