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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. He played five matches against Kasparov for the title from 1984 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993. He held the title until 1999, when he resigned his title in protest against FIDE's new world championship rules. For his decades-long standing among the world's elite, many consider Karpov one of the greatest players in history.

His tournament successes include over 160 first-place finishes. He had a peak Elo rating of 2780, and his 102 total months at world number one is the third longest of all time, behind Magnus Carlsen and Garry Kasparov, since the inception of the FIDE ranking list in 1970. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. May 1951   •   Other names Anatolij Evgen'evič Karpov, Anatolij Karpov, Анатолий Карпов
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Famous Anatoly Karpov Quotes

“If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.”

Anatoly Karpov

Interview in Chess Life in 2003 quoted on anatolykarpovchessschool http://www.anatolykarpovchessschool.org/home/karpovinterview.html

“My relations with Korchnoi depend on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.”

Anatoly Karpov

Interview on Chessbase 06.07.2005 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2495

“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.”

Anatoly Karpov

Interview on Chessdom, 2009 http://interviews.chessdom.com/anatoly-karpov-izvestia

“People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.”

Anatoly Karpov

Interview on Chessbase 06.07.2005 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2495

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