karpov in 1996
in 1992, karpov lost candidates match against nigel short. in 1993, karpov reacquired fide world champion title when kasparov , short split fide. karpov defeated timman – loser of candidates final against short.
the next major meeting of kasparov , karpov 1994 linares chess tournament. field, in eventual finishing order, karpov, kasparov, shirov, bareev, kramnik, lautier, anand, kamsky, topalov, ivanchuk, gelfand, illescas, judit polgár, , beliavsky; average elo rating of 2685, highest ever @ time, making first category xviii tournament ever held. impressed strength of tournament, kasparov had said several days before tournament winner rightly called world champion of tournaments. perhaps spurred on comment, karpov played best tournament of life. undefeated , earned 11 points out of 13 possible (the best world-class tournament winning percentage since alekhine won san remo in 1930), finishing 2½ points ahead of second-place kasparov , shirov. many of wins spectacular (in particular, win on topalov considered possibly finest of career). performance against best players in world put elo rating tournament performance @ 2985, highest performance rating of player in history until 2009, when magnus carlsen won category xxi pearl spring chess tournament performance of 3002. however, chess statistician jeff sonas considered karpov s linares performance best tournament result in history.
karpov defended fide title against gata kamsky (+6−3=9) in 1996. however, in 1998, fide largely scrapped old system of candidates matches, instead having large knockout event in large number of players contested short matches against each other on few weeks. in first of these events, fide world chess championship 1998, champion karpov seeded straight final, defeating viswanathan anand (+2−2=2, rapid tiebreak 2–0). in subsequent cycle, format changed, champion having qualify. karpov refused defend title, , ceased fide world champion after fide world chess championship 1999.
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