Anatoly Karpov Quotes
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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
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The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
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No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that
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I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
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I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
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It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.
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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
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Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
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The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.
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By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
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Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.
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Blunders rarely travel alone.
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The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
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First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
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This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
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Style? I have no style.
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It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
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Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
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Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov
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Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
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In Kansas I have a chess school.
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'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.
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Style, I've got no style.
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We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.
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The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
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