‘No pressure’ — chess chief
NZPA-Reuter Santiago The president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) yesterday denied that Soviet chess authorities had put pressure on him to call off the marathon match for the world title’ last month. “There was no pressure from the Soviet federation,” the FIDE chief, Florencio Campomanes, told a press conference. “No-one puts pressure on Campomanes. I f m not afraid of anyone.” The five-month-old world title match between champion Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov was called off last month with Karpov ahead by five games to three but
with Kasparov having scored two wins in succession.
Many chess writers suggested that the Soviet authorities had pressured Campomanes into ending the match so that their champion would not be beaten in the openended contest.
The first player to score six wins would have won the title. Campomanes issued copies of the referee’s report and of letters and telex messages sent after the match was ended on February 15. These showed that the Soviet federation had proposed a three-month suspension of the match because of fears for the players’ health. But Campomanes decided to abandon it.
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