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"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
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"In Kansas I have a chess school."
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"Chess is not for timid souls."
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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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"Chess is intellectual gymnastics."
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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
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"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
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"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
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"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
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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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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents."
Art
"The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give."
Happiness
"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!"
Beauty
"Chess is not only knowledge and logic."
Knowledge
"I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties."
Work
"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications."
Fear
"The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime."
Time
"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands."
Beauty
"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
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"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
Modesty
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