Re: Kasaparov: at last a new champion !

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From: Bill Hery
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1985 03:10

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> 	I am surprised to see all this news about Kasparov being the 
> youngest World Chess Champion. Wasn't Mikhail Tal (or Talj) just 20
> years old when he beat Botvinnik in the World Championship match in 1960?
> 
> 	Enlightenment is called for!

According to Harold Schonberg's 'Grandmasters of Chess' (Lippencott, 1972)
Tal "at the age of twenty three in 1960 became the youngest world chess
champion in history."

Bill Hery

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