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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

Anatoly Karpov

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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
Chess Player
Journalist
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World
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Champion
Avoid
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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 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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Style? I have no style.
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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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No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
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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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I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
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