Chess adjourned
NZPA-Reuter Moscow Vasili Smyslov and Garri Kasparov, of the Soviet Union, adjourned the second game of their contest to challenge Anatoly Karpov for the world chess title on the forty-first move yesterday. The adjournment means the match will be continued today. The first game of the 16-game contest ended in a draw on Sunday. Smyslov, playing white, opened with the Tarrasch defence, a classic version of the Queen’s gambit. At the start of the game, both players moved fast in their battle of wits and age, but Smyslov, who turns 63 later this month, forced
Kasparov, at 20 the boy wonder of international chess, to ponder his thirteenth move for 40 minutes after making an unusual move with the king to the king’s rook first square. Chess experts said the move was one seldom seen in international chess competition. Kasparov won back time, however, by the fifteenth move as Smyslov took time to work out his unusual strategy and the time difference narrowed to half an hour. The game was adjourned after both players had made their fortieth move and used approximately two and a half hours each of time.
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