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People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.

— Anatoly Karpov

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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

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.

Even a dickhead would do a better job than Ilyumzhinov. The chaos in the chess world is caused by “leaders” who are unable to do their job properly.

My relations with Korchnoi depend on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.

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