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Anatoly Karpov

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No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.


— Anatoly Karpov


#four #games #i #i do #my time

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.


— Anatoly Karpov


#alliance #benefit #chess #close #obvious

Style? I have no style.


— Anatoly Karpov


#style

The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.


— Anatoly Karpov


#because #change #long #must #out

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.


— Anatoly Karpov


#damage #did #fischer #fuss #image

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.


— Anatoly Karpov


#champion #need #only #personalities #sponsors

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.


— Anatoly Karpov


#chess #even #i #i do #love






About Anatoly Karpov

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Did you know about Anatoly Karpov?

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. The next major meeting of Kasparov and Karpov was the 1994 Linares chess tournament. In 2002 he won a match against Kasparov defeating him in a rapid time control match 2½–1½.

For his decades-long standing among the world's elite Karpov is considered one of the greatest players of all time. He had a peak Elo rating of 2780 and his 90 total months at world number one is second all-time behind only Garry Kasparov since the inception of the FIDE ranking list in 1970.

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