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Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
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.
In Kansas I have a chess school.
Style? I have no style.
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.
Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.
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!
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.
Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
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.
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.
You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
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.
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.
I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
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.
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!
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
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 knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.
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.
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...
