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If the opponent offers keen play I don't object but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

Anatoly Karpov

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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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