Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun karpov
1 sense of karpov
Sense 1
Karpov, Anatoli Karpov, Anatoli Yevgenevich Karpov -- (Russian chess master who was world champion from 1975 until 1985 when he was defeated by Gary Kasparov (born in 1951))
INSTANCE OF=> chess master -- (a chess player of great skill)