Three-time world chess champion Anatoly Karpov (centre) at the World Chess Olympiad in Lucerne01.11.1982#57023
Three-time world chess champion Anatoly Karpov (right) and International Grand Master Garry Kasparov (left) overlooking chess game06.08.1982#36689
Delegate of the 19th VLKSM (Young Communists Organization) congress, World chess champion Anatoly Karpov (center) giving autographs.16.05.1982#51980
Awarding USSR high state prizes for special merits in the sphere of labor, science, and culture in the Kremlin. Sitting, from the left: People's Artist of the USSR Tatyana Doronina, First Deputy Chair of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet Vasily Kuznetsov, World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov and People's Artist of the RSFSR, composer Yevgeny Zharkovsky.20.12.1981#6701878
Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov at a press conference for Soviet and foreign journalists in the press center of the USSR Foreign Ministry.10.12.1981#8517221
The 1981 World Chess Championship between Anatoly Karpov, left, and Swiss chess player Viktor Korchnoi held in Italy on October 1 - November 18, 1981. Viktor Korchnoi (center) lost and is leaving Merano.18.11.1981#6702614
The 1981 World Chess Championship between Anatoly Karpov and Swiss chess player Viktor Korchnoi held in Italy on October 1 - November 18, 1981. The match concluded with Anatoly Karpov winning 6:2.18.11.1981#6702612
The 1981 World Chess Championship between Anatoly Karpov and Swiss chess player Viktor Korchnoi held in Italy on October 1 - November 18, 1981. People living in Merano came to see off world champion Anatoly Karpov, who won 6:2.18.11.1981#6701883
The World Chess Championship match takes place from October 1 to November 18, 1981 in the Italian city of Merano. Anatoly Karpov, Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.18.11.1981#8517220
The World Chess Championship match takes place from October 1 to November 18, 1981 in the Italian city of Merano. Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov with his wife Irina during a walk.18.11.1981#8517219
The World Chess Championship match takes place from October 1 to November 18, 1981 in the Italian city of Merano. Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov.18.11.1981#8517218
The World Chess Championship match takes place from October 1 to November 18, 1981 in the Italian city of Merano. Center: Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov with his wife Irina during a reception marking the end of the tournament.18.11.1981#8517217
The World Chess Championship match takes place from October 1 to November 18, 1981 in the Italian city of Merano. Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov with his wife Irina during a walk.18.11.1981#8517216
Anatoly Karpov, Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, before the start of a march of the world chess championship, which takes place from October 1 to November 18, 1981 in the Italian city of Merano.18.11.1981#8517215
Three-time world chess champion Anatoly Karpov gives autographs to border guards at Sheremetyevo airport.16.11.1981#58023
World Chess Championship played between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi of Switzerland in Italy, October 1 - November 18, 1981. Soviet chess player, world champion Anatoly Karpov on a walk in the Alps.01.11.1981#6702615
The 1981 World Chess Championship between Anatoly Karpov, left, and Swiss chess player Viktor Korchnoi held in Italy on October 1 - November 18, 1981.01.10.1981#6702613
World chess champion Anatoly Karpov (right) and Soviet space pilot and chairman of the USSR Chess Federation Vitaly Sevastyanov (left) playing billiards.01.10.1981#56201
Soviet chess player Anatoly Karpov, three-time world champion, is seen with his mom Nina.15.07.1981#6697747
World chess champion Anatoly Karpov thinks over next move during simultaneous chess exhibition with young players.01.06.1981#58007
World chess champion Anatoly Karpov conducts simultaneous chess exhibition with young players.01.06.1981#58006
Soviet chess player, two-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov during a match at the International Grandmaster Chess Tournament in Moscow.04.04.1981#8516739
Sportsmen from Greece at the Moscow Maurice Torez State Institute of Foreign Languages.01.07.1979#555790
World chess champion Anatoly Karpov playing a demonstration game during sports festivities dedicated to the 28th congress of the Young Communist Party.24.04.1978#49341
Soviet physicist and chemist Igor Petryanov-Sokolov, professor of the Karpov Research Institute of Physical Chemistry05.04.1976#5519890
Soviet physicist and chemist Igor Petryanov-Sokolov, professor of the Karpov Research Institute of Physical Chemistry at his desk.05.04.1976#5519889
World chess champion Anatoly Parpov and Olympic and world ice hockey champions Vladimir Petrov, center, and Alexander Maltsev, left.30.04.1975#5620702
FIDE president Max Euwe (left) congratulating world chess champion Anatoly Karpov at the Column Hall of the House of Soviets.24.04.1975#37142
Chess players Anatoly Karpov (center), Semyon Furman (left), Mikhail Tal (2nd left), Tigran Petrosyan (2nd right) and Yefim Geller.28.03.1975#36732
Soviet grand masters Boris Spassky (right) and Anatoly Karpov during the world chess championship semifinals.01.12.1974#37221
