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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

Anatoly Karpov

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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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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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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
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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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No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
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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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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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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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I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
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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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First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
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After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
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I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
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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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Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot.
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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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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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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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Style, I've got no style.
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