Editing Anatoly Karpov (section)

==Early life==
Karpov was born into a [[Russians|Russian]] family on May 23, 1951,<ref>''How Karpov Wins'', p. xiii</ref><ref>''Deep Blue: An Artificial Intelligence Milestone''bats, p. 44</ref> in [[Zlatoust]], in the [[Urals]] region of the former Soviet Union, and learned to play chess at the age of four.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Anatoly Karpov|last=Keene|first=Raymond|magazine=[[Chess Life & Review]]|date=October 1978|volume=XXIII|number=10|page=539}}</ref> His early rise in chess was swift, as he became a candidate master by age 11. At 12, he was accepted into [[Mikhail Botvinnik]]'s prestigious chess school, though Botvinnik made the following remark about the young Karpov: "The boy does not have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/books/getting-it-off-his-chess.html|title=Getting It Off His Chess|last=Arrabal|first=Fernando|date= March 1, 1992|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 15, 2021}}</ref>

Karpov acknowledged that his understanding of chess theory was very confused at that time, and later wrote that the homework Botvinnik assigned greatly helped him, since it required that he consult chess books and work diligently.<ref name="KarpovOnKarpov">{{cite book | title=Karpov on Karpov: A Memoirs of a Chess World Champion | author=Karpov, A. | publisher=Atheneum | year=1992 | isbn=0-689-12060-5}}</ref> Karpov improved so quickly under Botvinnik's tutelage that he became the youngest Soviet master in history at the age of fifteen in 1966; this tied the record established by [[Boris Spassky]] in 1952.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Editorial Staff |date=April 15, 2022 |title=Boris Spassky - The Russian Chess Grandmaster Legend - Chess Player Profile |url=https://www.chessjournal.com/boris-spassky/ |access-date=August 4, 2022 |website=The Chess Journal |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ANATOLY KARPOV |url=https://ruchess.ru:443/en/persons_of_day/anatoly_karpov/ |access-date=August 4, 2022 |website=Федерация шахмат России |language=en}}</ref>