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Anatoly Karpov
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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
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After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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Style, I've got no style.
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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
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First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
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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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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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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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To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player one has to be a strong human being as well.
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In Kansas I have a chess school.
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It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
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Blunders rarely travel alone.
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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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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
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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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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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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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I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
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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.
Anatoly Karpov
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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