Professional Chess Association

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The Professional Chess Association (PCA) was founded in 1993 by Garri Kasparow and Nigel Short to market and organize their world chess championships .

Kasparov and Short accused the world chess federation FIDE and its president Florencio Campomanes of unprofessional work and a lack of lobbying. They also refused to surrender 25 percent of the prize money to FIDE. FIDE then withdrew Kasparov's world title and Short the right to the challenge. In October 1993 the duel between Kasparov and Short took place in London . Kasparov won clearly with 12.5: 7.5, making him PCA world champion. Since FIDE had disqualified Kasparov and Short, Anatoli Karpow and Jan Timman now played the FIDE world championship title among themselves, with Karpov winning. There were now two world champions, the FIDE recognized world champion Karpow and the PCA world champion Kasparow. At the 1995 World Chess Championship , Kasparov defended his PCA World Championship title against Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City . A year later, the PCA disbanded after losing its main sponsor, Intel .

As the successor organization to the PCA, Garri Kasparov founded in April 1998, together with the Spanish chess patron and tournament organizer Luis Rentero , the World Chess Council (WCC), another chess federation that competed with FIDE and that was to take over the further organization of the world championships previously held by the PCA. However, the WCC only held a candidate competition between Vladimir Kramnik and Alexei Schirow in May / June 1998 and stopped its activities at the end of the same year. Since then there have been efforts to bring the two world championships back together, which ended in 2006 with the reunification battle between the “classic” world champion Vladimir Kramnik and the FIDE world champion Wesselin Topalow .

Kasparov is now self-critical about the establishment of the PCA ( It was bad judgment ).

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  1. ↑ New In Chess , 2006, 8, p. 103.