Top 100 Anatoly Quotes
#1. I operated a periscopic TV camera so the commander, Anatoly Artsebarsky, could establish where we were heading. It is real teamwork on Soyuz.
Helen Sharman
#2. [Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.
Viktor Korchnoi
#3. Anatoly Karpov, his by-the-book opponent, was too conservative to pressure Kasparov early in the game, so Kasparov put the pressure on himself with a Queen's Gambit - and won.
Christopher McDougall
#4. 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 in this profession
Mikhail Botvinnik
#5. My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
Vladimir Kramnik
#6. Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess.
Anatoly Karpov
#7. Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
Anatoly Karpov
#8. It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
Anatoly Chubais
#9. The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.
Anatoly Chubais
#10. Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
Anatoly Karpov
#11. I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
Anatoly Karpov
#12. I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
Anatoly Karpov
#13. Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
Anatoly Karpov
#14. I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
Anatoly Karpov
#15. The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.
Anatoly Rybakov
#16. For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
Anatoly Chubais
#18. We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.
Anatoly Berezovoy
#19. I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
Anatoly Karpov
#20. Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.
Anatoly Karpov
#21. I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.
Anatoly Karpov
#22. I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
Anatoly Chubais
#23. Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov
Anatoly Karpov
#24. As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.
Anatoly Karpov
#27. Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
Anatoly Karpov
#28. Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
Anatoly Chubais
#29. My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
Anatoly Karpov
#30. The Americans have gone through 150 years of ups and downs, to pull themselves up out of the mud. After only 15 years, Russia is already in the process of liberating itself from the same thing.
Anatoly Chubais
#31. I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
Anatoly Karpov
#32. Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.
Anatoly Chubais
#33. For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.
Anatoly Rybakov
#34. There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.
Anatoly Chubais
#35. If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.
Anatoly Karpov
#36. An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!
Anatoly Karpov
#37. But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!
Anatoly Karpov
#38. I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.
Anatoly Chubais
#39. The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.
Anatoly Chubais
#40. You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.
Anatoly Chubais
#41. The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...
Anatoly Karpov
#42. After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
Anatoly Karpov
#43. My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.
Anatoly Karpov
#44. I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.
Anatoly Chubais
#45. I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.
Anatoly Karpov
#46. The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.
Anatoly Chubais
#47. Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.
Anatoly Chubais
#48. If civilization is in danger today ... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation.
Anatoly Kuznetsov
#49. I have won Russia at least 16 world championships. I have fought for my country.
Anatoly Karpov
#50. I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.
Anatoly Chubais
#51. There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.
Anatoly Chubais
#52. These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable.
Anatoly Chubais
#53. This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
Anatoly Karpov
#54. I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.
Anatoly Chubais
#56. 40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.
Anatoly Chubais
#57. During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
Anatoly Chubais
#58. If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
Anatoly Karpov
#59. Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.
Anatoly Karpov
#60. No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
Anatoly Karpov
#61. The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
Anatoly Karpov
#62. For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.
Anatoly Chubais
#63. The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.
Anatoly Chubais
#64. The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
Anatoly Karpov
#65. It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.
Anatoly Karpov
#66. The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.
Anatoly Chubais
#67. Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
Anatoly Chubais
#68. I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
Anatoly Rybakov
#70. In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.
Anatoly Chubais
#71. A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.
Anatoly Rybakov
#72. Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.
Anatoly Karpov
#73. The adjective sleazy must have acquired its present-day meaning to conform to its sound shape. A word cannot exist in slums, surrounded by slatterns and sluts, and preserve its purity amid all this slime.
Anatoly Liberman
#74. We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.
Anatoly Karpov
#75. Scientific socialism, is the most religious of all religions, and the true Social Democrat is the most deeply religious of all human beings.
Anatoly Lunacharsky
#76. The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
Anatoly Chubais
#77. Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
Anatoly Chubais
#78. Russia is a state within a state. To understand the population of Russia, you need to know the areas of the country; you need an understanding of the people and their interests.
Anatoly Karpov
#79. During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.
Anatoly Chubais
#80. If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.
Anatoly Karpov
#81. The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
Anatoly Karpov
#82. I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my ... this was always my weakness.
Anatoly Karpov
#83. The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
Anatoly Karpov
#84. The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.
Anatoly Karpov
#87. There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.
Anatoly Chubais
#88. Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
Anatoly Karpov
#89. No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.
Anatoly Karpov
#90. There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
Anatoly Chubais
#91. I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
Anatoly Karpov
#92. By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
Anatoly Karpov
#93. Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.
Anatoly Karpov
#94. Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
Anatoly Karpov
#95. To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
Anatoly Karpov
#96. A totalitarian system leaves behind it a minefield built into both the country's social structure and the individual psychology of its citizens. And mines explode each time the system faces the danger of being dismantled and the country sees the prospect of genuine renewal.
Anatoly Sobchak
#97. If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.
Anatoly Chubais
#98. You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.
Anatoly Chubais
#100. Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.
Anatoly Karpov
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