How to achieve success? How to survive in the world of behind-the-scenes fuss and cunning intrigues? How not to lose yourself while combining for a long time the roles of a great athlete, statesman, world-famous philatelist, president of the Peace Foundation, State Duma deputy and head of a huge number of chess clubs and schools? You will learn about this and more from the exciting autobiography of the twelfth world chess champion. Life in the Soviet Union and in modern Russia, travel around the world and impressions of your favorite cities and countries, entertaining stories about meeting great actors, artists, musicians, athletes and politicians - this is just part of what the great chess player talks about. For the first time, the full story of the rivalry with Korchnoi and Kas Parov and the hard truth about the struggle with Ilyumzhinov for the post of FIDE President is revealed. This book will be appreciated not only by chess fans and lovers of memoirs, but also by connoisseurs of history, adventure, political detective stories and even glossy magazines about the lives of celebrities. After all, Anatoly Karpov had never played such an interesting game before. The publishing layout of the book was saved in PDF A4 format.