Anatoly Karpov about Spassky: it was hard to play with his idol
The 12th world chess champion Anatoly Karpov admitted in an interview with the Rossiya TV channel that it was difficult for him to play a match with grandmaster Boris Spassky, since he considered him his idol.


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The 12th world chess champion Anatoly Karpov admitted in an interview with the Rossiya TV channel that it was difficult for him to play a match with grandmaster Boris Spassky, since he considered him his idol.
Karpov did not consider defeat or a draw, he needed to win. “It was especially difficult for me to play the match against Spassky because he was my idol. And I thought he was a chess star. You can imagine meeting your own star. You have to win, not just play. Not just making a draw, but winning. That was especially difficult, Karpov said. On February 27, the 10th world chess champion Boris Spassky died in Moscow at the age of 88. Karpov called the death of the grandmaster a huge loss for the sports world.

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