Anatoly Karpov - Find The Right Plan.pdf Extra Quality Review

Karpov didn’t always push passed pawns to queen. Sometimes, he pushed them just to make the opponent keep a rook on the back rank. The PDF shows games where Karpov promotes a pawn to a knight (underpromotion) purely to create a fork that wins the opponent’s last active defender.

Karpov played 1. e4 , but he was not a 1. e4 attacker. He would willingly go into endgames on move 15. He looked for "weak color complexes." For example, if the opponent’s pawns are on dark squares, Karpov would place his bishop on a light square and never let it leave. Anatoly Karpov - Find The Right Plan.pdf