Anatoli Karpov

Anatoli Karpov

74 (1951-05-23)
Zlatoust, USSR [now Russia]

Anatoli Karpov is a top-ranked Russian chess player, world champion 1975-85.

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Red Army 2014 (7.3)

A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and world-dominating team through the eyes of the team's Captain Slava Fetisov, following his shift from hockey star and celebrated national hero to political enemy.
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Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine 2003 (6.4)

Garry Kasparov is possibly the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997, he played a match against the greatest chess computer: IBM's Deep Blue. He lost. This film depicts the drama that happened away from the chess board from Kasparov's perspective. It explores the psychological aspects of the game and the paranoia surrounding IBM's ultimate chess machine.
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Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin 2018 (8.7)

The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.