Draw in chess
Late sport ]
NZPA-Reuter Baguio (Philippines) The ehamplon, Anatoly Karpov, ana the challenger, Viktor Korchnoi, drew their second game in the world chess championship early this morning (New Zealand time). Karpov offered the draw after playing his twenty-ninth move and Korchnoi, who had started at lightning pace but. failed to make any decisive progress, immediately accepted. Their game lasted 2hr 25min. At the start of the game
Korchnoi, the challenger, launched into a series of quick, fire moves that immediately brought the game alive. Korchnoi took just 4min in the first hour to make 18 moves. The wary champion, battling to interpret Korchnoi’s pre-arranged plan, took 56mln to make his return moves as the game launched into the kind of innovating battle that chess fans had been waiting for.
But after the excitement of the first half, Karpov encouraged several exchanges of pieces to ease his position.
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Press, 21 July 1978, Page 4
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