Vladimir Kramnik Quotes

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• Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

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  Sports, Bodybuilding, Training

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• I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.

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  Games, Play, Style

  "Kramnik on health, plans - and computers". Interview with Frederic Friedel, en.chessbase.com. March 13, 2006.

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• Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

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  Mistake, Objectivity, Understanding

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• So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!

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  Winning, Simple, Important

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• It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

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  Success, Winning, Chess

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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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  Wall, Eye, Fighting

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• Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.

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  Chess, Lost, Feels

  "Vladimir Kramnik: 'Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost'". Interview with Alexander Schwabe, en.chessbase.com. June 9, 2006.

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• I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

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  Children, Character, Hands

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• Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

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  Games, Play, Chess

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

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  Player, Games, Chess

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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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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  Art, Self, Expression

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview With Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

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  Creativity, Imagination, Development

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.

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  Bed

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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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  Character, Player, Personality

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview With Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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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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  Player, Playing Chess, Limits

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• When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

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  Games, Example, Chess

  "About Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth, Creativity, Telepathy and Artificial Intelligence". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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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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  Ghouls, Lines, Able

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• Computers have changed the world of chess.

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  World, Chess, Computer

  "Kramnik on health, plans - and computers". Interview with Frederic Friedel, en.chessbase.com. March 13, 2006.

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• I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

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  Believe, Player, Creating

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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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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  Giving, Style, Boards

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• My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

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  Book, Practice, Games

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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.

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  Jobs, Team, Player

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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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  Player, Long, World

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• Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

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  Giving, Effort, Intellectual

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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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  Practice, Games, Ideas

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