Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov, PhDis a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993. He held the title until 1999, when he resigned his title in protest against FIDE's new world championship rules. For his decades-long standing...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionChess Player
Date of Birth23 May 1951
CountryRussian Federation
Style, I've got no style.
I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.
This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
I have won Russia at least 16 world championships. I have fought for my country.