Karpov likes backgammon.
Hans Berliner, world correspondence champion was working on a chess engine around 1970 but as he found chess too hard, he made a backgammon engine that beat the best human backgammon player.
Chess vs Backgammon
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Also, I prefer chess. The element of chance in backgammon is to complicated for me.