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"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost."
"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."
"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
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"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
"When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on."
"The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game."
"In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you."
"Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people."
"I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else."
"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."
"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
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