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 More Quotes by Anatoly Karpov More Quotes From Anatoly Karpov Chess is everything: art, science, and sport. Anatoly Karpov board-games sports art Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position Anatoly Karpov soil foundation pawns Blunders rarely travel alone. Anatoly Karpov blunders The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this. Anatoly Karpov capablanca opinion chess 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. Anatoly Karpov irritation games moving Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless. Anatoly Karpov dream happiness funny 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. Anatoly Karpov mean moving thinking Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot. Anatoly Karpov quality strong games To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well. Anatoly Karpov champion strong player Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent. Anatoly Karpov strength-and-weakness opponents weakness I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4. Anatoly Karpov pawns results chess The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. Anatoly Karpov champion player chess I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes. Anatoly Karpov different hero people 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 black kings moving I don't pretend to anything more than harmony. Anatoly Karpov harmony 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! Anatoly Karpov opponents chess success Style? I have no style. Anatoly Karpov style It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively. Anatoly Karpov pieces cost chess The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others. Anatoly Karpov learning pace ordinary 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. Anatoly Karpov games winning play
