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Regarding the recently terminated world championship.
Kasparov was getting too close to dethroning Karpov.
The Saturday New York Times had a very complete series
of articles  on the termination. 

It seems that Karpov was believed to be emotionally and
physically exhausted and his play was reflecting this.
At the same time Kasparov who had drawn about 30+ games
against him was gaining strength and winning.

I believe Kasparov was badly 'intimidated' at the beginning
of the match (5-0) and finally steadied himself.  Drew and
a long series and then started winning.  The Soviet Chess
Federation could probably see that their champion was in
real danger of losing the match and had it stopped.  The
last thing they want is Kasparov (who is half Jewish - Soviet
Chess is extremely anti-semitic (Korchnoi, Bronstein, and
numerous other could attest to that)) as world champion
over their 'role model'.

It's interesting that Korchnoi also believes that Karpov was
'protected' by this action (though this is not surprising).
Spassky also felt that the decision to terminate the match
was in showing favoritism to Karpov.  Bent Larsen now is
claiming Kasparov as the World Champion.