Talk:Anatoly Karpov
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About his peak Elo rating: it can't be 2725 - I remember him having a higher grade than that, and Chessbase says he was at 2780 in 1994 [1] (http://www.chesslive.de/scripts/server.dll?getplayerelo?Karpov&Anatoly). I guess that's his peak, though I suppose there's a slim chance he was higher before 1976 (which is when the graph seems to stop), so I won't add it (I'll see if I can check it somewhere). Also, where do the details of his "overall record" (1,118 wins, 287 losses, 1,480 draws) come from? Does this record just include top-level games at normal time controls (as I think it ought to) or does it also include blitz games, off-hand games, simuls and so on? Also, when is it up to? Karpov is sitll playing, so his record is always subject to change. --Camembert
Yeah, I remember him being at 2780 too, I'll use that as the number. I got the win/loss from www.chessgames.com, which is prety accurate for now.--Etaonish 13:23, May 16, 2004 (UTC)
Arguably his 2720 (around the time of the match with Kasparov?) was more meaningful than his later peak, due to ratings inflation. Anyway, Kasparov and Kramnik are the only ones to have passed the 2800 mark.
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Plagarism
This page, along with many others, is being plagiarized at http://www.greatpersonalities.com/ (Karpov in particular at http://www.greatpersonalities.com/viewtopic-130.html ) Posting on Wikipedia:Copies of Wikipedia content (low degree of compliance) , haven't sent an email. --Etaonish 22:52, Sep 8, 2004 (UTC)
A further plagarism here: http://www.answers.com/topic/anatoly-karpov What does Wikipedia do when this is reported?
--Knucmo2 19:04, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- That particular copy is not plagiarised: it properly credits the Wikipedia, states the content is licensed under the GFDL, and provides a link back to this article (see the sentence at the bottom: "This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Anatoly Karpov"). In cases where Wikipedia content is incorrectly reused, the process laid out at Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks might be followed, but that isn't necessary here. --Camembert
- I think the content on http://www.greatpersonalities.com/viewtopic-130.html is incorrectly reused, they don't mention anything about GFDL. Andreas Kaufmann 13:33, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hacking?
I'm pretty sure that the statistics appearing about Karpov's penis size aren't relevant. Has somebody hacked this page?
Yeah, vandalism is pretty common. It gets reverted, though. --Etaonish 13:03, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
Karpov, when not playing chess
I'm a little bit disappointed that next to nothing is said about Karpov, when not playing chess. -- Pjacobi 15:47, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've tried and I am unable to find much on his life regarding his non-chess activities. I'll attempt to correct this. --Etaonish 18:30, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
After some more searches - Karpov does have biographies and autobiographies out. If anyone could possibly get a hold of them, could you please add to this page? Thanks. --Etaonish 18:40, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
- Perhaps some speaker of Russian has a lot more sources available, but without promising anything, I'll put it on my to-do. See for example: http://www.russiatoday.ru/en/top100/most_fam/3177.html -- Pjacobi 18:51, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Canadian?!
EDGE - do you have any sources for that? I find it highly unlikely. --Etaonish 18:54, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
Hair
I seem to remember something about Karpov not washing his hair when he was on a winning streak or something. Was this just a myth? Mintguy (T) 22:33, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Karpov never washed his hair. It is just a myth that he washed it. He liked the greasy look and smell of it in the morning. It also led to his opponents getting unconscious in time trouble, and is believed to be the main reason Karpov won so many games and lost so few. In fact it smelled so bad, Kasparov said "I would never touch the hair of that man. It reminds me of something my cat threw up." Thats why is Kasparov played so many quick draws in their 1984 match: he couldn't stand Karpov's hair. GM Mikhail Botvinnik was quoted as saying "Nobody can understand the hair of Karpov." Fred chessplayer 14:13, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Name
The article uses both Anatoly and Anatoli - are both right? If so, I think it should a) comment on this and b) pick one and use it for internal consistency. -- S
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Would appreciate...
...if someone added the Topalov game mentioned into the article, perhaps using the format of Hastings 1895 chess tournament. [2] (http://www.angelfire.com/games3/AJs01Downloads/html_stuff/karp-topa_lin94.html) provides a lot of good material, as well as the board set-up. Even better would be if the Tatai game could be added as well [3] (http://www.angelfire.com/games3/AJs01Downloads/html_stuff/tat-kar_lpal77.html)
Normally I'd do this but this is laborious and I'm tired.--Etaonish 17:48, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
Request for references
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