Eighteen years after his last visit to Lyon, the world champion chess (from 1975 to 1985,) Anatoly Karpov will play a few games in Lyon today, at the Chess Club Olympique Lyon (

Download this stock image: Eighteen years after his last visit to Lyon, the world champion chess (from 1975 to 1985,) Anatoly Karpov will play a few games in Lyon today, at the Chess Club Olympique Lyon (LOE.) Lyon, France, on June 26, 2008. The champion had come to inaugurate in 1990, the local club founded in 1905. Some players rhodaniens will have the privilege of facing the former world champion and the parties will be played on the table used by the two enemies forever, and Kasparov himself, in 1990. The challenges matches will take place Friday and Saturday at the club. Photo by Vincent Dargent/ABACAPRESS.COM - 2E52EMA from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

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