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 González de Clavijo Ruy González de Clavijo Ruy González de Clavijo (died 2 April 1412) was a Castilian traveller and writer. In 1403-05 Clavijo was the ambassador of Henry III of Castile to the court of Timur, founder and ruler of the Timurid Empire. A diary of the journey, perhaps based on detailed notes kept while traveling, was later published in Spanish in 1582 ("Embajada a Tamorlán") and in English in 1859 ("Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour at Samarcand AD 1403-6"). Clavijo, a nobleman of Madrid and chamberlain to the king, set sail from