World Chess Championship 1986

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The 1986 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in London and Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) from July 28 to October 8, 1986. Kasparov won. Anatoly Karpov was already assured of this rematch during his previous year's match, which was won by Garry Kasparov.

Results

The match was played as the best of 24 games. If it ended 12-12, Kasparov would retain his title.

World Chess Championship Match 1986
	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	Points
Garry Kasparov (Soviet Union)	2740	½	½	½	1	0	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	0	0	0	½	½	1	½	½	12½
Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union)	2705	½	½	½	0	1	½	½	0	½	½	½	½	½	0	½	0	1	1	1	½	½	0	½	½	11½

Kasparov won.

References

Kasparov, Garry (2009), Modern Chess: Part 3, Kasparov vs Karpov 1986-1987, Everyman Chess, ISBN 978-1-85744-625-8

External links

1986 World Chess Championship at the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree's Chess Pages

World Chess Championships

Pre-FIDE

1886, 1889, 1890–1891, 1892 (Steinitz)
1894, 1896–1897, 1907, 1908, 1910 (Jan–Feb), 1910 (Nov–Dec) (Lasker)
1921 (Capablanca)
1927, 1929, 1934 (Alekhine)
1935 (Euwe)
1937 (Alekhine)

FIDE

Split title

PCA/Classical	1993, 1995 (Kasparov) 2000, 2004 (Kramnik)
FIDE	1993, 1996, 1998 (Karpov) 1999 (Khalifman) 2000 (Anand) 2002 (Ponomariov) 2004 (Kasimdzhanov) 2005 (Topalov)

FIDE

Other world championships

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