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Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

Anatoly Karpov

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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
Chess Player
Journalist
Politician
Writer
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Happiness
Funny
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Incomplete
Always
Boundless
Remain
Dreams
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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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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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No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
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Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
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We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.
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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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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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Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
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Style? I have no style.
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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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Blunders rarely travel alone.
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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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First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
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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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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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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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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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