November 1985, a milestone was reached in the Chess world when Garry Kasparov became the game's youngest world champion. He was 22 years old when he dethroned the reigning king, and then fellow Soviet, Anatoly Karpov. In so doing, Kasparov broke the age record which had held by Mikhail years. The 1985 clash Kasparov and months after their battle had to produce a winner. took place in Moscow lasted three months. changing political climate in the former Soviet Union at the time, the contest was often depicted as a clash of ideologies, between "new Rus represented by Kasparov and Gorbachev and "old Russia" Karpov and Brezhnev