World Chess Championship

Yep.

Chess World Championship is basically a proxy war, USA versus USSR.

Yes.

Both sides are trying to put their best and brightest, specifically the Soviets, to be like, "Hey, we are-

His second bought him less than two.

In 1984, Anatoly Karpov played Garry Kasparov for the World Chess title.

The first player to win six games would take the title.

Draws didn't count toward the six.

He began to make bad moves.

Kasparov started to win.

Citing both players' health, the head of World Chess stopped the match after five months with no winner.

Karpov's lead had shrunk from 5-0 to 5-3.

Yeah, I'm surprised as well, especially 'cause there's been a lot of build-up to this test series, um, and particularly with what happened all those years ago.

Um, and two great teams like, you know, South Africa are, they, they're the World Chess Championship holders, Australia number one in the world.

So y- yeah, you'd think it'd be, you know, highly, uh, attended.

But, um, yeah, it's, it's a bit disappointing to see.

Set during the Cold War, Chess is an iconic musical where power and passion collide.

It's America versus Russia in the World Chess Championship-

It always is

... where espionage and romance are as complicated and exhilarating as the game itself.

No more.

It is often said of Garry Kasparov that his intellectual abilities are so strong that they have enabled him to conquer two worlds as world chess champion and democracy champion.

Kasparov became the youngest world chess champion at age 22 in November 1985 when he defeated his longtime rival Anatoly Karpov.

He lost an important match to a computer called Big Blue, which has implications for the future of technology and artificial intelligence.

Kasparov dominated the game until March 2005 when he retired to become a politician and democracy proponent, becoming a leading opponent of autocratic systems, especially Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Most of those sponsors are going to be looking at the numbers and, and how many eyeballs they, they, they have on their products and, and their companies.

So, um, I mean, th-this, this is just me perhaps speculating a little bit, and maybe that's not the case, but I do feel like most of, most of the companies and most of the, the tournaments that are organizing big events, now we have the Total Chess Championship, Total World Chess Championship, or whatever it's called, as well.

So I, I feel all of these are competing for, for, uh, for more eyes on, on their product and their tournament.

I, I do think they're interested as well.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, even though I am sometimes a bit of a purist and, uh, and it wouldn't be how I would present an event perhaps, but, you know, that's, that's how-

No, it's, it's, it's, it's a different, it's a different one and again, um, different tournaments appeal to different audiences.

I'm sure the total World Chess Championship is going to look completely different than this one, for example.

Uh, that's another new one coming up.

And alwa- obviously, always talk with your, uh, investment professional before making any considera- considerations or implementing anything, um, i-into your investment strategy before, um, going into investing.

Um, Barbara, before I let you introduce yourself, we have our news topic, um, of the day that we're gonna cover, which is the 2026 Che- World Chess Championship that's actually taking place in Geneva this year.

So Jamie, maybe you can enlighten, uh, our listeners on some local, local but international Swiss news.

Yeah, absolutely.