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Anatoly Karpov (Born 23 May 1951)

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DRAWN GAMES ARE EXCLUDED FROM "BLUNDERS" AND "AVG ERROR" DATA COLUMNS
YEAR AGE MOVES ANALYZED WHITE PTS PERCENT BLACK PTS PERCENT TOTAL PTS PERCENT BLUNDERS per 1000 MOVES AVG ERROR per WHITE MOVE AVG ERROR per BLACK MOVE AVG ERROR per MOVE COMPLEXITY – ALL GAMES COMPLEXITY – WINNING GAMES
1967 16 370 77.78 62.50 70.59 4.22 10.56 10.42 10.50 22.38 24.55
1968 17 771 85.29 86.67 85.94 12.07 11.97 12.14 12.05 25.23 29.22
1969 18 1134 68.75 76.19 72.22 2.69 10.75 5.97 8.78 17.60 22.27
1970 19 1190 74.07 52.17 64.00 4.80 7.89 8.13 7.98 15.59 18.74
1971 20 1890 80.49 59.76 70.12 3.48 10.60 8.22 9.85 15.83 20.02
1972 21 1004 80.95 63.16 72.50 10.54 9.85 8.64 9.37 17.06 21.31
1973 22 1922 73.68 68.06 70.95 4.00 8.69 9.95 9.29 18.55 24.35
1974 23 1520 75.00 53.70 64.91 3.21 8.33 9.73 8.67 17.32 25.66
1975 24 1191 70.37 57.69 64.15 6.26 9.64 7.76 9.14 16.90 28.69
1976 25 1409 75.00 70.00 72.41 4.46 8.71 7.64 8.21 18.82 24.57
1977 26 1622 82.35 70.69 76.98 2.73 9.20 8.78 9.07 16.46 19.54
1978 27 1227 64.58 47.83 56.38 3.91 8.70 7.47 8.10 16.27 22.36
1979 28 999 77.27 60.00 69.05 3.33 10.43 9.79 10.24 19.11 23.73
1980 29 1682 70.51 60.00 65.54 7.06 8.92 8.64 8.83 14.62 19.86
1981 30 1399 72.41 58.93 65.79 2.91 8.87 7.61 8.40 18.09 22.32
1982 31 1394 75.00 51.92 64.29 4.04 9.75 9.92 9.80 16.81 24.22
1983 32 1332 71.67 60.00 65.83 1.50 10.42 6.68 9.48 16.95 25.51
1984 33 1245 69.36 51.61 60.48 2.04 8.03 10.27 8.67 15.95 26.03
1985 34 1285 53.70 51.92 52.83 8.35 7.30 10.77 9.05 13.42 13.82
1986 35 1785 66.67 51.32 58.45 2.51 8.85 9.33 9.12 13.39 21.39
1987 36 1613 67.74 55.00 61.48 4.51 9.83 8.04 9.14 13.72 17.55
1988 37 2653 80.19 56.00 68.45 3.97 7.19 10.18 8.10 18.06 23.99
1989 38 1442 73.33 56.90 65.25 5.10 6.46 8.51 7.03 16.42 20.27
1990 39 1242 70.00 45.83 58.16 0.00 7.26 11.07 9.01 14.71 24.20
1991 40 2105 68.75 48.75 58.75 5.05 8.59 9.66 8.91 15.71 22.12
1992 41 1754 74.24 57.58 65.91 3.33 8.68 10.48 9.48 17.65 22.83
1993 42 2310 75.56 59.30 67.61 4.14 10.51 9.75 10.27 18.21 24.20
1994 43 1817 79.69 63.24 71.21 6.24 8.29 8.47 8.37 18.61 23.87
1995 44 1461 68.00 67.86 67.93 4.39 8.41 9.19 8.86 16.93 22.52
1996 45 1790 66.67 47.14 57.04 8.81 9.72 11.03 10.43 16.25 27.14
1997 46 674 69.23 43.33 55.36 13.12 9.26 10.21 9.77 16.18 18.72
1998 47 676 57.69 40.00 48.21 10.42 10.54 11.60 11.42 14.03 22.58
1999 48 820 56.67 46.67 51.67 6.49 7.78 12.57 10.64 13.09 22.42