Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (2021).
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Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985, a three-time FIDE World Champion, twice World Chess champion as a member of the USSR team, a six-time winner of Chess Olympiads as a member of the USSR team, and the 1st World Rapid Chess Champion (1988). The Internation…
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Born 23 May 1951 · Q131674
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2021· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the State Duma (2021).
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2016· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the State Duma (2016–2021).
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2012· 1 entry
Karpov supported the Dima Yakovlev Law banning adoption of Russian orphans by U
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2011· 4 entries
The Guardian: Chess: Pure Karpov
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The Guardian: Chess: Karpov turns the screw
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Awarded Order of Friendship (2011).
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Career landmark: member of the State Duma (2011–2016).
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2010· 3 entries
The Guardian: Chess world shocked as Karpov fails to capture top job
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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was reelected as president of FIDE, 95 votes to 55
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The Guardian: Anatoly Karpov battles Kremlin for control of world chess
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2009· 5 entries
The Guardian: Chess titans Kasparov and Karpov meet again - 25 years on
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The Guardian: Karpov v Kasparov: the Guardian's coverage of an epic world chess championship match
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The Guardian: Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov renew epic chess battle
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The Guardian: Chess legends Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov renew epic battle
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The Guardian: Ronan Bennett and Daniel King on chess: Ghaem Maghami-Karpov, Tehran 2009
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2006· 1 entry
Tied for first with Kasparov in a blitz tournament, ahead of Korchnoi and Judit Polgár
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2003· 1 entry
Karpov opened his first American chess school in Lindsborg, Kansas as the Anatoly Karpov International School of Chess
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2002· 1 entry
Won a match against Kasparov, defeating him in a rapid time control match 2½–1½
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (2001).
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Earned Silver Olympic Order (2001).
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1998· 1 entry
FIDE largely scrapped the old system of Candidates' Matches, instead having a large knockout event in which a large number of players contested short matches against each other over just a few weeks
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1992· 1 entry
Karpov lost a Candidates Match against Nigel Short
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1991· 2 entries
“Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.”
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“If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.”
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Chess Oscar (1984).
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1981· 3 entries
Awarded Chess Oscar (1981).
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Won Golden Calf (1981).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Chess Oscar (1980).
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded Chess Oscar (1979).
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Where he finished joint first (+7−1=10) with Mikhail Tal ahead of a field of strong grandmasters completed by Jan Timman, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Boris Spassky, Vlastimil Hort, Lajos Portisch, Robert Hübner, Bent Larsen and
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1978· 3 entries
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1978).
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(shared), 1980 and 1986, the Linares tournament in 1981 (shared with Larry Christiansen) and 1994, the Tilburg tournament in 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, and 1983, and the Soviet Championship in 1976, 1983, and 1988
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Karpov's first title defence was against Viktor Korchnoi, the opponent he had defeated in the 1973–75 Candidates' cycle; the match was played at Baguio, Philippines, with the winner needing six victories
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Chess Oscar (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Chess Oscar (1976).
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1975· 6 entries
Awarded world chess champion (1975).
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Awarded Chess Oscar (1975).
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That Fischer had forfeited his title and Karpov was the new World Champion
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Though a world championship match between Karpov and Fischer was highly anticipated, those hopes were never realised
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And captured his first of three Soviet titles in 1976
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But Karpov would have qualified again and beaten Fischer in 1978
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1974· 3 entries
Awarded Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR (1974).
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Awarded Chess Oscar (1974).
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Karpov took an early lead, winning the eighth game after seven draws to open the match
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Chess Oscar (1973).
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1971· 1 entry
To 2660 in 1973, during which he shared second place in the 1973 Soviet championship, one point behind Spassky, and qualified for the Leningrad Interzonal
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1970· 1 entry
Karpov tied for fourth and fifth places with Pal Benko at an international tournament in Caracas, Venezuela, and earned the international grandmaster title
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1969· 1 entry
Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky (1955) to win the World Junior Championship, scoring an undefeated 10/11 in the final A group at Stockholm
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1967· 1 entry
Won the annual Niemeyer Tournament in Groningen
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1951· 2 entries
Born 1951-05-23.
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In Zlatoust, in the Urals region of the former Soviet Union, and learned to play chess at the age of four
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