World Chess Championship 1990 Soviet Union a year later. Kasparov was indeed allowed to play with a small Russian tri-color at the table. Kasparov, Garry 2010. "Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess, Part 4: Kasparov v Karpov 1988-2009." London: Everyman Chess. World Chess Championship 1990 The World Chess Championship 1990 was played between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. It was the fifth and final Kasparov–Karpov championship match, Kasparov winning by a single point. Three Interzonals were held in the summer of 1987, with 16 to 18 players playing in each and the top three scorers from each qualifying. In the first tournament in Subotica, Sax,
World Senior Chess Championship the men's section. So far one male World Chess Champion – Vasily Smyslov – has gone on to win the World Senior Championship as well (at age of 70 in 1991). He has also been the first Senior World Chess Champion ever. Nona Gaprindashvili is the only female World Chess Champion to obtain the World Senior title as well. The oldest World Senior Champion, male or female - before the split in two different age categories has been made - is Viktor Korchnoi who won the title at age of 75 and a half (in 2006, his only participation). Vlastimil