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"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."
"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any."
"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
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"Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps."
"I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency."
"The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time."
"Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF."
"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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