India, Oct. 8 -- Grandmasters Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov will reignite their famous rivalry as they face off against one another for the first time in 30 years, beginning today at the St. Louis Chess Club in the USA. The two legendary grandmasters will take each other on in the Fischer Random format, in a 12-game match that will breathe life back into a rivalry that defined the sport in the late 20th century.

The Anand-Kasparov matchup sees the Indian and Russian grandmasters lock horns in a competitive environment for the first time since 2021, but it has been 30 years since the pair played an extended match of this calibre. That came in the famous 1995 World Chess Championship, a 20-game match played on the 107th floor of New...