Biography of chess player Karpov

It has a huge number of awards and titles in the chess world. The holder of nine chess Oscars,,,,,,,, Honorary citizen of Chrysostom and Tula, then the chief engineer at the factories of the military-industrial complex, the author of 89 inventions introduced into production. Co -author of the Grad system and ball bombs. Anatoly has a sister Larisa, 5 years older than him.

Anatoly Karpov’s chess career to play chess began to teach him his father when Anatoly was 5 years old. Anatoly Karpov was engaged in the chess section in the sports pavilion at the Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant. The first coach was Dmitry Zularkin, who worked as an engineer at this factory. He drove Karpov in the year of the regional championship among schoolchildren in Chelyabinsk, where Anatoly took 1st place.

At the age of 9, Anatoly Karpov received the first category, in the year he fulfilled the norm of a candidate for master of sports, and at the age of 14 he became a master of sports of the USSR. However, then the Patriarch of Soviet chess Botvinnik was mistaken in the forecast of the development of large chess talent. Subsequently, the world champion denied this prediction. In the year, the Karpov family moved to Tula.

In the year, he successfully overcame all the steps of the candidate matches in the quarterfinals on Leo Polugaevsky without taking into account the drawing, in the semifinals - Boris Spassky, in the final - from V. Korchny in the photo: Soviet chess player Lev Polugaevsky, the chief judge of the match V. However, it soon became known that the in the spring of the year Robert Fisher after long -term negotiations from the year Fide refused the match with the applicant, and Anatoly Karpov was proclaimed the twelfth world chess champion.

He turned out to be the only world champion in history, who not only received the title without playing in the match or tournament for the world championship, but did not play a single party with the previous champion. In the years, Anatoly Karpov successfully defended his title in matches with Korchik. However, a new formidable adversary appeared - young Harry Kasparov.

The confrontation of Karpov and Kasparov was one of the most grandiose chess in the history. In total, Karpov and Kasparov spent 5 matches for the title of world champion-more than any other pair of rivals. However, Karpov failed to win the sixth batch.

Kasparov withstood the onslaught, made a series of draws, and then won 3 parties. The match was interrupted on February 15 during the score in favor of Karpov without announcing the winner. In the same year, a new match began between the same opponents, which Kasparov won Kasparov won the match-match, and also defended his title in two more matches. Despite the loss of the title, Anatoly Karpov showed extremely high results for a number of years.

His asset is a grand victory at a tournament in Linares - one of the highest tournament successes of all times - against the best chess players of his time. In the year, Karpov managed to defeat Kasparov in an unofficial match for quick chess of four parties with a score of 2, 5. The penultimate world champion Anand, which then began its ascent to the chess Olympus, was twice defeated by Karpov in matches and years.

Since the year, he became a senior researcher at the Department of Political Economy of the Humanitarian Department of Moscow State University. Since the year, Anatoly Karpov has become the president of the International Association of World Funds - the former name - the Soviet Foundation of the World. Since the year, he replaced the chairman of the Commission on Environmental Safety and Environmental Protection of the Public Chamber.

Since the year, Anatoly Evgenievich has been a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The following posts were also held: the chairman of the organizing committee and the President of the All-Russian competitions “Belaya Rook”, the chairman of the Council, the president of the Mikhail Botvinnik interregional public fund, the vice-president of the International Federation of Russian Chess, the President of the World Wide and Children's Chess Olympiads, Chairman of the Chernobyl Church Council, and chairman International Festival "Chess in Schools".

The founder of the Chess Karpov company, specializing in the production of sets for playing chess. He starred in the film "Tsugtswang" directed by Matyoy's career as a chess player. In the year, the film “World Champion” was released about the legendary chess match for the title of world champion between the Soviet Grassmaster and the world champion Anatoly Karpov and the Grandmaster, “irrevocable” Viktor Korchny, who took place from July 18 to October 18 at the city resort of Bagios Filippins.

Karpova was played by Ivan Yankovsky. He always led an active life, both in the state and social sphere. In the year, Anatoly Evgenievich supported Boris Yeltsin in the presidential election. In the year, Anatoly Karpov ran for deputies of the State Duma from Tula. On July 19, the legislative activities of Anatoly Evgenievich voted as a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation for raising the retirement age.In the years, during the execution of the powers of the State Duma of the VI and VII convocations, Anatoly Karpov acted as a co -author of 50 legislative initiatives and amendments to the draft federal laws.

The son Anatoly was born in the family, but they did not live together for long. The first marriage of Karpov was destroyed in the year, which was associated with a long absence of a house due to regular chess tournaments, training sports camps and social activities. Daughter - Sophia Rod. Karpov is one of the most famous philatelists within the CIS. The cost of his collection of postage stamps, according to some estimates, is at least 13 million euros.