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"Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction."
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"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."

"You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going."

"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you must possess decisiveness."

"The knowledge of "Where am I going?" sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things."

"After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive."
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"I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself."


"At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games."


"It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!"


"I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job."


"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."


"In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this."


"I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing."


"Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match."


"I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation."


"The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop."
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