Anatoly Karpov

Article written by my student Jeremy Tomy

Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov is considered to be one of the greatest chess players of all time, and is the 12th World Champion in chess (1975-1985). He was born on May 23rd, 1951, in the city of Zlatoust, Russia. Karpov had started playing chess from the age of four. Due to his talent he had shown, his career started to grow immensely, and over time, he earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 19. Some of Karpov’s most notable games are, Karpov vs Kasparov, 1984, Karpov vs Anand, 1998, Karpov vs Spassky, 1979, and so forth. In 1969, Karpov was the first Soviet player to win the World Junior Chess Championship title. Therefore, we can see that Anatoly Karpov was one of the greatest, most brilliant, and most dominant chess players of all time.

Karpov profile on Chess.com

Best games of Karpov on Chessgames.com 

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Brilliant GM Game by Anatoly Karpov

Below is a brilliant GM Game by former World Champion Anatoly Karpov.

White: Joel Lautier

Black: Anatoly Karpov

Linares (Round 8), 1995

Result: 0-1

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. Qxc3 b6 7. Bg5 Bb7 8. e3 d6 9. f3 Nbd7 10. Bd3 c5 11. Ne2 Rc8 12. Qb3 h6 13. Bh4 cxd4 14. exd4 d5 15. c5 Ba8 16. Ba6 Rc7 17. Bg3 bxc5 18. Bxc7 Qxc7 19. Qc3 e5 20. Bd3 exd4 21. Nxd4 Re8+ 22. Kf1 Qb6 23. Nf5 d4 24. Qd2 Ne5 25. Re1 Re6 26. Bb1

Bb7 27. Kf2 d3 28. Rhf1 c4+ 29. Kg3 Nh5+ 30. Kh3 Ng6 31. g3 Bc8 32. Re4 Qc5 33. g4 Ngf4+ 34. Rxf4 Re2 35. Qc1 Nxf4+ 36. Qxf4 Bxf5 37. gxf5 Rxb2 38. Re1 Qf2 39. Qg3 Qxg3+ 40. hxg3 Rxb1 White resigns 0-1

Click here to play through this game: my Lichess Study page, Chessgames

Read about the Linares Tournaments on Wiki

Copy-Cat Trap

If the opponent copies your moves, you can try the copy-cat trap.

1. e4 e5

2. Nf3 Nf6

3. Nxe5 Nxe4?

[correct move is 3...d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Qe2 Qe7 (=)]

4. Qe2 Nf6??

[better move is 4...Qe7 5. Qxe4 d6 6. d4 dxe5 7. dxe5 (±)]

5. Nc6+ Be7

[if 5...Qe7 6. Nxe7 (+−)]

6. Nxd8

(+−)

Play through this trap on my Lichess study page

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Outflanking in Chess Endgames

Outflanking is the method of avoiding opposition by by-passing the enemy King to enter the opponent's side of the board.

White to Play and Win

1. Ke6 Kc8

2. Kd6 Kb7

3. Kd7! Kb8

4. Kc6 Ka7

5. Kc7! Ka8

6. Kxb6 (+-)

Watch this position with analysis on my Lichess study

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Long distance outflanking

GM Game (Anand vs Topalov)

HOW TO LEARN CHESS OPENINGS USING 365CHESS.COM

HOW TO LEARN CHESS OPENINGS USING 365CHESS.COM
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1. Go to www.365chess.com
2. Click on the "Opening Explorer" option in the Menu.
3. Click on the moves under "Next Move" to play through the opening moves on the display board.
4. You will get an idea of which is the more popular move by looking at the number of games played under "# of Games". 
5. You will get an idea of which is the stronger move by looking at the percentage under "Winnings percentage".
6. You may get a message that you have to Login to continue. You can Register a free account on 365chess.com to play through the remaining moves.
7. After playing through the moves go through the GM games under "Recent games" and "Top Games by Average ELO", to understand how the masters played after the opening moves. 

8. If you already know the ECO Code, go to "ECO Codes", select the Code in the drop-down list and click on 'Go' button. You will land on the respective Opening Page. On this Page, select the moves under "Possible continuations" to learn the opening.

HOW TO SEARCH FOR GM GAMES ON CHESSGAMES.COM USING ECO CODE

HOW TO SEARCH FOR GM GAMES ON CHESSGAMES.COM USING ECO CODE
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ECO: Encyclopedia of Chess Openings

1. Get the ECO Code of the Opening moves/variation.
2. Go to www.chessgames.com
3. On the home page of this website, come to the "ADVANCED SEARCH" section.
4. Type the ECO Code in the Text Box against the "ECO code is" option.
5. To get better results, you may enter some other options such as "Year is", "Number of moves is" and "Result is". This will help you to get fewer games which are more appropriate to what you are searching for.
6. Click on "Find Chess Games" button. The list of all games matching the search criteria will be displayed.
7. Select any game from the list and play through it to understand how the masters played the Middle Game phase after the Opening moves.

NOTE: Several pages of search results (games list) may be displayed, click on the Page Navigation buttons (this is at the bottom right of the page) to open next/previous/last/first pages in the search results.