The USSR Chess Championship was played from 1921 to 1991. Organized by the USSR Chess Federation, it was the strongest national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners. It was held as a round-robin tournament with the exception of… Continue reading
by National Life Master Loal Davis Wilhelm Steinitz May 18th 1836 Max Euwe May 20th 1901 Anatoly Karpov May 23rd 1951 The complete PGN notation of the games/notes below are contained in their entirety within the Comments to this post. Vienna – 1860 White “Steinitz, Wilhelm” Black “P”… Continue reading
Anatoly Karpov Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov The following game is a fine example of Karpov fighting “down” the exchange – with an… Continue reading
Classical games: Anatoly Karpov vs. Boris Spassky 14 – 2, 23 draws.Including rapid/exhibition games: Karpov vs. Spassky 15 – 3, 25 draws. Karpov vs. Spassky FIDE World Cup 1982 – YouTube [Event “15 min, Hamburg-TV”][Site “15 min, Hamburg-TV”][Date “1982.??.??”][EventDate “?”][Round “?”][Result “1/2-1/2”][White “Boris Spassky”][Black “Anatoly Karpov”][ECO “C42”][WhiteElo “?”][BlackElo “?”][PlyCount “103”] 1.… Continue reading
Jan Timman Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world’s leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as… Continue reading
by National Life Master Loal Davis Karpov (Left) vs Timman (Right) Jan Timman of the Netherlands lands the first point in the third game of his match against Anatoly Karpov. It wasn’t a great game, but it did show that Karpov tends to think positionally first – well… Continue reading
Kasparov-Karpov {7} 1990 The 1990 World Chess Championship match between World Champion Garry Kasparov and {Challenger} [#12 WC] Anatoly Karpov was held October 8 to December 30. The match location was split, the first 12 games were played in New York, USA and the last 12 were played in Lyons, France. GAME 7…… No surprise Karpov played… Continue reading
Anatoly Karpov vs. Ivan Morovic: January 8-14 2015, GM Anatoly Karpov facing the best Chile player GM Ivan Morovic in a match of two classical and two rapid games. The first stage was held in Casino de Arica .. GM Anatoly Karpov 1.5-0.5 [Classical Games] GM Ivan Morovic 1.5-0.5 [Rapid Games] Game 1 Karpov-Morovic 1-0 move 28.e5 Go… Continue reading
Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman played a hard fought and well played match in Groningen from December 26th through December 29th. The first three games (See Comments for PGN files) were all drawn. Don’t be misled, these were not draws that avoided fights; they were just well played and… Continue reading
Image/Yury Kolomytseva The Sberbank GM Rapid tournament in Kiev, Ukraine takes place 5th to 7th June 2013. Rounds at 12:00 BST, 13:30 BSTand 15:00 BST.The main event is a rapid tournament (time control: 25 minutes + 10 seconds increment) with ten players playing a round robin with three rounds on each… Continue reading
