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Article: Chess
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 6, 1995
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The semi-finals of the Fide world championship will begin this
afternoon in Sanghi Nagar, India, with the title-holder, Anatoly
Karpov, playing against Boris Gelfand and Gata Kamsky meeting
Valery Salov. The winners will contest a title match lat er
thisyear.
This is the first time in the history of the Fide championship
that the reigning champion has been required to join in the
semi-finals, rather than waiting for a sole challenger to emerge
from the long cycle of eliminators. That Karpov must do so is a
hangover from the turmoil of 1993, when the PCA took the
Kasparov-Short match out of Fide's control.
The Karpov-Timman match, held to fill the vacant Fide throne,
had the respectability ...