12th World Champion
1975 - 1985
FIDE Champion
1993 - 1999
Anatoly Evgenievich Karpov was born in Zlatoust, Russia in 1951.
His early rise in chess was swift, as he became a Candidate Master
by age eleven. At twelve, he was accepted into Mikhail Botvinnik's
prestigious chess school, though Botvinnik made the following
remark about the young Karpov: "The boy does not have a clue about
chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession."
Karpov acknowledged that his understanding of chess theory was very
confused at that time, and wrote later that the homework which
Botvinnik assigned greatly helped him, since it required that he
consult chess books and work diligently. Karpov improved so quickly
under Botvinnik's tutelage that he became the youngest Soviet
National Master in history at fifteen in 1966; this tied the record
established by Boris Spassky in 1952.
In April 1975, a few days before his 24th birthday FIDE declared
him the World Champion after Bobby Fischer, the current World
Champion, refused to defend his title. 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. He performed impressively and accumulated the finest
tournament record in history. He once said, "To be champion
requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a
strong human being as well." He retained his title until losing to
Garry Kasparov in a controversial match in 1985.
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. However, his victory was over-shadowed
by the independent championship match played at the same time
between the current World Champion, Kasparov and British
Grandmaster, Nigel Short. Both Karpov and Kasparov won their
championship matches and both claim the title of World
Champion.
The Riddle:
A man's integrity can be determined by his words. Only the unbroken
ones count.
The Puzzle:
- asperation
- istentialist
- piration
- hilarating
- istentialist
- pediency
- amination
- cluded
- aggeration
- citing
- pediency
- cluded
- cruciating
- istentialist
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