Classical World Chess Championship 1995 September 1994, and the final in Las Palmas in March 1995. The final was played at the World Trade Center, on the 107th floor of the South Tower. The first player to reach 10½ points would be the winner. The match began with eight consecutive draws, a record for the World Chess Championship until the 2018 Carlsen–Caruana match. In game 9 Anand, with white, broke through Kasparov's Sicilian Scheveningen defence to win. Kasparov hit back immediately in game 10, with a novelty in the Ruy Lopez Open Defence. Game 11 was arguably the turning point in the match. Kasparov sprung
Ruy Pérez Ponce de León was there given eventual lordship over the city after its conquest from the Moors. Ruy died in 1295, two days after being injured in the Battle of Iznalloz against the forces of the Kingdom of Granada under Muhammad II, in a small town of the same name north of Granada. Ruy Pérez Ponce de León Ruy Pérez Ponce de León or Rodrigo Pérez Ponce de León (b. ? - d. 1295) was a Spanish noble of the House of Ponce de León, in the service of the Kingdom of Castile. He was the 15th Grand Master of the Order of