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How did Garry Kasparov and FIDE disagree over the world championship in 1993?
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Position of chess pieces at the beginning of a game. The pieces are placed on the two ranks closest to the player. In the closest rank, pieces are arranged from left to right: rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, and rook. In front of that rank, each square has a pawn.
In 1993, the disagreement between Garry Kasparov and the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) centered on the governance and organization of the world championship match. After Nigel Short earned the right to challenge Kasparov for the title, both players chose to break away from FIDE’s authority.12
Together, they formed a rival organization called the Professional Chess Association (PCA) to host their championship match. In response to this move, FIDE disqualified Kasparov and stripped him of his world champion title. FIDE subsequently organized its own separate world championship match, which was won by Anatoly Karpov, while Kasparov proceeded to defeat Short in London later that year to become the PCA world champion.12