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| Feb-19-19 | | amadeus: <Howard: Spassky beat Karpov at Hamburg 1982, but that was at accelerated time controls, as I recall.> Classical games: Anatoly Karpov beat Boris Spassky 14 to 1, with 23 draws search "karpov vs spassky" |
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Feb-19-19
 | | alexmagnus: Chessgames lists the Hamburg 1982 game as "exhibition". |
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| Feb-24-19 | | amadeus: <Joseph Blackcape: In June the 67 years old GM Karpov scored yet another tournament win by triumphing in World Chess Legends 2 in Platja d'Aro, Spain over 3 other GMs of his generation.> A nice interview with Karpov just after his win: https://en.chessbase.com/post/inter... Btw, the games haven't been uploaded yet. |
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| May-23-19 | | andrewjsacks: A happy birthday wish is in order to a great Champion, though perhaps a less than fully admirable man in some respects. |
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May-23-19
 | | Richard Taylor: It's a pity he didn't play Fischer. He was at his peak in 1974 or around there. He played, as well as his positional masterpieces, some great attacking games. I'm just playing over games by him from a book I found by Markland. His prize winning games included a great win against Timman. But he also beat Tal, Korchnoi and others in some amazing games. One game he played he moved his King to e4 and back to c2: Karpov vs A Zaitsev, 1970 |
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| May-23-19 | | gars: Happy Birthday, Grandmaster Karpov! You are one of the BESTEST players ever! |
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May-23-19
 | | Phony Benoni: Anatoly Karpov and I were born in the same year. He in May, me in November. Amazing what that six months head start can do. |
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May-23-19
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi P.B.
Anatoly Karpov was born a just a month before me - amazing what one month head start can do. Happy Birthday G.M. Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov. ---
Hi Richard,
The Markland book was one of the first to be published in algebraic in the UK. I was never too fond of the 1.e2-e4 e7-e5 long notation it used. Much preferred the shorter 1.e4 e5 format which (if memory serves) is the style they used in the notes. Also the diagrams, they had a-h and 1-8 on all sides of the board to help those new to algebraic. *** |
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| May-24-19 | | cunctatorg: <andrewjsacks: A happy birthday wish is in order to a great Champion, though perhaps a less than fully admirable man in some respects.> Is it a pity that the amazing internet avenue of global communication is also a ground for everyone to insult people, even in his birthday?!? Or is it didactic? Anyways, Happy Birthday to the most effective (and overwhelming!!...) positional chess player ever, one of the greatest players in chess history!! |
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May-24-19
 | | AylerKupp: <<andrewjsacks> A happy birthday wish is in order to a great Champion, though perhaps a less than fully admirable man in some respects.> Who among us is fully admirable in all respects? Certainly not me. |
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May-24-19
| | AylerKupp: <<Phony Benoni> Anatoly Karpov was born a just a month before me - amazing what one month head start can do.> Many years ago my wife and I asked one of our friends' 4-year old daughter: “Kelly, how old are you?”
“Four!” she said in a bright and happy voice.
“And how old is your friend Aaron?” we asked.
“Five!” she replied in an equally bright and happy voice. Then seriously: “Next year I’m going to be five, and Aaron is going to be six.” Suddenly, her face turned somber and she mumbled sadly: “I’m never going to catch up, am I?” So good luck in catching up with Karpov, both in age and playing ability. |
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| May-24-19 | | john barleycorn: <AylerKupp: ...
So good luck in catching up with Karpov, both in age and playing ability.> I cannot do that in age, for sure. |
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Aug-07-19
 | | Chessical: "Anatoly Karpov could not fly to New York for the long established chess training camp of Maxim Dlugy Academy. In the previous two years he flew there without any difficulties. This time, the former world champion and State Duma deputy filed a visa application in early March. They talked to him at the American embassy and asked if he intended to communicate with congressmen in the country. Karpov replied that the purpose of his trip was exclusively chess. Formally, they have not refused him a visa, but the application is still “at the verification stage”, according to the US Department of State. The training camp took place last week; Karpov participated on Skype. Neither a letter from the senator and congressman of New York, nor the invitation from the police chief of the city of Chicago, nor the fact that US President George W. Bush once assigned Anatoly Karpov the title of Honorary Citizen of Texas, helped." Source: http://chess-news.ru/node/26224 |
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| Aug-21-19 | | wordfunph: another version..
<Russian chess legend Anatoly Karpov unable to get U.S. visa, friend says> https://ph.yahoo.com/news/russian-c... |
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Aug-25-19
 | | MissScarlett: It took me a while to work out that it's the Americans, not the Russians, apparently delaying the granting of a visa. |
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| Aug-28-19 | | Caissanist: NPR had a story on that today. Supposedly the denial was related to the reduction in US diplomatic staff in Moscow, one of the people they interviewed said Karpov could probably have gotten a visa had he been willing to travel to Warsaw to make his application. |
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Aug-28-19
| | MissScarlett: <chess24.com
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Kasparov on a Karpov interview where he claimed he & Garry understood chess better than Magnus & at their peak would beat him:
"He now knows much more about chess than we did... I spent quite a lot of time with Magnus & he understands chess no worse than us!"
#SinquefieldCup>
https://twitter.com/chess24com/stat... |
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| Sep-28-19 | | spingo: I am eating some Pad Krapow Gay
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/2... at Karpov's gay pad.What are the chances of that haappening? |
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| Nov-04-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: Karpov vs Nihal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=frjTS... |
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| Dec-17-19 | | Carrots and Pizza: Karpov's biography is quite modest! I've seen plenty of other biographies of much lesser players that are miles long compared to this. How is it that a legend like Karpov has a such a skimpy bio? |
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Dec-17-19
 | | keypusher: <Carrots and Pizza: Karpov's biography is quite modest! I've seen plenty of other biographies of much lesser players that are miles long compared to this. How is it that a legend like Karpov has a such a skimpy bio?> Most of the really long bios belong to active players whose bios are being updated to reflect recent events. Honestly I think those bios are excessively, uselessly long. Morphy or Botvinnik have bios roughly as long as Karpov's, and even Fischer's isn't a lot longer. On the other hand Capablanca, Lasker, and Alekhine have bios that are considerably longer. Ultimately bios are volunteer efforts. If you think Karpov's bio should be longer, get yourself editorial privileges and write it. |
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Dec-17-19
 | | Fusilli: <keypusher> <Most of the really long bios belong to active players whose bios are being updated to reflect recent events. Honestly I think those bios are excessively, uselessly long.> I agree. There is a bias toward active players. Among those neglected, Artur Yusupov and Jan Timman have pitifully short bios, although they were among the top of the top in their golden days. Equivalent players today get many paragraphs. That said, I do have editing privileges, but... I don't care that much about it (or frankly don't have the time)! |
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| Dec-17-19 | | Carrots and Pizza: <keypusher: If you think Karpov's bio should be longer, get yourself editorial privileges and write it.> I would like to, but I'm not a very good writer, unfortunately. Besides, I am not necessarily saying it needs to be lengthened, only that it's surprisingly short considering the biographies of lesser known players from the past. |
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| Dec-17-19 | | nok: How d'you get editorial privileges?
I'd like to make some changes to Carlsen's bio, among others. |
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Dec-17-19
| | keypusher: < Carrots and Pizza: <keypusher: If you think Karpov's bio should be longer, get yourself editorial privileges and write it.>
I would like to, but I'm not a very good writer, unfortunately. Besides, I am not necessarily saying it needs to be lengthened, only that it's surprisingly short considering the biographies of lesser known players from the past.> Sorry, my response was less polite than it could have been. My feeling about myself is that I get a lot more out of this website than I put in, but realistically that's probably not going to change, unless I win the lottery (or get fired -- hopefully the former). Bios are not a priority for me. If I could fix something, I'd make us better at keeping up with new events, and also I'd create more tournament collections (I've done a few, very few). But everyone has their own priorities. |
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