Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Karpov akanga asimbisa nzvimbo yake semutambi akanakisisa wenyika uye shasha yenyika panguva iyo Garry Kasparov akasvika panzvimbo yacho. Mumutambo wavo wokutanga, World Chess Championship 1984
muMoscow, mutambi wokutanga kukunda mitambo mitanhatu aizokunda mutambo wacho. Karpov akavaka hutungamiri hwe4-0 mushure memitambo mipfumbamwe. Mitambo 17 yakatevera yakadhirowewa, ichiisa rekodhi yemitambo yemutambo wenyika, uye zvakatora Karpov kusvika kumutambo 27 kuti awane kukunda kwake kwechishanu. Mumutambo 31, Karpov akanga ane chinzvimbo chokukunda asi akakundikana kutora mukana uye akagutsikana nekurova. Akarasikirwa nomutambo unotevera, pashure pawo mamwe maresero 14 akatevera. Karpov akabata chinzvimbo chakasimba mukukunda muGame 41, asi zvakare akakanganisa uye aifanira kugutsikana nekurova. Pashure pokunge Kasparov akunda mitambo 47 ne48, Mutungamiri weFIDE Florencio Campomanes akagumisa mutambo wacho, achitaura nezvehutano hwevatambi. Karpov anonzi akarasikirwa nemakirogiramu 10 mumutambo wacho. Mutambo wacho wakanga watora mwedzi mishanu isina kumboitika, Karpov achikunda mishanu, Kasparov achikunda mitatu, uye 40 vachikwikwidza.