Anatoly Karpov Quotes

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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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Pawns, Soil, Foundation

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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

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Sports, Art, Board Games

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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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Strong, Player, Champion

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Blunders rarely travel alone.

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Blunders

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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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Moving, Mean, Thinking

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It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

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Pieces, Chess, Cost

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Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

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Funny, Happiness, Dream

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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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Chess, Opinion, Capablanca

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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

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Harmony

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You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

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Play, Pills, Chess

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I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

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Moving, Irritation, Games

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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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Strong, Games, Quality

"Big Think Interview with Anatoly Karpov". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. May 17, 2010.

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Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.

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Weakness, Opponents, Strength And Weakness

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Style, I've got no style.

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Style, Chess

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I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.

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Mistake, Winning, Opportunity

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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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Winning, Games, Play

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Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

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Chess, Life Is

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I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

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Opportunity, Play, Chess

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The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

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Knights, Facts, Boards

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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

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Player, Champion, Chess

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It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.

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Kings, Moving, Black

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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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Dog, Player, Playing Chess

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I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.

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Chess, Pawns, Results

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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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Hero, People, Different

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The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.

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Success, Character, Winning

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Born: May 23, 1951
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