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Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
Anatoly Karpov
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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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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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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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Style, I've got no style.
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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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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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Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
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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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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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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
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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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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.
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First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
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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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The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
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Style? I have no style.
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