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- NAME: Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov
- OCCUPATION: Chess Player
- BIRTH DATE: May 23, 1951 (Age: 61)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Zlatoust, Russia
- ZODIAC SIGN: Gemini
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Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov was a Russian chess grandmaster and world champion from 1975-1985.
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Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov was born on May 23, 1951 in Zlatoust, Russia. He learned to play chess at the age of four and was rated a first-category player by the time he was nine. In 1969, he won the world junior championship at Stockholm, and a year later, at age 19, became the world's youngest grandmaster. Karpov became world champion 1975 when Bobby Fischer refused to play a match with him.
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