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Viktor Korchnoi has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
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Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and…
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The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
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Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to…
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The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While…
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Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of…
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All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
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The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
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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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Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
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As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried…
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It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such…
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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…
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and…
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In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at…
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The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While…
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My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some…
— Vladimir Kramnik
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I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered…
— Bobby Fischer
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My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well.
— Vladimir Kramnik
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