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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• 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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• Blunders rarely travel alone.

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  Blunders

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

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  Play, Pills, Chess

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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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• Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.

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  Queens, Memorable, Sacrifice

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• Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

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  Depth, Chess, Well Known

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

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  Harmony

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

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  Pieces, Chess, Cost

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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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• 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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• 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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• No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that

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  Sacrifice, Games, Two

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.

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  Book, Benefits, 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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• 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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• After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.

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  Chess, World, Want

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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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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