Explore Quotes by Anatoly Karpov

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.

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

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

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

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

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

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

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.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

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

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.

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

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

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.