Anatoly Karpov Quotes

I'm a pretty good chess player.

For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.

When you first start playing, that's your aim obviously, to win the world title.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we face off with each other lyrically, we challenge each other's minds on the chessboard. Sharpen each other's swords.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.

My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.