Podcast | “Life Under Control”, Episode 5: Karpov-Kasparov: A Tale of Intense Rivalry | Podcast

Life is a choice Podcast Where Leontxo García presents the stories, anecdotes and knowledge accumulated in the 50 years that he has covered the world of chess all over the world, 38 of them in EL PAÍS. The fifth in a series of eight episodes is now available, one of which comes out every Tuesday, and that will let you discover a world the author describes as a “gold mine”. Reason, which has connections to education, literature, artificial intelligence, international politics, or psychology. In short, with life: hence his nickname Podcast.

In this episode, Leontxo García deals with two names united forever by an intense rivalry that they have maintained for decades and, in some aspects, already off the table, that they still hold today. It’s Anatoly Karpov, who has just turned 80 as the undisputed world champion, and Garry Kasparov who seems to have dethroned him. If we limit ourselves to numbers, then only in duels for the World Chess Championship, they played 144 matches, which means more than 500 hours facing each other on stage and thousands more hours thinking about each other under tremendous pressure from all players. And the balance of all this favors Kasparov by only two points.

In the sixth chapter of the series, we deal with Kasparov’s character beyond his competition with Karpov. He became the youngest world champion in history at the age of 22. That was until he turned 41 and set an even more ambitious goal in life, which was to overthrow Vladimir Putin.

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