Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
Chess Player
Journalist
Politician
Writer
Study
Examine
Way
Practice
Moves
Thinking
Games
Separate
Moving
Chess
Means
Players
Valuable
Whole
Player
Mean
Vision
Swallow
Great
More quotes by Anatoly Karpov
Style, I've got no style.
Anatoly Karpov
I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
Anatoly Karpov
Blunders rarely travel alone.
Anatoly Karpov
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
Anatoly Karpov
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
Anatoly Karpov
Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
Anatoly Karpov
This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
Anatoly Karpov
I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
Anatoly Karpov
No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that
Anatoly Karpov
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
Anatoly Karpov
Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
Anatoly Karpov
The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
Anatoly Karpov
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.
Anatoly Karpov
The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
Anatoly Karpov
You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
Anatoly Karpov
In Kansas I have a chess school.
Anatoly Karpov
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
Anatoly Karpov
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
Anatoly Karpov
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
Anatoly Karpov
To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player one has to be a strong human being as well.
Anatoly Karpov
