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Style? I have no style.
Style, I've got no style.
Blunders rarely travel alone.
In Kansas I have a chess school.
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.
'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.
Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
I have won Russia at least 16 world championships. I have fought for my country.
Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that
The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess.
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!
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.
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.
Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.
But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!
If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.
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, finally irritation.
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.
Russia is a state within a state. To understand the population of Russia, you need to know the areas of the country; you need an understanding of the people and their interests.
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.
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.
I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness.