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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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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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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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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
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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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Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
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Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
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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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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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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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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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'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.
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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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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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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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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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Blunders rarely travel alone.
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First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
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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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