Elder girl was chess champion in Israel and 4th in world chess championship in Duisburg, Germany, 1993.

Even the former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov, who is a hero throughout the former Soviet Union for his years as champion, joined the fight.

Never before have two men played so many times for the championship, and never before have two men so dominated world chess.

Andrei Volokitin is one of the most dangerous players in world chess with the white pieces.

A surprise guest at the party was Mikhail Botvinnik of the Soviet Union, who dominated world chess from the late 1930's to his retirement in 1960.

Veselin Topalov, a 30-year-old Bulgarian grandmaster, has won the world chess championship tournament played in San Luis, Argentina, from Sept. 28 through yesterday.

However, that year he failed to qualify for the junior world chess championship finals in Antwerp (the title was won by Boris Spassky).

His crafty face appears next to that of the players on the "world chess championship T-shirt" - available in black, green or blue - that has been selling briskly for $8.

No, the real inspiration for Indian chess in our time comes from Viswanathan Anand, close to the peak of world chess right now.

The USSR scores an overwhelming victory and would dominate world chess for the next 25 years.