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When the 12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov and GM Ron Henley were at the iChess studios last month recording Karpov’s 15-hour Master Method, we couldn’t resist the urge to sit them down for some tea and a chat about everything chess.
Ron W. Henley is a good friend of Anatoly – their relationship goes back to the 1990s when Henley acted as Karpov’s second, analyst and trainer for many of his matches.
Nowadays, Karpov still loves to play chess, but he’s dropped the classical time controls. He says he doesn’t have the stamina to sit at the chessboard for hours at a time anymore.
He’s now 67 years old and has been playing chess since he was four. Karpov saw career success from early on, and that trend still continues – he’s participated in rapid and blitz tournaments this year, including a match against the women’s highest-rated player Hou Yifan, and finished first in each of them. He’s brought his total number of outright international and national tournament victories in his career up to an impressive 185.
In this exclusive interview with iChess.net, Anatoly Karpov talks about Viktor Korchnoi, about Bobby Fischer and the match that never was, about the current chess champion Magnus Carlsen, and Fabiano Caruana’s chances for the title this November.
Those with an interest in world chess are keeping an eye on the upcoming FIDE Presidential elections, a three-horse race between Arkady Dvorkovich, Georgios Makropoulos and Nigel Short. Anatoly Karpov gives his opinions on the upcoming FIDE Presidential elections, where he thinks FIDE went wrong, and what changes they could make in the future.
He also tells us which chess players from history he’d have liked to have met, and gives his top tips for how aspiring club players can get better at chess.
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