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Karpov at 70: “My great blunder was I agreed to hold the match with Kasparov in the Soviet Union” | chess24.com
If Karpov and Fischer had played each other and Karpov had won, do you think Karpov would have become a stronger player, and as a result, possibly strong enough to beat Kasparov
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