Umm we can never be sure because he technically beat Fischer but Fischer did have a awesome strength and a good reputation for crushing everyone so we cannot be sure although Fischer kind of gave up the match to him
Karpov himself said that when it came to quite maneuvering, he was superior to Spassky, Fischer and pretty much anyone, except maybe Petrosian. If anything, you may have to look to later players, such as Kramnik or Carlsen.
In 9.30min, when Henley is bringing up his concept of ''dividing the board in the middle'' to check the distribution of the pieces and mentions that he often would work with this concept in his class, Karpov's reaction is like: ''Yeah, why the fuck would I care?…let me finish MY game and just listen the fuck up, Henley, you might learn something here!''...
I must admit I used to dislike Karpov when he was the champion, he seemed so cold and emotionless and I thought he was fortunate that Fischer gave up the title allowing him in. I love him now. He seems like a really nice guy and deep down quite shy.
Out of 150 games between Karpov and Kasparov, Kasparov won just three more games. At there first clash when Karpov was 5-0 up out of six games needed he should have just kept going with yes even sharp tactical paths and even had he lost 2 or 3 games I’m sure he’d have got the vital 6th game to win. And at 5-0 he actually missed a certain endgame win which would have given him his desired 6-0 as he no doubt wanted to crush Kasparov 6-0 which psychologically would have been devastating for Kasparov in any future world championship challenge so he suddenly went for mega safe lines waiting for Kasparov to blunder but it backfired and after 7! draws he started to tire and started to lose games with the match finally abandoned at 5-3 and Kasparov won the rematch in Moscow. But even then in their future clashes Kasparov only just won those matches on a knife edge. Kasparov never met a young Karpov at his prime of youth which is a great shame because in the early seventies Karpov was losing on average just ONE game a year (!!) And I’m convinced Fischer feared him (though to be fair I think Fischer would have beaten him) and facing a young Karpov with full powers Fischer no doubt realised it was a risk and he didn’t want to take that risk because he’d been doing all the American chat shows and interviews saying how invincible he was and the idea of then losing a match against Karpov with America watching would have been too much for him to bare.
A lot of people miss this about Karpov... how absolutely close the matches between him and Kasparov were. Although Kasparov was an attacking monster, in some ways I consider Karpov to be the better player. He was in the top-2 position for so amazingly long.
I like Karpov. His book "Chess at the Top" is very good with a number of interesting and attacking games winning against Tal, Timman (two best game prizes), Korchnoi and Petrosian and other players. He was the strongest player at the time of Fischer's retirement from Chess. But he is also good for tactical players to study as he shows the logic of the game more clearly. But he is very likeable. I am not so keen on Kasparov. In interviews and analysis he calmly shows where he is beaten, in one opening book he shows a line in the opening he is discussing that includes one of Kasparov's great games.
While watching this, at about 12:00 I was suddenly struck with the realization that Karpov has created for himself an equivalent of "Interior Lines" in military terms. Kamsky must move pieces in a long circular route in order to shift from offense to defense, but Karpov only has to slide a piece one or two spaces. As an afterthought, who is the random girl that does such a terrible job in the commercial at !4:45?
+iChess.net Possibly so, as another note.... one thing I love about this interview is how you cleverly asked Karpov specific questions that he obviously loved, We can see his entire face absolutely light up in several places after one or another well placed question or comment.
+iChess.net Karpov is the most calm player I know of !Totally dominating his opponent by forcing him to fit in his picture.A fitting soundtrack in the beginning.What is the name of the soundtrack ?
I also get the sense that he is sensitive about his ability in the English language, and avoids "small talk" preferring to speak about the game, where is is able to speak more completely in english.
ANNA GAJESRSKA ZABRONILA MI WIARY W DOBREGO PANA BOGA!!!!!!!MILOSCI!!!!!!DOBROWOLNEGO KOCHANIA!!!!!!ZNIEWOLILA!!!!!!SZKODA CZASU!!!!!!JANUSZ SYTY.LISOWSCY I GAJERSCY!!!!!!!LISOWSKI Z MIODEM NA MORDZIE!!!!!!!!!JANUSZ STYTY.
POWOLANIE LEKARZA!!!!!!!MARZYMY O AKADEMI!!!!!!!NASZEJ!!!!!!!!!KOCHAM PRZYJACIOL!!!!!!!!!!!NIE POTRAFIE ZA NIKOGO SIE UCZYC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NIE LUBIE ZA NIKOGO MYSLEC!!!!!!!!!!OCZEKUJE SAMODZIELNOSCI!!!!!!!JESLI JEST MOZLIWA!!!!!!OCZYWISCIE!!!!!JANUSZ.
That's amazing technique! And also the way he plays on both flanks for half of the game, and the idea of making the opponent S pieces come deep into his position just to be stuck there.. An incredible game!
karpov is soft spoken and is of impeccable character, but in reality...he is a vicious king killer!
GM Anatoly Karpov is just another chess God.
Truly remarkable insight into his Game.Thanks too to GM Ron. CHEERS
Great we have dozens more Karpov videos coming, including a hard to find series he did with Dzindzi back in the day.
Karpov has always been my favourite world champion. He's the strongest positional player ever.
cc. cap Yes, maybe one of the strongest for sure!
cc. cap second, maybe third, after fischer and maybe petrosian
Umm we can never be sure because he technically beat Fischer but Fischer did have a awesome strength and a good reputation for crushing everyone so we cannot be sure although Fischer kind of gave up the match to him
Karpov himself said that when it came to quite maneuvering, he was superior to Spassky, Fischer and pretty much anyone, except maybe Petrosian. If anything, you may have to look to later players, such as Kramnik or Carlsen.
I respect the hell out of Karpov but I just prefer to watch Tal's style
Karpov is one of my favorite players and this game shows his genius!
In 9.30min, when Henley is bringing up his concept of ''dividing the board in the middle'' to check the distribution of the pieces and mentions that he often would work with this concept in his class, Karpov's reaction is like: ''Yeah, why the fuck would I care?…let me finish MY game and just listen the fuck up, Henley, you might learn something here!''...
Karpov is awesome!
I heard some GMs saying Karpov's style was boring. I am happy it isn't. This is beautiful game and also very quality lesson.
Karpov has to be the greatest positional player ever. What an incredible mastery of prophylaxis an strategy.
Another great Karpov game,thanks Will.I think i´m adopting Karpov´s style by analyzing his games,it´s ironic because i like the tactical game.
My fav Karpov game and one of my far games of all time. Thank you.
Karpov is best.
Karpov is awesome. He is humble and a great world champion.
A great representative of world champions.
I must admit I used to dislike Karpov when he was the champion, he seemed so cold and emotionless and I thought he was fortunate that Fischer gave up the title allowing him in. I love him now. He seems like a really nice guy and deep down quite shy.
Yes, he is a true class act!
thank you for sharing, nice done tutorial video, highly educational and detailed analysis of each game
thanks for commenting!
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Out of 150 games between Karpov and Kasparov, Kasparov won just three more games. At there first clash when Karpov was 5-0 up out of six games needed he should have just kept going with yes even sharp tactical paths and even had he lost 2 or 3 games I’m sure he’d have got the vital 6th game to win. And at 5-0 he actually missed a certain endgame win which would have given him his desired 6-0 as he no doubt wanted to crush Kasparov 6-0 which psychologically would have been devastating for Kasparov in any future world championship challenge so he suddenly went for mega safe lines waiting for Kasparov to blunder but it backfired and after 7! draws he started to tire and started to lose games with the match finally abandoned at 5-3 and Kasparov won the rematch in Moscow. But even then in their future clashes Kasparov only just won those matches on a knife edge. Kasparov never met a young Karpov at his prime of youth which is a great shame because in the early seventies Karpov was losing on average just ONE game a year (!!) And I’m convinced Fischer feared him (though to be fair I think Fischer would have beaten him) and facing a young Karpov with full powers Fischer no doubt realised it was a risk and he didn’t want to take that risk because he’d been doing all the American chat shows and interviews saying how invincible he was and the idea of then losing a match against Karpov with America watching would have been too much for him to bare.
A lot of people miss this about Karpov... how absolutely close the matches between him and Kasparov were. Although Kasparov was an attacking monster, in some ways I consider Karpov to be the better player. He was in the top-2 position for so amazingly long.
Kasparov have to calculate 17 to 20 moves to beat positional good of chess Karpov
"Knight is stupid on b1." Well put.
Karpov is basically Fischer had Fischer took up on 1.d4 and solid defenses at an early age. When you look at it his chess looks so simple and logical.
That's why the Karpov v Fischer match in 75 would've been one for the ages
I like Karpov. His book "Chess at the Top" is very good with a number of interesting and attacking games winning against Tal, Timman (two best game prizes), Korchnoi and Petrosian and other players. He was the strongest player at the time of Fischer's retirement from Chess. But he is also good for tactical players to study as he shows the logic of the game more clearly. But he is very likeable. I am not so keen on Kasparov. In interviews and analysis he calmly shows where he is beaten, in one opening book he shows a line in the opening he is discussing that includes one of Kasparov's great games.
Masterpiece !
Thanks!
Awesome video!
Thanks a lot, I missed it while focusing on the Big Picture.
Such a legend
every game is a diferent story
While watching this, at about 12:00 I was suddenly struck with the realization that Karpov has created for himself an equivalent of "Interior Lines" in military terms. Kamsky must move pieces in a long circular route in order to shift from offense to defense, but Karpov only has to slide a piece one or two spaces.
As an afterthought, who is the random girl that does such a terrible job in the commercial at !4:45?
+Jamie Campos Thanks for your analysis. But I don't know what do you mean with the "random girl" Perhaps is a youtube ad that I can't see.
+iChess.net Possibly so, as another note.... one thing I love about this interview is how you cleverly asked Karpov specific questions that he obviously loved, We can see his entire face absolutely light up in several places after one or another well placed question or comment.
+Jamie Campos That "random girl" is actually GM Irina Krush!
+iChess.net Karpov is the most calm player I know of !Totally dominating his opponent by forcing him to fit in his picture.A fitting soundtrack in the beginning.What is the name of the soundtrack ?
karpov is a busy guy - no time for the small talk
I also get the sense that he is sensitive about his ability in the English language, and avoids "small talk" preferring to speak about the game, where is is able to speak more completely in english.
Nice game.
What a game!
00:25
It's A vs B, A has moved twice. The expert is describing the opening and it's B's move.
The studio man whoever he is reaches for A's g1N.
Whit all respect for positional understending Carlsen is even superior now
Is that young Irina Krush in that old school commercial?
Have nice day.
Hey, I truly hate advertisement of all kind, but this one here 13:57 is simply charming.
makes sense - ive noticed other russians that speak english do the same thing
Karpov is best
If being polite and correct added to chess-skills, Kasparov would be no match for Karpov - I guess hardly anyone would.
genuis karpov
I was asking the same question to myself. Can someone please answer it?
Fkin beast.
KOCHAM PRZYJACIOL!!!!!!!!JANUSZ.
ANNA GAJESRSKA ZABRONILA MI WIARY W DOBREGO PANA BOGA!!!!!!!MILOSCI!!!!!!DOBROWOLNEGO KOCHANIA!!!!!!ZNIEWOLILA!!!!!!SZKODA CZASU!!!!!!JANUSZ SYTY.LISOWSCY I GAJERSCY!!!!!!!LISOWSKI Z MIODEM NA MORDZIE!!!!!!!!!JANUSZ STYTY.
Turned into a bird styl closed position!.. should just played the opening ;P
MARZYMY O DZIECIACH!!!!!CHYBA NIE MA SENSU,ZEBY POWTORZYLY NASZE BLEDY!!!!!!!!!JANUSZ.DOBRY PANIE BOZE!!!!!!!!!JANUSZ.
Pressure all the fucking time.
POWOLANIE LEKARZA!!!!!!!MARZYMY O AKADEMI!!!!!!!NASZEJ!!!!!!!!!KOCHAM PRZYJACIOL!!!!!!!!!!!NIE POTRAFIE ZA NIKOGO SIE UCZYC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NIE LUBIE ZA NIKOGO MYSLEC!!!!!!!!!!OCZEKUJE SAMODZIELNOSCI!!!!!!!JESLI JEST MOZLIWA!!!!!!OCZYWISCIE!!!!!JANUSZ.
DOBRY PANIE BOZE!!!!!!MATKO BOZA!!!!!!MISTRZOWIE!!!!!SWIECI!!!!!!ANILOWIE!!!!!DOBRE DUCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!JANUSZ.
there are no articles in Russian so it's kind of hard to get used to them for Russian people
(13;30 - 13:50). Only we,russians, can be so sneaky.
That's amazing technique! And also the way he plays on both flanks for half of the game, and the idea of making the opponent S pieces come deep into his position just to be stuck there..
An incredible game!
why in my in the sidebar appear snoop dog?
I hate how this guy monopolized the conversation.