Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
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 … - Anatoly Karpov
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 …
- Anatoly Karpov
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, fi… - Anatoly Karpov
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, fi…
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively. - Anatoly Karpov
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this. - Anatoly Karpov
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless. - Anatoly Karpov
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
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.
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
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
I don't pretend to anything more than harmony. - Anatoly Karpov
I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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 f… - 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 f…
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