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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
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Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
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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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The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
Anatoly Karpov
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 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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Style, I've got no style.
Anatoly Karpov
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.
Anatoly Karpov
The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
Anatoly Karpov
An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!
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To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player one has to be a strong human being as well.
Anatoly Karpov
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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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
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Blunders rarely travel alone.
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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
Anatoly Karpov
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.
Anatoly Karpov
I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
Anatoly Karpov
I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.
Anatoly Karpov
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
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The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
Anatoly Karpov
Style? I have no style.
Anatoly Karpov