Kasparovian

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 1963), Russian chess Grandmaster, writer and political activist.

    "Here, in the midst of a typically Kasparovian conflagration, the black king advances in person to thwart the enemy onslaught – all of these contribute to the general air of mystification in Petrosian's games."

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"Here, in the midst of a typically Kasparovian conflagration, the black king advances in person to thwart the enemy onslaught – all of these contribute to the general air of mystification in Petrosian's games."

Etymology

From Kasparov + -ian.

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