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"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."
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"Give your choice a chance, do not give up."

"You're the one who has to live with your choice," she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will."

"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."

"Your decisions will determine your destination. "No decision" is the decision to be just how you were at where you had been."
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"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."


"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."


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


"For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level."
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