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Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

Vladimir Kramnik

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Vladimir Kramnik
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: June 25
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Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik
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I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.
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With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
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My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
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So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!
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Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.
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When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.
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In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.
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It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position
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No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.
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In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
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In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.
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Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure
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I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.
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For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
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Computers have changed the world of chess.
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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
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Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
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The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
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I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.
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