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"Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature."
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"He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year."

"However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!"

"Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white."

"It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish."

"Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style."

"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."
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"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!"


"Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game."


"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."


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


"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."


"No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm."


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


"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!"


"In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't."
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