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* thank you for watching this video * thank you for subcriding our channel Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played five matches against Kasparov for the title from 1984 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993. He held the title until 1999, when he resigned his title in protest against FIDE's new world championship rules. For his decades-long standing among the world's elite, many consider Karpov one of the greatest players in history. Ján Markoš - author of this video... Markoš learned to play chess from his sister at age six. He was trained by Štefan Blaho, Róbert Tibenský and Ľubomír Ftáčnik. In 1997, Markoš became Slovak champion in the under 12 category and subsequently in the U14 and U16.[citation needed] In 2000, he won the Under 16 section of the European Youth Chess Championships. In the same year, he also won for the first time the Slovak Chess Championship in Zvolen. Markoš won the Slovak championship again in 2011 and 2012. He was awarded the title of International Master in 2001. He finished second in the national championships of 2006, behind Tomáš Petrík, and 2007, behind Sergei Movsesian. In 2007, Markoš gained the Grandmaster title. In 2012 he won the 2nd Riga Technical University Open.