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Anatoli Karpov
23 May 1951
Anatoli Karpov played in 1 movies in the Documentary, Music genres.
Anatoli Karpov got succeed with average imdb rating 6.7.
Russian chess champion, at the age of 11 he became the youngest candidate master of chess in the Soviet Union and at the age of 15 he became the Soviet Union's youngest chess master. Karpov succeeded Bobby Fischer as world champion in 1975, a title he held until losing to Gary Kasparov in 1985. He lost to Kasparov again in 1990. In 1998, Karpov won the FIDE World Chess Championship, defeating Viswanathan Anand of India in the final. He lost the FIDE World Chess title in 1999 to Russian Alexander... Khalifman. He defected from the U.S.S.R. in July 1976 and asked for asylum in Holland, but later returned to make his home in Leningrad and in Moscow.Read more Less
