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"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."
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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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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
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"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."
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"Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player."
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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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"In Kansas I have a chess school."
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"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
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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."
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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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"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!"
Difference
"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."
Beauty
"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."
Strength
"I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous."
Now
"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."
Decision
"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."
Equality
"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."
Direction
"So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!"
Want
"The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well."
Strategy
"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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