The greatest chess event of recent times, the matching of a computer against a human player in 1996, had a male star, the Russian Garry Kasparov.

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Apparently, the same blowups and bad behavior you can catch at your local youth sports event are also evident in chess.

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After losing to a supercomputer at chess, Garry Kasparov created a team event with machines and humans working together against a single computer.

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Then Mr Ilyuzhinov stepped in to re-unite the chess world by merging the rival world championship cycles into one big knock-out event.

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