Here are the quarterfinal match result between former World Champion Karpov and the young superstar Fabiano Caruana at Cap d’Agde:
Qualifiés pour la 1/2 de finale
| Anatoly Karpov | (2651) |
1/4 de finale Mercredi 29 à partir de 14h30
| Fabiano Caruana | (2640) | – | Anatoly Karpov | (2651) | : | 0-1 |
| Anatoly Karpov | (2651) | – | Fabiano Caruana | (2640) | : | 0-1 |
Départage en 3’+2″ :
Anatoly Karpov (2651) – Fabiano Caruana (2640) : ½-½ Fabiano Caruana (2640) – Anatoly Karpov (2651) : ½-½
Anatoly Karpov (2651) – Fabiano Caruana (2640) : ½-½ Fabiano Caruana (2640) – Anatoly Karpov (2651) : 0-1
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Where can I replay these games?
Karpov will now remind that he defended his FIDE world title against Anand 10 years ago in 1998 and has not lost a title match since. Anand-Karpov III should happen, so that Karpov has a chance of making a hat-trick and retain his title. (This is just a joke- but seriously Karpov lost his FIDE title due to the change to the silly FIDE KO format)
Chucky just defeated Radjabov. So I guess experience wins once again.
Karpov won against Anand in the first place, because of FIDE.
who else would have put a very tired Anand (after a exhaustive challenger-qualification process, he was forced to play against Karpov inside 2 days) against a completely rested Karpov? it was a farce!
That’s true. But it was a farce that the FIDE KO was replacing the old candidates system. Karpov benefitted that year but lost out the next when the champion had to lose all his priveleges in the KO (not to mention he was promised 2 years). All in all it would have been better even for Karpov if the FIDE KO wasn’t used and Anand was rested in their match even if Karpov lost- look at Smyslov and Korchnoi and the like Karpov could have kept playing candidate matches that is a loss for us all.
This is a great achievement for Karpov over the upcoming youngster! As for the rest of the comments, Anand is the undisputed World Champion and I look forward to the next match vs winner of Topalov vs Kamsky. If you really look at it the mess began when Karpov vs Fischer never took place in 1975. Karpov tried hard to win every tournament after that but that dark cloud never went away and Kasparov felt it too. Let us hope the best players always play each other for the World Chess Championship and we never have a situation such as this occur again.
I don’t think you have to go back to Fisher – it was when Kasparov and (a easybeat challenger) Short played in defiance of FIDE rules. Kasparov was of course one of the all time greats but it was this and his pursuit of money that made the break meaningful. FIDE continued to stage world champs but without Kasparov it was always somewhat artificial but he was the one that broke he could get away with it because of his dominance of the game. I haven’t followed all the ins and outs but I recall Shirov got a bit of short change too at one point. With Anand we have someone who all agree is champion – both in the sense of being first among equals as a player and having completed a recognised series of games for the title.
Karpov is really an amazing guy.
He is definitely the most successful tournament chess player ever and he is also playing above 2650 ELO since 40 years.
Respect.