What Korchnoi did aged 70 won’t be easily repeated

The article gives the Anand - Karpov wins head to head as 11-5. I'm fairly sure it is 9-5, one of Anand's wins being from the Buenos Aires 1994 Polugaevsky Jubilee Sicilian theme tournament. This site makes the same mistake, considering a couple of rapid games as classical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7B...

https://ruchess.ru/news/all/anatoli...

<What do you think the top five should look like?>

It is difficult to single out five - we have a lot of great champions. But since you ask, I will name Capablanca, Alekhine, Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov. Arranged not by rank, but in chronological order. Perhaps someone will be surprised by the absence of Lasker, who held the chess crown for 27 years. This record has not been broken so far. But because of the First World War, the matches were not played for nine years. And in 1921 he lost to Capablanca, one of the most talented and mysterious chess players in history from a country where chess was not well developed.

The greatest achievements speak for Alekhine including the record for the number of won international competitions - 76. I overcame it - I have 185 victories. This is from the moment I became a master of sports, excluding children's and youth tournaments. In general, I own almost all of the chess records. Kasparov also has many brilliant victories.

<If there had been a match with Robert Fischer in 1975, how would this change chess and your career?>

To begin with, the match would become a unique event in the history of not only chess, but also world sports. It is a pity that it failed. Although we negotiated for a long time, we met three times. The last time was in Washington. 1977 year. They actually shook hands there. We went to the Philippine consulate. Campomanes, FIDE President, found a typist who typed everything that was agreed. We have already taken pens to sign the agreement. But at the last moment, Fischer refused. Negotiations were later resumed through Lothar Schmid, who was a referee at the Fischer-Spassky match and since then has maintained a cordial relationship with Bobby. I was still actively involved in chess, Fischer watched, but I hadn’t played for a long time ... Finally, I suggested - well, let's play your chess, Fischer’s. Also he did not respond.

I don’t want to claim that he was afraid of me. But some kind of insecurity wandered in him. Too many new things awaited in the confrontation with me. When Fischer went to the title of world champion, he defeated opponents much older. Plus, everyone was rooting for him. Over time, the alignment has changed. I am eight years younger and had a lot of support. And Bobby at that moment also spoiled his relations with the press. He did not play a single official game after the match with Spassky. Yes, Fischer could not imagine life without chess, he continued to study. But at home you cannot simulate a tournament environment, you cannot train the nervous system. This is probably why I felt psychologically ill at ease.

I wanted to defeat Bobby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPd...

Karpov's '30 years long' career humble beginnings

http://www.ichessbase.com/ICBGameRa...

Check

https://capitalizemytitle.com/onlin...

http://chess-news.ru/node/27926

<Probably not the most pleasant stage in your biography - the semi-final Candidates match of 1992 with Short. If I'm not mistaken, this is your only defeat in a match in your entire career, apart from Kasparov.>

"By and large, of course, Nigel is not one of the greatest chess players in history. He came close, but nothing more. In some games he is a dangerous opponent, but neither in understanding nor in preparation can he come close to the world champion. And I think if we then, in 1992, had played ten matches, I might have lost one. But the trouble is that I lost the first one we played."

-<What happened?>

Then we got the PCA match and Karpov and Timman played for the FIDE title.

In this scenario FIDE could have pushed both Timman and Karpov not to join the PCA. Considered that the PCA was not born in a day.

Let's face it... Short never took any effort to give the date stamps regarded to his match with Karpov to CG, but he babbled more than an hour about his victory on YouTube in 2018. Speaking of suspicion lol

160 international tournaments won
11 WC matches played
most grandmasters defeated in classical chess time controls 16 years as World Champ [10 undisputed + 6 FIDE] (all time record in modern era)

8.5 years as world number 1 and another 15 years as world number 2.

Also the most techinically impressive chess player to ever live. His "prophlactic" style of play was a joy to watch and bewildering to his opponents. He took everything Petrosian did and took it to another level.

He won less than 20 in the entire 1990s even with blitz and engine assisted tournaments included. It should be around 25 in the 1980s, and less than 20 in the 1970s. From the 2000s and onwards maybe some minor event or two but it should end up below 70 in all: