Douglas Griffin on X: World Champion Anatoly Karpov, Amsterdam IBM 1981. (Source: #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: World Champion Anatoly Karpov, in play v. Ulf Andersson, Tilburg 1977. Balashov in the background. (Source: #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: World Champion Anatoly Karpov giving a simultaneous display in the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1976. @sovietvisuals #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Anatoly Karpov, pictured in 1970. (Photo: R. Kucherov.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffinστο X: World Champion Anatoly Karpov, pictured in play at the 50th USSR Championship, Moscow 1983. (Photo: V. Un Da-sin, TASS.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Two World Champions - Max Euwe and Anatoly Karpov, at the final Amsterdam IBM tournament, 20th May 1981. (Photo source: #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Schiphol, 21st September 1977. The Soviet participants in the Tilburg Interpolis tournament - grandmaster Yuri Balashov, ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov & World Champion Anatoly Karpov - arrive in

Douglas Griffin on X: Two photos from the epic 1985 World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov, which took place during September-November in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in the Soviet

X 上的Douglas Griffin：「Anatoly Karpov, winner of the 1969 World Junior Championship in Stockholm, pictured on his return to the USSR. (Photo: Novosti Press.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Amsterdam, 23rd May 1981. In the 7th round of the final IBM tournament, which featured the winners of the previous events, Tony Miles faces Jan Timman; Anatoly Karpov

Douglas Griffin on X: Amsterdam, 11th June 1987. Ex-World Champion Anatoly Karpov is pictured in play v. his old rival Viktor Korchnoi in the 4th round of the Euwe Memorial tournament. (Photo

Douglas Griffin on X: 40 years ago - World Champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR), pictured at the IBM International in Amsterdam, May 1981. (📷H. van Dijk (#1); M. Antonisse (#2, 3, 4) /