The chess world saw a little “immortal”. Kasparov says afterwards: "That was combative chess, the kind the public loves. The game will go down in chess history." On the next match day, Garry Kasparov wins again and now has a 7:2 lead. Three drawn games follow, so that the score is 8½:3½ at the halfway point of the competition.
In this encounter Garry Kasparov had, in his own words, ‘everything to lose’. It was a special match, between the thirteenth World Chess Champion and chess legend Garry Kasparov, 51, and the no less legendary Shogi (Japanese chess) master Yohiharu Habu, who is widely considered one of the greatest shogi players of all time (he won his 1 ysYl.