Anatoly Karpov at the 41st USSR Championship (Moscow, 1973

A blog post dedicated to four key games by Anatoly Karpov played at the 41st USSR Championship - one of the strongest championships of them all - plus some brief background to the event. Karpov in play v. Polugaevsky in the 13th round of the 41st USSR Championship. (Photo credit: Novosti Press.) The 41st USSR…

Anatoly Karpov at the 41st USSR Championship (Moscow, 1973

USSR Chess Championship - Wikipedia

Chess_Informant (@Chess_Informant) / X

World Chess Championship 1984–1985 - Wikipedia

Top 5 World Chess Championships That Never Happened - Chess

Chess, SMERSH and Petra Leeverik, who waited

Do You Like Annotated Games?

Soviet Visuals - World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov (right) holds

On this day in 1985, Garry Kasparov defeated Anatoly Karpov 13-11

198 Boris Spassky Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Images

Viktor Korchnoi Soviet Vintage Chess Book. Chess Books USSR

Chess_Informant (@Chess_Informant) / X

Anatoly Karpov's 65th birthday

Anatoly Karpov celebrates his 60th birthday