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We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

Anatoly Karpov

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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
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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 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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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
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Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
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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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Style, I've got no style.
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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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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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
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It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
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Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
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I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
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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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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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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
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Chess is my life, but my life is not 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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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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