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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.

Vladimir Kramnik

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Vladimir Kramnik
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: June 25
Chess Player
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Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik
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Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.
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Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.
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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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Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.
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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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Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.
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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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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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At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.
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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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When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.
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I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.
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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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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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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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Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure
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An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.
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But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.
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