Anatoly Karpov Quotes

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

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

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.

It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.

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.

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to do what I can to raise the profile of chess.

... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

There's nothing good about divorce.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.

The hardest diet I was ever on was the one when I was fat. You can only wear fat clothes, you don't feel good, your sex life gets damaged, you don't have energy for anything. It's horrible.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.