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 70 OF 254 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-01-06    babakova: 135 pounds seems a tad optimistic...I read somewhere that Karpov weighed in at just 51-53 kg...But this might have been around 1975 however. Apr-01-06    keypusher: I thought he weighed about 120 lbs. in the 1970s. 51-53 kg would put him on the light side of 120. Apr-01-06    babakova: I dont think 120 pounds is that bad if you consider his height and relative youth back then. But when he played the matches against Kasparov in the 80´s (90´s) he was already over thirty and I would think he could have benefited from putting on a few pounds, perhaps doing some exercising as well. Apr-01-06    BishopBerkeley: "Calorie Restriction" enthusiasts would probably agree with <babakova>: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calori... Some calorie restriction folks have said that it's as if each of us is allotted a certain fixed amount of food for the sum total of our lifetime, and once we finish eating that food, we die. If we eat it slowly (few calories per day), we will live for a long time, but if we eat up our allottment of food quickly (many calories per day), our lives will be short. I suspect this will ultimately be shown to be a crude model of the situation, but one that has some approximate "correctness". I think a finer and more accurate "tweak" of this model would be that each of us is allotted a certain amount of *unwholesome* foods over the course of our lifetime (high fat, high salt, high sugar, or heavily-processed foods, etc.), and once we exceed that allottment, we die (if something else hasn't already gotten to us!) Many animal studies have supported the basic "calorie restriction" concept. (Animals clearly tend to live longer when they get a bit less food than they would like, other things being equal.) But clearly, when the practice becomes extreme, it works AGAINST us! (: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :) P.S. Then again, if you could live to be 120 on 1,000 calories a day or less, would it be worth it?!? One other point. The celebrated inventor and tech guru Ray Kurzweil believes that we will soon be able to stop the aging process altogether! ("Live long enough to live forever!" ... "Immortality is within our grasp...") http://www.fantastic-voyage.net/ He embraces some aspects of the calorie restriction model. Apr-02-06    offramp: <Jim Bartle: I can hardly imagine what he looked like toward the end of the first Kasparov match.> He looked the same as usual. After all, he had only played 48 games in 6 months, most of them very short draws. Apr-04-06    babakova: Karpov on his weight: "When I won my first game with Korchnoi [in 1974] I was 47 kilograms. I gained a kilogram per year, but when I got 72 kilograms I decided it was the time to stop. Since then my weight is constant, 72 kilograms." Just saw it on chessbase. Apr-04-06    Jim Bartle: 47 kilos is 103 pounds! That's hard to believe; jockeys weigh more. How tall is he, anyway? Apr-04-06    offramp: < Gregor Samsa Mendel: I don't know at what point in the '84 match this was taken... http://www.terra.es/personal3/r3198... ...but he doesn't look like the picture of robust good health.> That was taken at the start of the match. No one was taking pictures at the end of the match. Apr-04-06    Mameluk: More interesting part of the interview for me:) is that Karpov suddenly seems to support Ilyumzhinov. The reason there is such rubbish: what did Kirsan for me as an average club player? Nothing, just a bit destroyed my nerves with his anti-chess time control spread all over the world. The reason there is obvious for me. East mighty men, East maffia, they don´t know how to negotiate with West businessmen. Surely, these are corrupted too, but they have some mask of nice persons. Corruption in East is much more straight, no or bad democracy, so what to care about? But now, that Bessel Kok- will he be our friend? Will we have our benefits? OMG, he looks so honest, let´s better keep our Kirsan there. Apr-04-06    babakova: According to imdb Karpov is 170 cm tall. Apr-04-06    offramp: <Mameluk: More interesting part of the interview for me:) is that Karpov suddenly seems to support Ilyumzhinov. The reason there is such rubbish: what did Kirsan for me as an average club player?...> I must say that Ilyumzhinov has not affected me much as a chess player. Apr-04-06    babakova: Which would give him a BMI of 16.3 ---Quite underweight. Apr-04-06    Jim Bartle: I suspect Karpov is fibbing a little, both about the 47 and the 72. Apr-04-06    keypusher: 170 cm would make Karpov 5'7". I don't think he's anywhere near that tall. 5'4", I think. Here's more from the imdb website on Karpov -- as you can see, it may not be too reliable: <Russian chess champion, at the age of 11 he became the youngest candidate master of chess in the Soviet Union and at the age of 15 he became the Soviet Union's youngest chess master. Karpov succeeded Bobby Fischer as world champion in 1975, a title he held until losing to Gary Kasparov in 1985. He lost to Kasparov again in 1990. In 1998, Karpov won the FIDE World Chess Championship, defeating Viswanathan Anand of India in the final. He lost the FIDE World Chess title in 1999 to Russian Alexander Khalifman. He defected from the U.S.S.R. in July 1976 and asked for asylum in Holland, but later returned to make his home in Leningrad and in Moscow.> Apr-04-06    Jim Bartle: imdb.com is a movie database, a great source but the biographical data is just stuff contributed by users. Apr-04-06    babakova: Kasparov is 178 cm tall from what I have read, maybe he is slightly shorter and when he stands next to Karpov on various photos its not that big a difference in height. Apr-04-06    keypusher: <178 cm>...that would make Kasparov 5'10". I've met him. He's not 5'10". Geez, who knew chessplayers were such pathological liars about their height? Apr-04-06    babakova: <keypusher> How tall would you say Kasparov is? Apr-04-06    Jim Bartle: With or without his ego? Apr-04-06    AlexandraThess: Karpov is not only the best player for all times in chess but he is one of the best backgammon players as well! Apr-04-06    keypusher: <babakova> maybe 5'8" 1/2? (about 174 cm) Apr-04-06    chancho: I read in this link that Fischer considered Karpov and Kasparov "inferior players". A pretty absurd asumption on his part. http://experts.about.com/e/a/an/Ana... Apr-04-06    keypusher: Well, yeah, but he's definitely taller than either one. Apr-04-06    Jim Bartle: Bullseye, keypusher. Apr-04-06    Ron: Its been mentioned here that Karpov plays backgammon. I didn't here that before. But I heard before that he shoots pool pretty well. A cool customer, accurate and deadly. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 254) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 70 OF 254 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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