Anatoly Karpov Quotes

• Chess is everything—art, science and sport.

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• We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.

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• Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

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• Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

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• 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.

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• First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.

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• I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

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• I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

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• 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.

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• In Kansas I have a chess school.

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• No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.

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• No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

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• Style? I have no style.

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• This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer’s image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

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• To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

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Anatoly Karpov (18)

Birth:	23rd May, 1951
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Chess Player

About

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov was born at Zlatoust in the Urals region of the former Soviet Union. He is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993. He held the title until 1999, when he resigned his title in protest against FIDE's new world championship rules. For his decades-long standing among the world's elite, Karpov is considered by many to be one of the greatest players of all time.  He had a peak Elo rating of 2780, and his 90 total months at world number one is second all-time behind only Garry Kasparov since the inception of the FIDE ranking list in 1970. He has recently involved himself in several humanitarian causes, such as advocating the use of iodised salt. On December 17, 2012, Karpov supported[4] the law in the Russian Parliament banning adoption of Russian orphans by citizens of the US.

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