Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
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…
- 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
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 …
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
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…
I don't pretend to anything more than harmony. - Anatoly Karpov
I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
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.
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