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Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

Anatoly Karpov

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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
Chess Player
Journalist
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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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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 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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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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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 am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
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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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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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Style? I have no style.
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It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.
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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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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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