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 3,700  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Karpov vs Nedelin 1-0 36 1961 RUS-ch Juniors C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin 2. G Timoscenko vs Karpov 0-1 53 1961 RUS-ch Juniors C10 French 3. B Kalinkin vs Karpov ½-½ 32 1961 Cheliabinsk C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin 4. E Lazarev vs Karpov 0-1 49 1961 Cheliabinsk D55 Queen's Gambit Declined 5. A Shneider vs Karpov 0-1 51 1961 Cheliabinsk C34 King's Gambit Accepted 6. Shusharin vs Karpov 0-1 35 1961 Cheliabinsk C77 Ruy Lopez 7. Karpov vs Maksimov 1-0 60 1961 Magnitogorsk E81 King's Indian, Samisch 8. V Kalashnikov vs Karpov ½-½ 62 1961 Zlatoust E15 Queen's Indian 9. Karpov vs Budakov ½-½ 26 1961 Zlatoust C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd 10. Karpov vs Gaimaletdinov 1-0 60 1961 Zlatoust C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense 11. Karpov vs V Kalashnikov 1-0 60 1961 Zlatoust C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange 12. Karpov vs Mukhudulin ½-½ 61 1961 Zlatoust B56 Sicilian 13. Karpov vs Shefler 1-0 43 1961 Zlatoust C01 French, Exchange 14. Karpov vs Ziuliarkin 1-0 35 1961 Zlatoust A07 King's Indian Attack 15. Tarinin vs Karpov 1-0 35 1961 Zlatoust C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin 16. Zadneprovsky vs Karpov 0-1 65 1961 Zlatoust E27 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch Variation 17. Korchnoi vs Karpov ½-½ 30 1961 Simul C45 Scotch Game 18. Karpov vs S Belousov 1-0 40 1961 Borovichi C07 French, Tarrasch 19. Larinin vs Karpov   1-0 35 1961 Zlatoust C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin 20. Aranov vs Karpov 0-1 71 1962 Cheliabinsk C10 French 21. Karpov vs Karin 1-0 39 1962 Cheliabinsk B06 Robatsch 22. Karpov vs Tarinin 1-0 53 1962 Cheliabinsk C73 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense 23. Kolishkin vs Karpov ½-½ 39 1962 Cheliabinsk C86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack 24. Manakov vs Karpov 0-1 26 1962 Koyensk C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 25. V Kalashnikov vs Karpov ½-½ 36 1962 Zlatoust C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin  page 1 of 148; games 1-25 of 3,700

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 232 OF 254 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-24-15    WannaBe: <chancho> I'll believe ya, since my Spanish is as good as my Latin! But I know 'y' means 'and'. =)) Feb-24-15    chancho: Well here's another pic of Sosonko: http://www.scrkuppenheim.de/extra/s... Looks like the guy in the other photo. Feb-24-15    zanzibar: Boy, I'm really out to lunch, of course I wrote his name down at the start. Here's his portrait on <CG>, a few years later: http://www.chessgames.com/portraits... And here's a picture of Fischer visiting Tal in the hospital: https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/wp-... Of course later-day pictures of Short, Karpov and Kasparov are a dime a dozen... Feb-25-15    offramp: Karpov owns a fine sculpture of a woolly mammoth carved from a woolly mammoth tusk! Unfortunately one of the sculpture's tusks was broken off. But luckily someone was able to make a sculpture of another woolly mammoth from the tusk of the first sculpture of the woolly mammoth. Here it is: http://www.karpovchess.ru/images/up... Feb-25-15    offramp: <tpstar: Tal had a deformed right hand from a birth defect> Yes. The scientific name for it is Lobsterissimus Bumbicissimus. Feb-25-15    chancho: A closer look: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectrod... Feb-25-15    offramp: <chances> You are correct in spotting the Electrodactyl Hyperdigital Tourettismus Normalis, but a more straightforward diagnosis would be Lobsterisimus Bummakisimus, a more technically correct Latin version of what I posted earlier. Apr-03-15    thomastonk: To the day 40 years ago: Karpov became the new World Champion! Apr-03-15    offramp: 40 years. I would think that Karpov has remembered, or someone has reminded him. What a strange long trip it's been! Forty years, imagine! The way time passes... Apr-11-15    Conrad93: I never understood why Kasparov has gathered more publicity than Karpov. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that he majority of chess players find Karpov a boring player. Apr-24-15    offramp: Most major chess masters have a ratings graph which looks like Eccentrica Gallumbits's brassière. May-01-15    TheFocus: <Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess> - Anatoly Karpov. May-02-15    TheFocus: <Chess is everything: art, science, and sport> - Karpov, Anatoly. May-02-15    offramp: <Chess is everything: art, science, sport and my record label.> - Chuck Berry. May-02-15    john barleycorn: very good <offramp> May-07-15    TheFocus: <Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths> - Anatoly Karpov. May-07-15    TheFocus: <The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches> - Anatoly Karpov. May-07-15    TheFocus: <My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently> - Anatoly Karpov. May-09-15    TheFocus: <I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes> - Anatoly Karpov. May-10-15    TheFocus: <The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance> - Anatoly Karpov. May-10-15    TheFocus: <The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others> - Anatoly Karpov. May-10-15    TheFocus: <It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss> - Anatoly Karpov. May-10-15    TheFocus: <Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well> - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov - Anatoly Karpov. May-10-15    TheFocus: <An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!> - Anatoly Karpov. May-11-15    TheFocus: <Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position> - Anatoly Karpov. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 254) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 232 OF 254 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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