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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.

Anatoly Karpov

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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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