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
Spanish influence on Filipino culture Arroyo, the fourteenth President of the Philippines and a hispanophone, reintroduced the study of Spanish into the state school system. There are currently around 3 million Spanish speakers residing in the country, of whom a minority still speak the language in public. The name of the Philippines comes from the king of Spain Philip II. It was given by the Spanish explorer Ruy Lopez de Villalobos who named the islands of Samar and Leyte "Las Islas Felipinas" (The Philippine Islands), during his expedition in 1543. Throughout the colonial period, the name Felipinas (Philippines) was used, and became the official name