GM Anatoly Karpov

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GM Boris Spassky
 GM Anatoly Karpov

• He is considered as one of the greatest player in history.

• He is a Russian Chess Grandmaster.
• His peak rating is 2780.
• He was World Champion from 1975 to 1984 & 1993 to 1998.

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• He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1970.
• He won Chess Oscar Award 9 times in 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979,
1980, 1981 and 1984.
• In 1985, he lost the World Champion title to Garry Kasparov.
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• He started playing chess at the age of 4.

• He became the Candidate Master at the age of 11.
• He has more than 9000 chess books in his private chess library.
 GM Boris Spassky

• He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1955

• He was World champion from 1969 to 1972
• His Peak rating is 2690

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• He was the 10th World Champion.
• He won Chess Oscar award 2 times in 1968, 1969.

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• His most played openings were Sicilian Defence and Ruy Lopez.
• He won Soviet Chess Championship twice.
• He played World Chess Championship seven times.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Chess_Championships