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The recent 12-game fast-play match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Valencia, Spain, raises an obvious question: Why would Karpov consent to such an event? Kasparov, after four years of inactivity as a player, has the second-highest rating in the world, while Karpov has slipped out of the top 100.

[Doug]

It's called class.