Chess Game Adjourns; Kasparov Is Favored
LONDON — The second game of the world chess championship was adjourned Wednesday after challenger Anatoly Karpov sealed his 41st move, and experts said that titleholder Gary Kasparov is in a fair position to win. The first game ended in a draw.
Karpov’s move will be opened when play resumes this afternoon.
With both players short of time Wednesday, Kasparov, playing white, infiltrated with a rook into Karpov’s queen’s side, leaving him a pawn ahead in the hard-fought game at adjournment.
British grandmaster Nigel Short, the world’s ninth-ranked player, said Kasparov should win the game if he “plays it right,†although it would not be easy.
Swedish international master Harry Schussler agreed. “It should be†a victory for Kasparov, he said.
In the opening moves Wednesday, Karpov used a variation of the Nimzo-Indian defense.
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