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20 years ago: Anand and Karpov fight for the World Championship

1/6/2018 – Twenty years ago this week, on January 2, 1998, Viswanathan Anand and Anatoly Karpov began their match for the FIDE World Championship in Lausanne, Switzerland — under peculiar circumstances. Anand had qualified for the match by winning the knock-out tournament in Groningen but then had to go immediately to Lausanne to play for the title — without a break or time for preparation.

McShane masters the Masters in Lausanne

9/24/2004 – England's Luke McShane has made the most of his last years of eligibility for the Lausanne Young Masters in Switzerland. He repeated his 2003 victory ahead of seven other of the world's top under-21 players. In the final KO round he defeated Mamedyarov for the title. Pics and report.
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