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

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

- Anatoly Karpov

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

- 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

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

- Anatoly Karpov

I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

- 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.

- 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