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Anatoly Karpov

Russian chess player

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  • Age
    75
    Born 1951
  • Known for
    Red Army
    2015
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Updated 2026-06-09

He held the world title for a decade, challenged for it another nine years, and racked up over 160 tournament wins — a span of dominance that made him the measure of Soviet chess before Kasparov arrived to test it.

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Anatoly Karpov was born in 1951 and became the 12th World Chess Champion in 1975, holding the crown until 1985. For 25 consecutive years, from 1974 to 1998, he was either champion or challenger — a stretch of sustained contention exceeded only by Emanuel Lasker. He won the FIDE World Championship three times in the 1990s, took six Chess Olympiad golds with the Soviet team, and became the first World Rapid Chess Champion in 1988. The International Association of Chess Press gave him nine Chess Oscars between 1973 and 1984. His peak rating reached 2780, and he spent 102 months ranked number one…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Anatoly Karpov

Anatoly Karpov
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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.
— Interview on Chessdom, 2009
Anatoly Karpov
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People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
— Interview on Chessbase 06.07.2005
Anatoly Karpov
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My relations with Korchnoi depend on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.
— Interview on Chessbase 06.07.2005
Anatoly Karpov
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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
— Interview in Chess Life in 2003 quoted on anatolykarpovchessschool
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