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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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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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Blunders rarely travel alone.
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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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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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Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
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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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Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
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Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot.
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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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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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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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Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
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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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We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.
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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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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
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Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
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I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
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