Karpov

Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vassili Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Boris Spasski, Viktor Korchnoi, Anatoli Karpov and Gari Kasparov are extraordinary and very famous chess players, all of them from Russia.

I also learned to admire these chess players: Smyslov, Spassky, Karpov, Kasparov, Keres, and Carlsen. There are, therefore, twelve great chess players of my choice.

A. Karpov vs. B. Spassky, Candidates Tournament semifinal, Leningrad, 1974. Anyone who knows this game knows how much beauty there can be in the game of chess.

In six years, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov played against each other five matches (144 games, 5540 moves) for the world chess championship.