Anatoly Karpov The 12th World Chess Champion, with more than 160 tournament wins
Russian grandmaster, 12th World Chess Champion (1975-1985), one of the greatest positional players. Karpov is the model of positional play. He takes away the opponent’s active ideas one by one and wins with small advantages, a style often compared to a boa constrictor.
Anatoly Karpov: key facts
- Full name
- Anatoly Karpov
- Born
- May 23, 1951, Zlatoust, Russia
- Country
- Russia
- Title
- Grandmaster
- Peak rating
- 2780
- Games in the archive
- 3,515 (1961–2022)
- Record in the archive
- 1,363 wins · 1,648 draws · 493 losses
- Win rate
- 38.8%
Anatoly Karpov's career
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Karpov in numbers
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Twelfth World Champion and one of the most successful tournament players ever, with more than 160 first places. His positional style — quiet accumulation of small advantages until the position simply cannot be held — defined an era, and his matches against Kasparov are the deepest rivalry in the game.
"Chess is everything: art, science and sport."— Anatoly Karpov
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