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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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Vladimir Kramnik
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: June 25
Chess Player
Writer
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik
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Calm
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I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.
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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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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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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
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On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.
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Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.
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I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
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It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position
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Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand has belonged to the absolute top players in the world for fifteen years. This difference cannot be explained purely in chess terms, there must have been some psychology.
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Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure
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Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.
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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
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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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I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.
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The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.
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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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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 this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
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Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match.
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Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.
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