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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
Anatoly Karpov
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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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In Kansas I have a chess school.
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But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!
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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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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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Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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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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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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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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I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
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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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The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
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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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