World Chess Championship 1985 36 and move 40. Kasparov won the World Championship after Karpov resigned on move 42. The match was played as the best of 24 games. If it had ended 12-12, Karpov would have retained his title. World Chess Championship 1985 The 1985 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in Moscow from September 3 to November 9, 1985. Kasparov won, to become the thirteenth and youngest world champion at the age of 22. It is difficult to view the 1985 World Chess Championship in isolation, following as it did only 7 months after the highly controversial
World Amateur Chess Championship World Amateur Chess Championship The World Amateur Chess Championship is a tournament organised by the World Chess Federation, FIDE. FIDE intended to promote amateur chess play by holding championship tournaments linked to the Olympic Games, but only two events were held. The first championship was held the year that FIDE was founded, at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. This is considered the unofficial first Chess Olympiad, and is the only Olympiad that was an individual event. The second championship was held at the 1928 Summer Olympics in The Hague, in conjunction with the 2nd Chess Olympiad. Chess has never