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Monday, January 28, 2008
Jan Timman question
Jan Timman lost a FIDE world championship match to Anatoly Karpov in 1993, a match played in four different cities. But to whom did he lose a world championship match played in St Petersburg in 1980?
I'll hazard a guess at Kortchnoi?
ReplyDeleteAnd you will be worng.
ReplyDeletegazza?
ReplyDeleteworld youth championship or somesuch?
Nope.
ReplyDeleteDid St Petersburg exist in 1980?
ReplyDeleteRichard
Now isn't that an interesting question....
ReplyDeleteIs it a play of some kind? Don't make me google this...
ReplyDeleteNot bad at all!
ReplyDeleteIn fact the answer is Melekh Gaystik of the Einstein Chess Club of Sitka, in Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union.