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"Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

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"For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control."

"Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense."

"The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game."

"Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation."

"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."

"I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt."

"Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people."

"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
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