The Longest Game: The Five Kasparov — Karpov Matches for the

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The Longest Game The Five Kasparov — Karpov Matches for the World Chess Championship  on September

10,1984, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov appeared on the stage of the Hall of Columns in Moscow for the

first game of their match for the World Chess Championship. The clash between the reigning champion and his

brazen young challenger was highly anticipated, but no one could have foreseen what was in store. In the next six

years they would play five matches for the highest title and create one of the fiercest rivalries in sports history.

The Five Kasparov — Karpov Matches

The first match became front page news worldwide when after five months FIDE President Florencio

Campomanes stepped in to stop the match citing exhaustion of both participants. A new match was staged and

having learned valuable lessons, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion in

history.

The Longest Game

His win was not only hailed as a triumph of imaginative attacking chess, but also as a political victory. The

representative of ‘perestroika’ had beaten the old champion, a symbol of Soviet stagnation. Kasparov defended

his title in three more matches, all of them full of drama. Karpov remained a formidable opponent and the overall

score was only 73-71 in Kasparov’s favour.

for the World Chess Championship

In The Longest  Jan Timman returns to the Kasparov-Karpov matches. He chronicles the many twists and

turns of this fascinating saga, including his behind-the scenes impressions, and takes a fresh look at the games.

Jan Timman is a former World Championship Candidate who rose to the number two spot of the FIDE world

rankings. He is the author of highly acclaimed books such as Curacao 1962 and The Art of the Endgame. His

best-selling Timman’s Titans won the 2017 English Chess Federation Book of the Year Award.

Johan Hut, Noord Hollands Dagblad:

«The ultimate book on Karpov – Kasparov. Jan Timman has again written a monumental history book on a

subject that will continue to capture our imagination.»

International Master Jeroen Bosch, Schaakmagazine:

«Timman, as a top grandmaster, rival and contemporary, is in an excellent position to make sense of the

sometimes chaotic political rumpus, but as an ‘outsider’ he is able to be sufficiently objective. Again a splendid

book from Jan Timman.»

The Longest Game

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