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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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Blunders rarely travel alone.
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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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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 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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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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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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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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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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Style, I've got no style.
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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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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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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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It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
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I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
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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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First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
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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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