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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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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
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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.
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My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.
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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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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
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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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Blunders rarely travel alone.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
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Style? I have no style.
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I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.
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But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!
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Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
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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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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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