World chess champion Garry Kasparov left playing a simultaneous chess game with the team of the Chelyabinsk Palace of Young Pioneers, 27 March 1987.

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Botvinnik vs. Smyslov | World Chess Championship 1954
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Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, pictured in Belgrade, 1992.

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🔵 #Karpov

🔹 Anatoly Karpov
🔹 Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 Former World Champion
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🔵 About Anatoly Karpov

🔹 Anatoly Karpov
🔹 Russian chess grandmaster
🔹 Former World Champion

🔰 Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is 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.

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov was born in the town of Zlatoust, located in the Southern Ural Mountains in the USSR. He learned to play chess at four years old and became a candidate master by age eleven. At twelve, Karpov was accepted into the chess academy presided over by Mikhail Botvinnik. Karpov won the World Junior Championship in 1969, thereby automatically gaining the title of International Master. In 1970, he became an International Grandmaster by virtue of finishing equal fourth at Caracas. A World Championship Candidate in 1973, he defeated Viktor Korchnoi in the Karpov - Korchnoi Candidates Final (1974) to earn the right to contest the Karpov - Fischer World Championship Match (1975) with World Champion Robert James Fischer. When FIDE declared Fischer forfeited, Karpov became the 12th World Chess Champion, the youngest since Mikhail Tal in 1960.

🔰 Karpov defended the championship twice against Korchnoi, in Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship (1978) and Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Rematch (1981). After Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1984), which was aborted with Karpov leading by two points over Garry Kasparov, he lost his title to Kasparov in Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1985).

♦️ A memorable game by Karpov against Spassky played in 1974 and named "AK-74" in chessgames.com site!!👇
🔸 Anatoly Karpov vs Boris Spassky
🔸 Karpov - Spassky Candidates Semifinal (1974), Leningrad URS, rd 9, May-03
🔸 Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen. Modern Variation (B83)

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🔸 Anatoly Karpov - Boris Spassky, Candidates Semifinal (1974)
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🔸 Anatoly Karpov - Boris Spassky, Candidates Semifinal (1974)
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