World Championship Columnists

Back in the mid-1990s, both Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov -- bitter rivals at the time -- wrote separate columns for the USCF's Chess Life (CL). I mentioned Karpov's column in last week's post, Wayback to Chess.net (December 2022).

I've never studied these columns, even though they might contain interesting material for my World Chess Championship site (WCC; see link on the right). Following is a table overviewing the content of both columns.

CL	p.	Title	Notes
Kasparov, Fighting Chess, Chess Life
1993-01	6	Opening innovation	see also cover
1993-02	13	Local Searchings	KK5, g.11
1993-03	10	Natural Suspicions	opening refutation
1993-04	14	Battle with the Viewers	Spanish TV Channel 1
1993-05	10	Battle with the Viewers (cont.)
1993-06	12	Battle with the Viewers, Part III
1993-07	16	Battle with the Viewers (concluded)
1993-08	40	The Bloodless Revolution	PCA; see also 'Interview with Bob Rice'
1993-09	12	Simuls in My Life
1993-10	14	Simuls in My Life (Part II)	1984 London/New York; 1985 Hamburg
1993-11	18	Simuls in My Life (Part III)	1987 Zurich; 1989 Evry
1993-12	14	Simuls in My Life (Part IV)	1992 Baden-Baden
1994-01	6	Simuls in My Life (Part V)	1992 Buenos Aires
1994-03	12	Looking Back	1993 Kasparov – Short; Opening prep; 1.e4; g.3
1994-04	18	Looking Back, Part II	(cont.)
1994-05	12	Looking Back, Part III	1.d4; g.9
1994-06	12	Looking Back, Part IV	GK Black; 1.e4 c5; g.2,4
Karpov, Grandmaster Musings, Chess Life
1994-10	42	The Caro-Kann
1994-11	14	Dortmund 1994
1994-12	12	Sanghi-Nagar	Semi-finals
1995-01	8	Sanghi-Nagar, Part II
1995-02	12	Opening Survey: Tilburg 1994
1995-03	12	Opening Survey: Tilburg 1994, Part II
1995-04	12	Exploring the Sicilian, Part I	Buenos Aires Sicilian Thematic, 1994
1995-05	34	Exploring the Sicilian, Part II	(ditto)
1995-06	21	Sanghi-Nagar: The Semi-Finals	Good intro; aka Finals [leading to title match]
1995-07	34	Sanghi-Nagar, Part II
1995-09	10	Linares, Part I
1995-10	16	Linares, Part II
1995-11	32	Melody Amber	4th
1996-01	36	Melody Amber, Part II
1996-02	24	Melody Amber, Part III
1996-04	20	Dos Hermanas, Part I	“Before we discuss my match with Kamsky...”
1996-05	28	Dos Hermanas, Part II; Groningen, Part I
1996-06	32	Groningen, Part II	see note on PCA
1996-07	38	Groningen, Part III
1996-08	26	Groningen, Part IV
1996-10	38	Melody Amber I
1996-11	38	Melody Amber II
1997-01	44	Melody Amber III
1997-02	32	Biel, Part I
1997-03	19	Biel Schachfestival, Part II
1997-05	22	Las Palmas 1996
1997-06	24	Vienna Schachfestival
1997-09	36	Dos Hermanas, 1997
1997-10	38	Dos Hermanas, Part II
1997-11	40	Biel Schachfestival, Part I
1997-12	48	Biel, Part II
1998-01	21	Biel, Part III
1998-04	73	Lausanne, 1998	Karpov - Anand; gms. 1, 2, 7, 8
1998-05	42	A Magical Weekend in Parsippany	Henley, Karpov, Krush
1998-06	30	The Teams, Part II	(ditto)

The table might be more appropriate incorporated into the WCC site itself, but I can always move it later. In the meantime, I'll use it as the basis for a post or two on my WCC blog.