[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in…

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people…

— Bobby Fischer

I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it…

— Bobby Fischer

Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman…

— Anatoly Karpov

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of…

— Magnus Carlsen

“Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and Putin opponent who said, “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda.…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have…

— Maurice Ashley

Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand…

— Vladimir Kramnik

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

— Lou Gerstner

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

— Nigel Short

The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was…

— Viktor Korchnoi

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on…

— Bobby Fischer

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and…

— Vladimir Kramnik

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really…

— Bruce Pandolfini