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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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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
Chess Player
Journalist
Politician
Writer
Four
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Two
Time
Valuable
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Style, I've got no style.
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It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
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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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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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We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.
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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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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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