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Year 1984-85, 159 days, 48 games still without a winner. This was the match between World champion Anatoly Karpov and his challenger Gary Kasparov. Format of play was that whoever wins 6 games first (draws does not count) becomes a world champion. Kasparov, who was openly speaking against such format, was already down 5:0, then decided not to lose another game, playing solidly for a draw. This made Karpov ancious and wanted to push more in order to defend the title; but anyone who knows Karpov's playing style this meant he had to go out of his positional play comfort zone and risk more. Kasparov lower the score on 5:3, when the match was finally canceled and set for another format to be played in the same year 1985.

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