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	Anatoly Karpov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karpov was born on May 23, 1951 in Zlatoust in the former Soviet Union and learned to play chess at the age of 4.
		Karpov was certainly not hurt by the fact that Spassky's chief opening analyst, 1955 Soviet Champion Efim Geller, defected to Karpov's side several months before the match.
		Karpov is on record saying that had he had the opportunity to fight Fischer for the crown like Kasparov had the opportunity to fight him, he (Karpov) could have been a much better player as a result.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anatoly_Karpov (2453 words)

	World Chess Championship : 1974 Karpov - Korchnoi Candidates final
		Karpov sealed his 44th move and the game was drawn when the second time control was reached.
		Karpov varied from his favorite line with 10.c3, and a level endgame was reached by move 25.
		Karpov defended accurately, while Korchnoi used most of his time, failed to find the most dangerous continuation, and was left with 10 minutes for his last 25 moves.
	www.mark-weeks.com /chess/74kkc1.htm (1619 words)

	MSN Encarta - Karpov, Anatoly Yevgenyevich
		Karpov, Anatoly Yevgenyevich, born in 1951, Russian chess player and longtime world champion, the youngest player ever awarded the title of Soviet Master.
		Karpov's attempts to regain the championship from Kasparov in 1987 and 1990 were unsuccessful.
		Karpov defended his FIDE title in 1998 but lost it in 1999 when he refused to agree to the organization’s tournament format.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579389/Karpov_Anatoly_Yevgenyevich.html (367 words)

	Chess Champion of the World Anatoly Karpov
		In 1973 A. Karpov started his struggle for the World Champion's title: at the Interzonal FIDE Tournament in Leningrad he took the 1-2-d place.
		In the pretenders' quarter-match (Moscow, 1974) A. Karpov defeated L. Polugayevsky (+3, -0, =5), in the semi-final match (Leningrad, 1974) - B. Spassky (+4, -1, =6), and in the final (Moscow, 1974) V. Korchnoi was defeated (+3, -2, =19).
		Karpov lost with the score of 11 : 13 (+ 3, - 5, = 16), and Kasparov became the 13-th World Champion.
	www.chessebook.com /history_1.php?chem=kar (446 words)

	UNICEF - press release
		Karpov was recently made UNICEF's Regional Ambassador for Central and Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic States.
		Karpov will concentrate his efforts are roiling with change - places where millions of young people have been hit by growing poverty, weakened social safety nets, ethnic discrimination and armed conflict over the past decade.
		Karpov said he will help build the Global Movement for Children by drawing public attention to the needs and rights of children in the region's 27 countries, and will take part in key regional events leading up to the September 2001 UN Special Session on Children.
	www.unicef.org /newsline/00pr67.htm (508 words)

	Anatoly Karpov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Karpov beat by +3=5 in the first Candidates match to face former World Champion Boris Spassky in the next round.
		Karpov's tournament career also reached a peak at the exceptional Montreal "Super-Grandmaster" tournament in 1979, where he ended joint first with Mikhail Tal ahead of a field of superb grandmasters like Jan Timman,, Boris Spassky, and.
		To illustrate Karpov's dominance over his peers as champion, his score was +11 -2 =20 v Spassky, +5 =12 v Robert Hübner, +6 -1 = 16 v Ulf Andersson, +3 -1 =10 v Vasily Smyslov, +1 =16 v Tal, +10 -2 =13 v Ljubojevic.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Anatoly_Karpov (2884 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Karpov to air complaints during Vegas chess tourney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Karpov spokesman Shiloh Quinn will add an hourlong radio talk show to the arsenal of weapons the Russian grandmaster is using in a saber-rattling confrontation with the Federation Internationale de Echecs (FIDE).
		Karpov complained that the title he won in January 1998 in Lausanne, Switzerland, should have been his for two years, as has always been the case.
		Karpov contends his contract called for him to be consulted on a competition date, and that he had made engagements around the world that would prevent him from playing in Las Vegas over the next month.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/1999/jul/28/509105944.html (431 words)

	RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: K :: Karpov
		Karpov narrowly retained his title against the Soviet defector Viktor Korchnoi in 1978 and beat Korchnoi again handily in 1981.
		Karpov defended his title against his countryman Garry Kasparov in 1984-85.
		Karpov regained the FIDE world chess champion title in 1993 after Kasparov left FIDE to form a rival organisation.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/k/karpov.shtml (388 words)

	AllRefer.com - Anatoly Karpov (Games And Hobbies, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Karpov won (1975) the world championship by default when Bobby Fischer, the titleholder, refused to agree to terms for a match.
		Karpov regained (1993) the International Chess Federation (FIDE) championship in a playoff after Kasparov formed a rival association and was expelled from the federation.
		Disputes with the sponsoring organization prompted Karpov to refuse to participate in a tournament the following year, and he was stripped of his FIDE championship.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Karpov-A.html (233 words)

	Anatoly Karpov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karpov later attempted to set up another match with Fischer, but all the negotiations fell through.
		Karpov narrowly won the last game to take the match 6–5, with 21 draws.
		It came as a surprise, then, that Karpov lost a Candidates Match against Nigel Short in 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karpov (2453 words)

	Anatoly Karpov
		Anatoly Evgenievich Karpov was born in Zlatoust, Russia in 1951.
		Karpov was embarrassed that he had acquired the title in this manner and subsequently played in many strong tournaments to prove that he deserved to be World Champion.
		In 1993 Kasparov rejected FIDE leaving Karpov to play in the official FIDE World Championship match in which he defeated Jan Timman of the Netherlands.
	www.chesscorner.com /worldchamps/karpov/karpov.htm (325 words)

	The Daily Dirt Chess Blog: Karpov in Argentina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anatoly Karpov is on a tour of Argentina (Spanish) in the run-up to the FIDE world championship in San Luis.
		Karpov spent most of his time at his board, even sitting down in front of him often.
		According to one report, likely the one acirce's source is quoting, Karpov was not in a good mood after the loss and didn't show for the prize-giving, leaving the Argentine vice-president waiting in vain on the stage.
	www.chessninja.com /dailydirt/archives/karpov_in_argentina.htm (914 words)

	The chess games of Anatoli Karpov
		Anatoly Karpov was born in 1951 in the Ural Mountains.
		Karpov's purely competitive approach is based on a deep knowledge and understanding of his favourite set-ups, as well as on the maximal exploitation of the minimal resources in a position.
		I understand that Karpov's play till that point was interesting, but it's not all that much fun to watch a slow positional edge being grown only to end with a huge tactical oversight by the other player.
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessplayer?pid=20719 (1607 words)

	Anatoly Karpov Unofficial Page
		Anatoly Karpov is a living legend of the chess; he dominated the world of the chess for over a decade (75-85) and he is the largest winner of tournaments of the history of the chess, with more than 160 due tournaments.
		Karpov is considered the best positional player of history of chess.
		Anatoly Karpov is participating in the Memorial Najdorf 2001, accomplished in Argentina.
	www.geocities.com /karpovchess (104 words)

	Anatoly Karpov -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Karpov was certainly not hurt by the fact that Spassky's chief opening analyst, 1955 (Click link for more info and facts about Soviet Champion) Soviet Champion (Click link for more info and facts about Efim Geller) Efim Geller, defected to Karpov's side several months before the match.
		Karpov had cemented his position as the world's best player and world champion when (Click link for more info and facts about Garry Kasparov) Garry Kasparov arrived on the scene.
		Karpov remained a formidable opponent for most of the (The time of life between 80 and 90) eighties.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anatoly_karpov.htm (2736 words)

	National Review: See Karpov! Hear Karpov! Admission: star wars - Viktor Karpov on Strategic Defense Initiative - column
		Karpov appeared at a press conference, and he might just as well have been speaking to the Democratic National Convention, because his words were directed to American public opinion.
		What Karpov did was to answer (though that is not quite the word for it) the statement made by the U.S. representative at the conference, held every five years, to review the Anti-Ballistic Missite Treaty of 1972.
		Karpov told the press (read: the Democratic delegates) that the Soviet Union would have no alternative but to suppose that we were embarked on a program, in the paraphrase of Paul Lewis of the New York Times, to "tip the nuclear balance" in our favor.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n20_v40/ai_6701984 (826 words)

	rediff.com: Karpov acknowledges Anand as champion
		Though he won the title in Teheran in December 2000, there was a shadow cast on his claim, with Anatoly Karpov going in for arbitration.
		Karpov repudiated this format, demanding that he be seeded straight into the quarterfinal stage, at the least.
		Once Anand was crowned world champion, Karpov went in for arbitration to press his own claims.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2001/jan/11anand.htm (819 words)

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		Game 6 was a 29 move Karpov victory playing the Black side of the Petroff; Game 10 was a wild, 59 move Kamsky win with the White pieces, where both kings spent much of the time near the middle of the board, and Game 14 was a positional win with Black by Karpov.
		Karpov presents no analysis and simply notes that he spent a "great deal of time along here." Christiansen recommends 18...Qe6 in place of Karpov's 18...a5 in the game and suggests that Black gets compensation for the pawn minus after 18...Qe6 19 Qxe6 fxe6 20 hxg6 hxg6 21 Rxh8 Bxh8 22 Bxg6+ Ke7.
		Karpov's analysis in "Elista" may not be as comprehensive as one might wish, but it does get to the point.
	members.aol.com /elcc90/chess1/review/ed.txt (1466 words)

	Chessworks Features - Karpov Wins FIDE Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They are FIDE Champion, Anatoly Karpov of Russia, PCA (Professional Chess Association) Champion Garry Kasparov of Russia and famous American chess hero, Robert Fischer.
		Karpov's opening preparation seemed better, which is extremely important for competition at the highest level.
		Karpov tries to take control of the important diagonal and reminds his opponent that the White King is also vulnerable.
	www.chessmate.com /karpov.html (771 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - And what does Karpov think?
		Anatoly Karpov, the 12th world champion (from 1975—1985) and FIDE world champion (after the split with Kasparov) from 1993—1999, is one of the greatest players of our time.
		Last weekend Karpov attended the celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the German Chess Federation in Leipzig, as an honoured guest and speaker.
		Karpov: Makropolous said in Prague that there are a lot of things that are a little strange in the proposals.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=306 (1322 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Karpov on Karpov: A Memoirs of a Chess World Champion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Karpov, the Russian who gained the title of world chess champion after American Bobby Fisher relinquished it in 1975, then 10 years later lost the crown to his fellow countryman Gary Kasparov, proves that chess is not a game.
		Furiously competitive, Karpov regrets most that he never played Fisher, whom he admires, and is not at all gracious about his toughest opponents, Victor Korchnoi and Kasparov, claiming that the latter did not win, but that he himself lost.
		Karpov also offers insightful commentary on numerous other chess legends such as his long-standing challenger Victor Korchnai and American Bobby Fischer, whom he was scheduled to play in a heralded match that never took place.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0689120605?v=glance (1092 words)

	AOL Games: Chess, Antoly Karpov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anatoly Karpov's life is just a long series of records and unbelievable performances each time all the more astonishing.
		Karpov possesses the deepest strategic understanding and most flawless endgame technique ever known.
		Karpov used his aura to play a political role.
	gprojects.web.aol.com /chesspromo/archive/karpov_vs_kasparov/karpovbio.html (347 words)

	Mephisto Chess Challenger - Karpov, A
		Karpov wins his pawn back, after which the white squares in the computer's position are very weak.
		Karpov has played very well up to here, but it remains a mistery to me why he doesn't try to advance his passed pawn.
		Karpov sees no way to make headway and steers the game towards a draw.
	www.rebel.nl /jeroen3.htm (329 words)

	Karpov, Anatoly on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mating game: as their battles continue, Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov have become the best of enemies.
		Anatoly Karpov is straining in vain to keep his world chess title from Gary Kasparov.
		Anatoly Karpov jeudi à Santa Clara L'ex-champion mondial d'échecs, le Russe Anatoly Karpov, a donné jeudi à Cuba le coup d.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/k/karpov-a1.asp (469 words)

	Lindsborg, Kansas Chamber of Commerce - Little Sweden USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Karpov successfully defended his title until 1985, and then regained it in 1993 when he again won the world championship.
		Karpov established more than 30 chess schools throughout the world, including schools in Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East.
		Karpov will work with other grandmasters to develop the curriculum for the school in Lindsborg.
	www.lindsborg.org /chess_school.html (1231 words)

	GN Online: Georgiev ousts Karpov
		Bulgaria's Kiril Georgiev ousted the last of the former world champions when he beat the legendary Anatoly Karpov 2.5-1.5 to enter the semifinals of the UAE Grand Prix chess championship which has earned a reputation of sinking highly rated players.
		Karpov lost the first tie break, but looked like winning the second, when in a flash Georgiev took away the rook and claimed an important victory.
		K. Georgiev bt A. Karpov 2.5-1.5, V. Topalov lost to P. Leko 1.5-2.5; E. Bacrot lost to A. Grischuk 0-2, Z. maiparashvili lost to A. Shirov 1-3, A. Dreev bt Zhu Chen 2.5-1.5; A. Khalifman bt J. Lautier 1.5 -0.5.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=46656 (771 words)

	FIDE Online. FIDE News: FIDE Vice President GM Zurab Azmaiparashvili`s reply to Anatoly Karpov`s recent interview
		For me Karpov`s interview on ChessBase was not a surprise as I am very well aware of the ungratefulness of his nature.
		Karpov is aiming at the office of the FIDE President.
		Karpov, especially in the light of the recent verdict of the court in Calvià, which announced that I am totally innocent.
	www.fide.com /news.asp?id=769 (569 words)

	Karpov, Anatoly Yevgenyevich -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Karpov moved to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) with his family early in life.
		A child prodigy, he learned to play chess at the age of four and was rated a first-category player by the time he was nine.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9044764?tocId=9044764 (444 words)

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