Chess Champion Makes Moves in Cuba

STORY:
Calculating moves with quickness, Anatoli Karpov took turn after turn in a long line of chess boards.
Russia's grand chessmaster is going for checkmate in a 4000-game tournament that pits the world renowned player against students and teachers from the Cuban Information Sciences University.

In this, his second trip to Communist Cuba, he told the crowd Russia and Cuba should reach across the table once again, in chess and beyond.

[Anatoli Karpov, World Chess Champion]:
"I think we can restore the old, good, business and scientific ties between Cuba and Russia, and we can at least play chess and enhance the links between universities"

Karpov reigned as world champion for 16 years, beginning in 1975.