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

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

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: 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, 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 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 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: Amsterdam IBM, 7th July 1980. The 9th-round encounter between Jan Timman (Netherlands) & World Champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR). The game was drawn in 34 moves. (Photo credits: F.

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