World Chess Champion Reveals Why Karpov Lost To Kasparov in 1985

World Chess Champion Reveals Why Karpov Lost To Kasparov in 1985 Vladimir Kramnik analyses game 24 of the match karpov vs. kasparov in 1985. The 1985 World Chess Championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov is one of the most famous and controversial in the history of chess. Anatoly Karpov needed to win the last game (game 24 that Kramnik analyses in this video) to retain his world title. A draw would allow Kasparov to become the new world champion. Vladimir Kramnik explains in deep details how Karpov and Kasparov think in this game and explains the mistakes made by Karpov that led to his defeat and the loss of the world championship chess title. Vladimir Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster who was born on June 25, 1975. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players of all time, and was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006. Kramnik became a grandmaster at the age of 16, and in 1993 he qualified for the Candidates Tournament, the event that determines the challenger for the World Chess Championship. In 2000, he defeated Garry Kasparov in the Classical World Chess Championship, a title he held for six years before losing it to Viswanathan Anand.