Nina Grigorievna Karpova

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Simon Rogers
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Nina Grigorievna Karpova

Post by Simon Rogers » Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:37 pm

Nina Grigorievna Karpova, the mother of 12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov, sadly died on 14th February 2021, at the age of 101.
Nina was a housewife and Anatoly's father was a worker, later a plant engineer. Anatoly(born 23rd May 1951) was the second child in the family, his sister being five years older.
RIP
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Sorry for posting this late as I only picked it up a few days ago.

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Christopher Kreuzer
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Re: Nina Grigorievna Karpova

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Sat Feb 26, 2022 12:46 pm

Simon Rogers wrote:
Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:37 pm
Nina Grigorievna Karpova, the mother of 12th World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov, sadly died on 14th February 2021, at the age of 101.
Nina was a housewife and Anatoly's father was a worker, later a plant engineer. Anatoly(born 23rd May 1951) was the second child in the family, his sister being five years older.
RIP
Tribute on this website:
https://severbrand.ru
Under Hobbies and handicrafts
Social and political activists and business.
Sorry for posting this late as I only picked it up a few days ago.
In case anyone (like me) thought this was 2022, this was a year ago in February 2021.

Thanks for posting it Simon. From this news, I found this other tribute as well (was unable to find the one you mentioned, as my Russian is non-existent and I was unable to navigate the website you linked to).

https://sahmatlista.wordpress.com/2021/ ... a-karpova/

FIDE condolences here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRi3lEBwVS/