Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Karpov ya tabbatar da matsayinsa a matsayin mafi kyawun ɗan wasa a duniya kuma zakaran duniya a lokacin da Garry Kasparov ya isa wurin. A wasansu na farko, Gasar Chess ta Duniya ta 1984
a Moscow, dan wasa na farko da ya lashe wasanni shida zai lashe wasan. Karpov ya gina jagora 4 zuwa 0 bayan wasanni tara. Wasannin 17 na gaba sun zana, suna kafa tarihi don wasannin taken duniya, kuma ya ɗauki Karpov har zuwa wasa na 27 don samun nasararsa ta biyar. A wasan 31, Karpov yana da matsayi mai nasara amma ya kasa cin gajiyar sa kuma ya daidaita. Ya rasa wasan na gaba, bayan da wasu 14 suka biyo baya. Karpov ya ci gaba da samun nasara a cikin Wasan 41, amma ya sake yin kuskure kuma dole ne ya daidaita. Bayan Kasparov ya lashe wasanni 47 da 48, Shugaban FIDE Florencio Campomanes ya dakatar da wasan, yana mai cewa lafiyar 'yan wasan. An ce Karpov ya rasa kilo 10 a yayin wasan. Wasan ya ɗauki watanni biyar da ba a taɓa yin irinsa ba, tare da nasara biyar ga Karpov, uku ga Kasparov, da kuma 40.