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I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.
— Anatoly Karpov
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.
— Anatoly Karpov
Style? I have no style.
— Anatoly Karpov
First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
— Anatoly Karpov
![Anatoly Karpov Quotes By Viktor Korchnoi: [Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/anatoly-karpov-quotes-by-viktor-korchnoi-471853.jpg "Anatoly Karpov Quotes By Viktor Korchnoi: [Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in")
[Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.
— Viktor Korchnoi
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
— Anatoly Karpov
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!
— Anatoly Karpov
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
— Anatoly Karpov
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
— Anatoly Karpov
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
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.
— Anatoly Karpov
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.
— Anatoly Karpov
If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
— Anatoly Karpov
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
— Anatoly Karpov
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
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
— Anatoly Karpov
I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
— Anatoly Karpov
Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
— Anatoly Karpov
In Kansas I have a chess school.
— Anatoly Karpov
To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
— Anatoly Karpov
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession
— Mikhail Botvinnik
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
— Anatoly Karpov
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
— 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
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
The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
— Anatoly Karpov
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
— Anatoly Karpov
No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.
— Anatoly Karpov
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.
— Anatoly Karpov
You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
— Anatoly Karpov
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
— Anatoly Karpov
I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
— 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