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Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Anatoly Karpov

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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
Chess Player
Journalist
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Chess
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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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Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
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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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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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Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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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 like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
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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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First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
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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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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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'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.
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I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.
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I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
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Style? I have no style.
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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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Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.
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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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