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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
Chess Player
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Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.
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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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It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
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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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'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.
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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
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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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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
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In Kansas I have a chess school.
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Blunders rarely travel alone.
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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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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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First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
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No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that
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I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
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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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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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I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.
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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
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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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