ANATOLY KARPOV (born May-23-1951, 74 years old) Russia PRONUNCIATION: [what is this?] Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov was born in the town of Zlatoust, located in the Southern Ural Mountains in the USSR. He learned to play chess at four years old and became a candidate master by age eleven. At twelve, Karpov was accepted into the chess academy presided over by Mikhail Botvinnik. Karpov won the World Junior Championship in 1969, thereby automatically gaining the title of International Master. In 1970, he became an International Grandmaster by virtue of finishing equal fourth at Caracas. A World Championship Candidate in 1973, he defeated Viktor Korchnoi in the Karpov - Korchnoi Candidates Final (1974) to earn the right to contest the Karpov - Fischer World Championship Match (1975) with World Champion Robert James Fischer. When FIDE declared Fischer forfeited, Karpov became the 12th World Chess Champion, the youngest since Mikhail Tal in 1960. Karpov defended the championship twice against Korchnoi, in Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978) and Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Match (1981). After Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1984/85), which was aborted with Karpov leading by two points over Garry Kasparov, he lost his title to Kasparov in Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1985). He played three more closely contested matches with Kasparov, narrowly losing Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Rematch (1986), drawing Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Match (1987) and again narrowly losing Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Match (1990). Karpov was thrice Soviet Champion: in 1976*, 1983** and 1988***, on the latter occasion sharing the title with Kasparov. In 1993 Karpov regained the FIDE title against Jan Timman in Karpov - Timman FIDE World Championship Match (1993), after Kasparov had broken away from the organization. He successfully defended his title against Gata Kamsky in Karpov - Kamsky FIDE World Championship Match (1996) and Viswanathan Anand in Karpov - Anand FIDE World Championship Match (1998). In 1999 FIDE changed the rules, deciding that the World Champion would be determined by an annual knockout tournament, and Karpov retired from championship competition. At Linares (1994), Karpov achieved one of the greatest tournament successes ever, outdistancing Kasparov by 2.5 points, with a tournament performance rating of 2985. In May 1974, his rating reached 2700, only the second player, after Fischer, to do so. ** At age 61 he won the Trophee Anatoly Karpov (2012) rapid tournament on tiebreak over Vasyl Ivanchuk. A year later, at 62, he won the Cap D'Agde (2013). Outside of chess, Karpov has been linked to the company Petromir, which claimed in 2007 to have found a large natural gas field.**** * [rusbase-1]; ** [rusbase-2]; *** [rusbase-3] ** http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo197... **** Miriam Elder, The St. Petersburg Times, Issue # 1242, 2007.02.02, Link: http://sptimes.ru/index.php?action_... and The St. Petersburg Times, Issue # 1246, 2007.02.16, Link: http://sptimes.ru/index.php?action_... Wikipedia article: Anatoly Karpov Last updated: 2024-07-29 08:35:45

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page 1 of 148; games 1-25 of 3,692  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Korchnoi vs Karpov ½-½ 30 1961 Simul C45 Scotch Game 2. V Kalashnikov vs Karpov ½-½ 62 1961 Zlatoust E15 Queen's Indian 3. E Lazarev vs Karpov 0-1 49 1961 Cheliabinsk D55 Queen's Gambit Declined 4. Karpov vs Nedelin 1-0 36 1961 RUS-ch Juniors C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin 5. Karpov vs Ziuliarkin 1-0 35 1961 Zlatoust A07 King's Indian Attack 6. Karpov vs Budakov ½-½ 26 1961 Zlatoust C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd 7. Zadneprovsky vs Karpov 0-1 65 1961 Zlatoust E27 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch Variation 8. Tarinin vs Karpov 1-0 35 1961 Zlatoust C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin 9. Karpov vs V Kalashnikov 1-0 60 1961 Zlatoust C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange 10. Karpov vs S Belousov 1-0 40 1961 Borovichi C07 French, Tarrasch 11. Shusharin vs Karpov 0-1 35 1961 Cheliabinsk C77 Ruy Lopez 12. B Kalinkin vs Karpov ½-½ 32 1961 Cheliabinsk C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin 13. G Timoscenko vs Karpov 0-1 53 1961 RUS-ch Juniors C10 French 14. Karpov vs Mukhudulin ½-½ 61 1961 Zlatoust B56 Sicilian 15. Karpov vs Shefler 1-0 43 1961 Zlatoust C01 French, Exchange 16. Larinin vs Karpov   1-0 35 1961 Zlatoust C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin 17. Karpov vs Gaimaletdinov 1-0 60 1961 Zlatoust C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense 18. A Shneider vs Karpov 0-1 51 1961 Cheliabinsk C34 King's Gambit Accepted 19. Karpov vs Maksimov 1-0 60 1961 Magnitogorsk E81 King's Indian, Samisch 20. Aranov vs Karpov 0-1 71 1962 Cheliabinsk C10 French 21. Kolishkin vs Karpov ½-½ 39 1962 Cheliabinsk C86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack 22. Karpov vs Piskunov 1-0 35 1962 Zlatoust B03 Alekhine's Defense 23. V Kalashnikov vs Karpov ½-½ 36 1962 Zlatoust C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin 24. Karpov vs Karin 1-0 39 1962 Cheliabinsk B06 Robatsch 25. Karpov vs Tarinin 1-0 53 1962 Cheliabinsk C73 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense  page 1 of 148; games 1-25 of 3,692

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 195 OF 254 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-01-10    acirce: <Ilymzhinov's election campaign exhibited very little anti-Karpov rhetoric. Where Karpov's campaign fell down badly was in its anti-Ilyumzhinov emphasis, which seemed to be employed as a substitute to make up for a lack of well-founded claims about the future financial viability and prosperity of a Karopv-led FIDE.> Agreed. Oct-01-10    kia0708: "Mr. Ilyumzhinov has said he met with extraterrestrials ..." --------------- Well, more than one-third (35 %) of Americans believe in UFOs. Oct-01-10    BobCrisp: <The newly elected FIDE President and the 12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov thanked everyone for their support and told us about their plans on further mutual cooperation.> http://www.ugra-chess.com/node/435 Oct-01-10    Open Defence: did anyone hear the sound of a flush? Oct-01-10    BobCrisp: Busted or toilet? Oct-01-10    chancho: Just by the mention of "sound," I'm guessing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tyu... Oct-17-10    vonKrolock: His BMW was stolen in Moscow yesterday, and luckily recovered by the police in a few hours . There was a very valuable Chess set made of mammoth tusks in the baggage carrier, perhaps worthier than the car itself http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translat... Oct-18-10    vonKrolock: Quite a coincidence, that Chessbase published yesterday an article on expensive <"Chess sets for the Jet Set"> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Oct-20-10    Mr. President: such a pooor loooser Oct-25-10    The Rocket: old karpov once again getting slapped in chess, now in frances rapid tournament.. he has lost all 3 rounds so far.. Oct-25-10    HeMateMe: The 'New Adventures of Old Tolya'? lol! Oct-26-10    kapivarov: Great volte-face today (Cap D'Agde): in a presumibly lost position, Karpov, with a few seconds left agaist almost 3 minutes of Judit Polgar, managed to win the game (though Judit blundered). Congratulations to Karpov!! Far from his best, but once Karpov, Karpov forever... Oct-26-10    The Rocket: <"Mr. Ilyumzhinov has said he met with extraterrestrials ..."> Yeah what a bizarre conception intelligent life in the universe?! no cant be.. Oct-26-10    Jim Bartle: "Yeah what a bizarre conception intelligent life in the universe?!" Yes, but not so much more bizarre than being certain Fischer would not have a chance against Nakamura in blitz. Oct-26-10    Everett: A description of the great player's style from the man himself: http://bigthink.com/ideas/20668 <So, I was, and I am, how to say—a positional player, but active positional player. So, we had purely positional player who was Tigran Petrosian, world champion for six years. But I have active positional style and so I played quite strongly endings. So this was my advantage also and then I could defend difficult positions, which is quite seldom in modern chess. So, and I could resist in positions where other players probably would resign. And I was finding interesting ideas how to defend difficult positions and I could save many games. So, I never gave up. I was... okay, I was stubborn as a chess player, and so I tried to defend even very bad positions, and in many cases succeeded.> <...so as a personality, I’m fighter, you know. And I don’t give up and if I believe I’m correct, I’m right, then I work and I fight. Okay, this could be over chess board, this could be in life and so I defend my principles. And in chess, okay, this is a special, how to say, characteristic when you, when you try to find the best move whatever the position is, because many people they say, okay, this is bad and then they lose will to fight. I never lost will to fight.> Oct-26-10    Everett: ... and some more: <Weaknesses? So, I didn’t know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness. But this is you know, this is weakness and this is advantage because if I would know Chess theory so well, so probably I would not work out this style to defend difficult positions because from my childhood I could receive difficult positions against even weaker players, but okay nothing happened, so I was continuing to fight. And so this is weakness, this is positive thing, but still more this is weakness. It is better to know Chess Theory and not to get in difficult positions from the beginning.> This quote reminds me of the introduction to Ivan Sokolov's book on MIddlegames: It is described how a GM, in the post-mortem after a loss to Karpov, starts saying "see, here, after the opening you are definitely worse," to which the 12th World Champion said, while demonstrating some ideas on the board, "yes, yes, but soon I was better." Which reminds me of one other story, about Radjabov going through a post-mortem with Karpov, how Karpov would somehow never be convinced, with proper defense, that he was worse. Radjabov said it was very educational (after being shown position after position of imaginative defenses), but also a little annoying. Oct-27-10    Troller: Nice posts <Everett>. That Sokolov quote is a classic. Jokes aside, however, keep in mind Yusupov's theory that in order to win games, it is best to mix strong and weak (or less strong) moves. When you play only "correct" moves, your opponent will play strong moves as well, while the occasional weak move can provoke the same from the opponent. Nothing wrong with winning a game where you were objectively worse after the opening, just make sure you don't commit the last blunder. Oct-27-10    The Rocket: <"however, keep in mind Yusupov's theory that in order to win games, it is best to mix strong and weak (or less strong) moves. When you play only "correct" moves, your opponent will play strong moves as well, "> dont listent to him.. has he really said that? pure nonsense Oct-27-10    Troller: I don't know...Larsen put some faith in that as well...But ok, on our patzer level, it is probably not good advice. On elite level you find many games where the balance is kept throughout the game, so the challenge is also to upset that balance. Take Anand's Slav against Kramnik in 2008; not an experiment many top players wanted to follow (probably not very sound), but it did lead to positions where Kramnik misplayed. Oct-27-10    The Rocket: I dont beliave Anands opening was unsound. The reason kramnik misplayed it was because he got into insane time trouble which of course can be contributed to the opening. Oct-27-10    acirce: Anand does not deliberately play weak moves in a World Championship match. Believe me. Oct-27-10    swissfed: "I singled out for me a group of chess players from whom I wanted to borrow the best qualities: < the psychological stability from Karpov, < the meticulous positional technique from Petrosian, < the logic - from Botvinnik, < the intuition from Alekhine, < the ability of taking a risk - from Tal." >>>>> -- Garry Kasparov Oct-28-10    Everett: I have my own similar list, limited to three for economy's sake, based upon exactly what is missing from many of my games: Bronstein's imagination Karpov's patience Smyslov's technique I'm sure others here have a similar list. Oct-30-10    goldenbear: I wonder if all the amphetamines Karpov is supposed to have taken during his playing years have affected his mind. Other than Larsen, Karpov is the only player I know to have declined so sharply with old age. Maybe it has something to do with his style. Any thoughts? Also, anyone know any evidence as to the extent of Karpov's alleged drug use? Oct-31-10    micartouse: <Everett: I'm sure others here have a similar list.> I have successfully assimilated many of the qualities of the masters into my game: The theoretical knowledge of Reshevsky The psychological stability of Ivanchuk The fighting spirit of Andersson The creative imagination of Deep Blue The time management of Samisch The tactical prowess of NN Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 254) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 195 OF 254 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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