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It uses material from the Wikipedia article Anatoly Karpov. Anatoly Karpov Biography. He is considered one of the greatest players in chess history, especially in tournament play: he is the most successful tournament player in history with over first-places to his credit. His overall record is 1, wins, losses, and 1, draws in 3, games.

His peak Elo rating is Grandmaster Karpov was born in Zlatoust in the former Soviet Union and learned to play chess at the age of 4. At age 12 he was accepted into Mikhail Botvinnik's super-prestigious chess school. He became the youngest Soviet National Master in history at 15, and won in his first international chess tournament several months later.

But his career really took off in when he became the first Soviet player since Boris Spassky to win the World Junior Chess Championship with a score of 10 out of Soon afterwards he tied for 4th place at an international tournamnent in Caracas, Venezuela and became the world's youngest Grandmaster.

Albert Silver Born in the US, he grew up in Paris, France, where he completed his Baccalaureat, and after college moved to Rio de Janeiro.

Candidate The 's showed a major improvement in his game. The latter qualified him for the Candidates cycle, which determined who was allowed challenge the reigning World Champion, Bobby Fischer. Karpov was on record saying that he believed Spassky would easily beat him and win the Candidates cycle to face Fischer, and that he Karpov would win the following Candidates cycle in