Candidates chess: A champ's death, Cold War drama and roulette rising
Hindustan TimesThe Candidates tournament that will take place in Toronto from April 3-22 and feature five Indian players has a storied past. After Alekhine’s death, governing body Fide organised a World Championship match in The Hague to determine a new world champion. Battle of Curacao: Draws, drama & the Cold War At the height of the Cold War, eight of the world’s best chess players landed on the tiny Caribbean Island of Curacao for a Candidates tournament that ran for two months. In his book on the match ‘Curacao 1962 – The Battle of Chess Minds that Shook the Chess World’, Jan Timman wrote of Fischer and compatriot Pal Benko coming to blows over the services of a second and Fischer lodging an official protest with the tournament committee suggesting that Benko be fined/expelled from the event. Fischer – he eventually played a World Championship a decade after Curacao – alleged that the top three Soviet players in the tournament, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres and Efim Geller, worked out short, pre-arranged draws amongst themselves so that they could focus their energies on him.
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