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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 still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
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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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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
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I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
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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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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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The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
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Style, I've got no style.
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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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The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
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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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Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
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I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
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