Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan ya zama zakaran duniya ta hanyar tsoho, Karpov ya tabbatar da cancantarsa ga taken tare da jerin nasarorin gasa daga tsakiyar 70s zuwa farkon 80s. Ya kare taken sa sau biyu a kan tsohon Soviet Viktor Korchnoi, da farko a Baguio, Philippines, a 1978 (6<unk>5 tare da 21 zana) sannan a Merano a
1981 (6<unk>2, tare da zana 10).