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

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: The 12th World #Chess Champion, Anatoly Karpov, pictured in 1978, the year of his first, successful, title defence. (Photo credit: unknown.) / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Amsterdam, 5th July 1980. World Champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR) faces John van der Wiel (Netherlands) in the 8th round of the IBM tournament. Wolfgang Unzicker & Genna Sosonko

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

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: Moscow, 1985. World Champion Anatoly Karpov arrives at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall during his decisive title match v. Garry Kasparov. By the car is Viktor Baturinsky, who was

Douglas Griffin on X: The 1981 World Championship match between champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR) & challenger Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland), Merano, October-November 1981. (📷J. Cooke, V. Rastelli / Corbis.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: The 1981 World Championship match between champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR) & challenger Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland), Merano, October-November 1981. (📷J. Cooke, V. Rastelli / Corbis.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: The 1981 World Championship match between champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR) & challenger Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland), Merano, October-November 1981. (📷J. Cooke, V. Rastelli / Corbis.) #chess / X

X 上的Douglas Griffin：“40 years ago, the World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov & Viktor Korchnoi was under way. One of my earliest #chess memories is reading the score of the 1st

Douglas Griffin on X: Anatoly Karpov & Mikhail Tal, pictured in play during the 39th USSR Championship, Leningrad, September-October 1971. (Photo: N. Naumenkov / TASS.) #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