The Boa Constrictor. Positional genius who slowly suffocated opponents. World Champion 1975–1985.
Anatoly Karpov learned chess at age 4 and became a grandmaster at 19. He was awarded the World Championship in 1975 when Bobby Fischer refused to defend his title, then proved his legitimacy by defending it five times, three brutal matches against Kasparov alone. His style was unlike any before him: he did not attack so much as squeeze, gradually restricting the opponent's pieces until they had no good moves left. Garry Kasparov, who fought him across five matches spanning a decade, called him 'the most difficult opponent I ever faced.'
Notable: Won the 1994 Linares tournament with a record +11 score. Held the world #1 ranking for most of 1975–1990.
| Era | Modern |
| Years | 1951– |
| Peak rating | 2780 |
| Born | Zlatoust, USSR, 1951 |
| Title | 12th World Champion (1975–1985) |
| Style | Prophylaxis, positional squeeze, endgame mastery |
Karpov, reconstructed from the player's own games and measured against a modern engine, as a UCI engine for your machine: it runs locally and offline, loads into CZUBATRONIC 2400 as an external engine, and into any compatible UCI chess interface. Strong chess from the engine; the choices, recognisably Karpov's.
| File | ChessGate_Karpov.exe · 48 MB |
| Runs in | CZUBATRONIC 2400 (as an external engine) and any UCI chess interface |
| Requirements | Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit; any UCI chess interface; CZUBATRONIC 2400 lists it as an external engine |
| Works offline | Yes. No account, no server. |
| Packs | Strategic Masters, World Champions |
| Collection | Complete Personality Collection |
| In the browser | A lighter version of Karpov plays on ChessGate. |
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