Garry kasparov vs vladimir kramnik biography

By 1990, Garry Kasparov had done what nobody had done before since the creation of the world championship: defended his title multiple times against the clearly best challenger. All in all, he and Anatoly Karpov played five quite grueling matches between 1984 and 1990 -- an unprecedented amount.

After the aborted first match, Kasparov won in 1985 and then a rematch in 1986. In 1987, he narrowly saved his title by drawing the match, winning "to order" in the very last game. Finally, he had a short break, but in 1990 Karpov was back, and Kasparov again won by a narrow margin, 12.5 to 11.5.

In 1993, Karpov was finally defeated before he became Kasparov's challenger, by Nigel Short.

Short and Kasparov decided to leave FIDE, finding their own sponsors for the match and creating the Professional Chess Association.

As a result, FIDE stripped Kasparov of his title and ran its own world championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman, who were the players most recently defeated