Anatoly Karpov Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

  Anatoly Karpov

  Pawns, Soil, Foundation
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  Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Sports, Art, Board Games

• 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.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Player, Champion, Chess

• I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Play, Chess, Steps

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

• Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Dog, Player, Playing Chess

• The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Chess, Opinion, Capablanca

• Style, I've got no style.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Style, Chess

• 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!

  Anatoly Karpov

  Chess, Faces, Facts

• Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov

  Anatoly Karpov

  Black, World, Chess

• 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.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Moving, Irritation, Games

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Knights, Facts, Boards

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Pieces, Chess, Cost

• The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Learning, Ordinary, Pace

• 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.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Success, Character, Winning

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Mistake, Winning, Opportunity

• 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!

  Anatoly Karpov

  Success, Opponents, Chess

• 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.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Hero, People, Different

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Opportunity, Play, Chess

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Play, Pills, Chess

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Chess, Pawns, Results

• 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.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Kings, Moving, Black

• 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.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Depth, Chess, Well Known

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Book, Benefits, Chess

• No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Alliances, Benefits, Chess

  "Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com.

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