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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
Chess Player
Journalist
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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.
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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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Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
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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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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
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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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I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
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It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
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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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We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.
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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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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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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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Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
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'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.
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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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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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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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I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
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