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Anatoly Karpov

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Anatoly Karpov
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 23
Chess Player
Journalist
Politician
Writer
Alone
Blunders
Rarely
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Style, I've got no style.
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I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
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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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Style? I have no style.
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First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
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In Kansas I have a chess school.
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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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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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We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.
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The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
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'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.
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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
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Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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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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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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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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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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Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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