There's an interesting piece about the potential Fischer-Karpov match where Kasparov notes: "This includes testimony by Karpov himself, who said Fischer was the

There's an interesting piece about the potential Fischer-Karpov match where Kasparov notes: "This includes testimony by Karpov himself, who said Fischer was the favorite and later put his own chances of victory at 40 percent." This is the same Karpov that a few matches earlier ceded that Spassky would win that current candidates cycle, and then Karpov goes on to beat Spassky quite comfortably in the semi-final match. I think this speaks for Karpov's public-facing modesty and pragmatism, rather than an objective examination of playing strengths. But still, a Fischer-Karpov match could have been absolutely epic, perhaps potentially surpassing the previous Spassky-Fischer match.