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Anatoly Karpov
Holding the world chess championship and mastering positional play.
Baguio title defence · Linares victory
- Born
- 23 May 1951
- Birthplace
- Zlatoust, Russia
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Anatoly Karpov
Soviet and Russian grandmaster whose patient pressure and technical precision produced decades of elite results.
Early life
Early chess
Learned as a young child and progressed through Soviet chess training.
Academic study
Studied economics while developing his competitive career.
Career
- 1960s–1970s
Rise through Soviet chess
Became world junior champion and advanced to the championship cycle.
- 1975–1985
World champion
Inherited the title after Bobby Fischer declined to defend it and won subsequent defences.
- 1990s onward
Further titles and public life
Held the separate FIDE title and later entered Russian parliamentary politics.
Achievements
Baguio title defence
Defeated Viktor Korchnoi in a fiercely contested championship match.
FIDE world champion
Held the FIDE title during the split championship era.
Linares victory
Won an exceptionally strong tournament with a dominant score.
Beyond chess
Stamp collecting
Developed a substantial interest in philately.
Politics
Served in Russia’s State Duma as a member of United Russia.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and references ↗Biography and contributions ↗Photo: Veni Markovski | Вени Марковски. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
