Polgár is the only woman to have won a game from a current world number one player, and has defeated nine current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

In 1998 Polgár defeated Anatoly Karpov in a match of " action " chess ( 30 minutes per game ).

In the 1974 Candidates ' matches, Spassky first defeated American Robert Byrne in San Juan, Puerto Rico by 4½ – 1½ (+ 3 − 0 = 3 ); he then lost the semifinal match to Anatoly Karpov in Leningrad, despite winning the first game, (+ 1 − 4

In this knock-out format tournament he defeated Gata Kamsky 1½ – ½, Karpov 2 – 0, Viswanathan Anand 1½ – ½, and finally the World Champion Garry Kasparov 1½ – ½ to win the first prize of approximately 75, 000 USD.

In the next cycle, after winning the 1987 Tilburg Interzonal he defeated Valery Salov, Lajos Portisch, and Jonathan Speelman, but lost in the final to Anatoly Karpov in 1990.

In a blitz chess tournament in Reykjavík, Iceland, Carlsen defeated former world champion Anatoly Karpov on 17 March 2004.

* 1975-Anatoly Karpov becomes the twelfth World Champion without having defeated the reigning champion as Fischer forfeits his crown.

FIDE stripped Kasparov of the FIDE World Championship title, and instead held a rival match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman, the two final players Short had defeated to win the Candidates Tournament.

In perhaps its most famous appearance, Miles defeated reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov in the 1980 European Team Championship in Skara, Sweden.

He has defeated almost every top Grandmaster active during his career, including world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.

Topalov has also been similarly denounced by numerous top players, including former World Champions Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky, and Viswanathan Anand, grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi, former US Champions Lev Alburt and Yasser Seirawan, and others.

Savon, though then only an International Master, finished well ahead of former world champions Mikhail Tal and Vasily Smyslov ( both scoring 13. 5 ), future world champion Anatoly Karpov ( 13 ), and a host of other strong grandmasters, including Leonid Stein ( 12 ); David Bronstein and Lev Polugaevsky ( both 11. 5 ); Mark Taimanov ( 11 ); and Efim Geller ( 9. 5 ).

At Moscow 1981, he joined Kasparov and Polugaevsky in second place, behind Karpov.

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.

Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.

In game 19, Korchnoi succeeded in winning a long endgame, then notched a speedy victory after a blunder by Karpov two games later.

Three more draws, the last agreed by Karpov in a clearly better position, closed the match, as he thus prevailed + 3 − 2

* 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

In one of her games against Karpov, he blundered, allowing Polgár to utilize a famous, ancient sacrifice first employed by Emanuel Lasker against Bauer in 1889.

* 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.

* December 31 – Russian Garry Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov.

The route which now is known as the classic route, via the Razdelnaya Peak and NW Ridge, was first climbed in 1954 by the team of Soviet climbers under the direction of V. Kovalev ( P. Karpov, E. Nagel, V. Narishkin, V. Nozdryuhin ).

In November and December, Spassky finished the year by tying for sixth with Tal, scoring + 4 − 2 = 11, at the Alekhine Memorial in Moscow, which was won by Stein and Anatoly Karpov, the latter's first top-class success.

The four-game portion was won by Karpov 2½ – 1½ ( 1 win, 3 draws ), and the rapid-play portion also went to Karpov, 1½ – ½ ( 1 win, 1 draw ).< ref >

Miles beat Karpov again three years later in Bath in a game that was part of the BBC's Mastergame series, but it was only shown by the ( co-producing ) German television network, due to a BBC technicians ' strike at the time of broadcast.

Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any specific individuals, the character of the American was loosely based on chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer, while elements of the story may have been inspired by the chess careers of Russian grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.

Sir Nigel admits to sabotaging the KGB's British operation by leaking disinformation through Berenson to General Karpov, that they were closing in on their suspect.

One subvariation, frequently played by Karpov, including four games of his 1987 world championship match against Kasparov in Seville, Spain, is the Seville Variation, after 6 ... Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 0-0 10. 0-0 Bg4 11. f3 Na5 12. Bxf7 +, long thought a poor move by theory, as the resultant light-square weakness had been believed to give Black more than enough compensation for the pawn.

Despite Tarrasch's criticism, many players consider 4. Ng5 White's best chance for an advantage and it has been played by World Champions Wilhelm Steinitz, Bobby Fischer, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Viswanathan Anand.

White can prevent this by 5. Nb5 d6, when 6. c4 leads to a version of the Maróczy Bind favoured by Karpov.

She finished in the middle of the pack, tied for sixth – tenth position with Karpov, Topalov and Jeroen Piket and an even score of 6½ points in thirteen games.

In his return to tournament play after the loss to Korchnoi, he tied for first at Bugojno 1978 on 10 / 15 with Karpov, both players scoring + 6-1 = 8 to finish a point ahead of Timman.

His overall performance in Olympiad play is impressive: + 78 − 1 = 50 ( only one game lost, to Robert Hübner, out of 129 played ), for 79. 8 per cent, the third all-time best performance after Mikhail Tal and Anatoly Karpov.

In the following game, using the " hedgehog " formation he in part originated ( characterized by a half-open c-file and pawns on a6, b6, d6, and e6, knights on d7 and f6, bishops on b7 and e7, a rook on c8, and kingside castling ), Andersson inflicts upon Anatoly Karpov the latter's first loss as world champion: Karpov – Andersson, Milan 1975 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5 d6 6. c4 Nf6 7. N1c3 a6 8. Na3 Be7 9. Be2 0-0 10. 0-0 b6 11. Be3 Bb7 12. Rc1 Re8 13. Qb3 Nd7 14. Rfd1 Rc8 15. Rd2 Qc7 16. Qd1 Qb8 17. f3 Ba8 18. Qf1 Nce5 19. Nab1 Nf6 20. Kh1 h6 21. Rdd1 Bf8 22. Nd2 Rcd8 23. Qf2 Ned7 24. a3 d5 25. cxd5 exd5 26. exd5 Bd6 27. Nf1 Rxe3 ( an exchange sacrifice ) 28. Nxe3 Bxh2 29. Nf1 Bf4 30. Rc2 b5 31. Bd3 Nb6 32. Be4 Nc4 33. a4 Re8 34. axb5 axb5 35. Re2 Be5 36. Qc5 Nd6 37. Na2 Ndxe4 38. fxe4 Bd6 39. Qc2 Re5 40. g3 Qe8 41. Rde1 Bb7 42. Kg1 Nh7 43. Nc1 Ng5 44. Nd2 Bb4 45. Kf2 Bxd2 46. Rxd2 Nxe4 + 47. Rxe4 Rxe4 48. Ne2 Bc8 49. Nc3 Re1 50. Ne2 Ra1 51. Rd4 Qd8 52. Qc6 Bd7 53. Qd6 Qe8 54. Qf4 Qc8 55. b4 Bh3 56. Qe4 Bf5 57. Qe3 Qc2 58. g4 Bd7 59. Qe4 Qb3 60. Qd3 Qb2 61. Qe4 Ra8 62. Qe3 Ra2 63. d6 Ra8 64. Re4 Bc6 65. Qd4 Qb1 66. Re7 Qh1 67. Qf4 Qg2 + 68. Ke1 Ra1 + 69. Kd2 Qd5 + 70. Qd4 Ra2 + 71. Kc3 Qf3 + 72. Re3 Ra3 + 73. Kd2 Ra2 + 74. Ke1 Qh1 + 75. Kf2 Qg2 + 76. Ke1 Qh1 + 77. Kf2 Ra1 78. Rc3 Qg2 + 79. Ke3 Qf3 + 0 – 1

Following ten consecutive draws, Korchnoi threw away a winning position in the seventeenth game to give Karpov a 3 – 0 lead.

* April 3 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.

For example, in Karpov – Browne, San Antonio 1972, after 1. c4 c5 2. b3 Nf6 3. Bb2 g6?

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: Karpov vs Azmaiparashvili, USSR Championship, Moscow 1983: 1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3.

* 1984-In a controversial decision, the FIDE president abandons the first World Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov after 48 games with Karpov leading 5 – 3.

In 1996, Kamsky played a 20-game match against Anatoly Karpov for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996 title at Elista in Kalmykia, losing 7½ – 10½ (+ 3 = 9 − 6 ).

The Flohr-Zaitsev Variation of the Closed Ruy Lopez ( 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0-0 Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 0-0 9. h3 Bb7 10. d4 Re8 ) was taken up in the 1980s with success by World Champion Anatoly Karpov.

Gligorić had the following record against the world champions he played against: Max Euwe + 2-0 = 5, Mikhail Botvinnik + 2 − 2 = 6, Vasily Smyslov + 6 − 8 = 28, Tigran Petrosian + 8 − 11 = 19, Mikhail Tal + 2 − 10 = 22, Boris Spassky + 0 − 6 = 16, Bobby Fischer + 4 − 7 = 8, Anatoly Karpov + 0 − 4 = 6 and Garry Kasparov + 0 − 3

The apparently modest 3. e3 prepares immediate recovery of the pawn and has often been employed by strong players, including Anatoly Karpov.

Anatoly Karpov – Anthony Miles, European Team Championship, Skara 1980: 1. e4 a6 2. d4 b5 3. Nf3 Bb7 4. Bd3 Nf6 5. Qe2 e6 6. a4 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. Nbd2 b4 9. e5 Nd5 10. Ne4 Be7 11. 0-0 Nc6 12. Bd2 Qc7 13. c4 bxc3 14. Nxc3 Nxc3 15. Bxc3 Nb4 16. Bxb4 Bxb4 17. Rac1 Qb6 18. Be4 0-0 !?