Find the Right Plan with Anatoly Karpov by Anatoly Karpov and Anatoly Matsukevich helps club-level players transition to strategic planning by utilizing seven core positional evaluation principles. The manual emphasizes the "Law of Domination" and prophylactic thinking, offering 72 annotated examples to illustrate methods for creating objective, long-term plans. A detailed review of this, and related works, can be found at Review: Find the Right Plan with Anatoly Karpov - Chess.com 9 Mar 2020 —
Karpov’s endgame prowess is legendary. He was capable of converting microscopic edges—an outside passed pawn, better king activity, or a superior pawn structure—into full points with an almost mathematical exactness. Many of his wins are study-like conversions where superior understanding of opposition, pawn races, and fortresses carried the day. Anatoly Karpov - Find The Right Plan.pdf
Karpov–Kasparov (Linares 1994): A later-era fight where Karpov demonstrates that his positional understanding remained formidable even against Kasparov’s dynamic play. He obtains a favorable structural imbalance then presses for the win. Find the Right Plan with Anatoly Karpov by