Anatoly Karpov Quotes

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  Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

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  Sports, Art, Board Games

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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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• Blunders rarely travel alone.

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  Blunders

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

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  Funny, Happiness, Dream

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

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  Success, Opponents, Chess

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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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• 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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• Style? I have no style.

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  Style

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• I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

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  Harmony

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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, Faces, Facts

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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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• 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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  Learning, Ordinary, Pace

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

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  Usa, America, Citizens

  "Interview with Anatoly Karpov "Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov"". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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