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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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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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Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
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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 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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No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that
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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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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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In Kansas I have a chess school.
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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 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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Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
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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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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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No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
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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 still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.
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Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
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