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THE LISTENER: CHECKMATE BBC Radio 4 - A chequered history of East versus West Eastern Europe has long produced the world's greatest chess players - and with the Cold War at its height, the Soviets had a point to prove
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DANIEL KING The story of the world chess championship begins at
the end of the 19th century. At the height of the British Empire in
the mid-19th century, London was the focus of the chess world. By the
1880s, the most brilliant players, such as Wilhelm Steinitz and
Emanuel Lasker, were emerging in German-speaking central Europe. Many
of them practised the game in the fertile intellectual milieu of the
coffee house.
After defeating the great German player Adolf Anderssen in 1866,
Steinitz modestly proclaimed himself world chess champion. No one had
made such a claim before. A few years later, ...
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