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| May-11-15 | | TheFocus: <I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play> - Anatoly Karpov. |
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| May-12-15 | | TheFocus: <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. |
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| May-14-15 | | TheFocus: <Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable> - Anatoly Karpov. |
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| May-15-15 | | TheFocus: <It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively> - Anatoly Karpov. |
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| May-16-15 | | TheFocus: <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. |
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| May-16-15 | | TheFocus: <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. |
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| May-21-15 | | TheFocus: <He was a pitiful sight to behold. Over and over he calculated and miscalculated the variations, and couldn’t understand how I could save myself. Of course he couldn’t — he was looking for something that wasn’t there> - Anatoly Karpov, on a Candidates’ Match game he managed to draw from a lost position against Lev Polugaevsky. |
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| May-21-15 | | Caissanist: I don't understand the May 16th quote. What is the difference between "chess understanding" and "chess knowledge"? By "chess knowledge" does he just mean opening theory? |
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| May-21-15 | | zanzibar: <Caissanist> that would be a quote which should include the original language version of it. I imagine "chess knowledge" would be the body of chess contained in study books, including both endgame and opening theory. The stuff contained in the "Soviet School of Chess", another term hard to define precisely. I could easily be wrong on this, of course. |
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| May-21-15 | | Strelets: <zanzibar> Going further, I think Karpov means positional acumen or a general sense of what squares are important and where pieces are best placed by chess understanding. Fittingly, his games are excellent for learning how to deepen one's chess understanding. |
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| May-21-15 | | zanzibar: I found a reference who points to the source of the quote - it's apparently from Karpov's then recently-published memoirs, and is mentioned in this 1992 newspaper article by Shelly Lyman: https://news.google.com/newspapers?... (The Telegraph - Apr 12, 1992, p48) |
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| May-22-15 | | Caissanist: <Strelets><zanzibar>, thanks for the insights, I had never heard the two terms used in quite that way before. |
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May-23-15
 | | Phony Benoni: For some reason, I always remember when it's Karpov's birthday. We 1951 guys stick together. Overshadowed by the ghost of Fischer and the specter of Kasparov, Karpov is not always mentioned among the greats. And perhaps he was propped up by the power of the Soviet System, and gladly accepted the advantages it gave him. But one thing he did earns my admiration. He played, and he play4d well. Fischer's inactivity left a bad taste, and there were a lot of questions when Karpov came into the title. But he settled everything by going out and dominating the chess scene in the decade before Kasparov. Certainly no champion since Alekhine had produced the same sort of results while at the top. |
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May-23-15
 | | eternaloptimist: Happy 64th birthday to my favorite chess player Anatoly Karpov (1 for every square on a chessboard)! <Phony> I always remember when it's Karpov's bday also. That's primarily b/c he's my favorite chess player. His bday is really close to my birthday (May 31st) as well. I think u hit the nail on the head mentioning Fischer's inactivity & Karpov's domination of the chess scene before Kasparov. Here's a great game by Karpov that's as smooth as butter & 1 of my favorite games of his in which he defeats GM Quinteros (from Argentina).: Karpov vs Quinteros, 1973
I played over this game for the 1st time in "My Best Games" by Karpov (the RHM book: http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/F... that was published in 1978 not the newer Edition Olms book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/32830... published in 2008) during my late teenage years back in the late '80s. Although both books are definitely worth buying. This game has just stayed in my mind for a long time. This is probably b/c the coordination of his pieces is just superb, once his attack gets going it improves w/ pretty much every move & b/c Quinteros just got squeezed to the point where his ♔side pieces were suffocated. This game is more tactical than most of his games since he is a positional player, but the constricting nature of his attack is vintage Karpov! |
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| May-24-15 | | TheFocus: Happy Birthday Karpov!
Such a great player. |
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| May-24-15 | | rayoflight: Happy Birthday,Tolya.
Your games are great and eternal and you are a gentleman.Thank you Sir for the beauty you gifted to us. |
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| May-24-15 | | TheFocus: <Since 1984, when these mad matches with Kasparov began, I never relaxed for more than ten days in a row> - Anatoly Karpov (in an interview with "Izvestia" on August 22, 2006). |
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| May-24-15 | | TheFocus: <We spent one night at the train station in Berlin. To pass the time, we played cards. Karpov demonstrated his striking talent at game-playing. I explained the rules of a game that he had never played before to him, and Tolya began beating everyone right away> - Mark Dvoretsky. |
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| May-24-15 | | TheFocus: <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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May-24-15
 | | offramp: <TheFocus: <Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable> - Anatoly Karpov.> I'm trying to find out if Ronald Reagan was a member of the Republican Party? Does anyone know? |
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| May-24-15 | | TheFocus: Who's Ronald Reagan? |
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May-24-15
| | offramp: <TheFocus: <He was a pitiful sight to behold. Over and over he calculated and miscalculated the variations, and couldn’t understand how I could save myself. Of course he couldn’t — he was looking for something that wasn’t there> - Anatoly Karpov, on a Candidates’ Match game he managed to draw from a lost position against Lev Polugaevsky> But what was the game? Karpov thinks it was not "lost", theFocus editorialized, methinks, that it was lost. Time for a scout around the correct match page... |
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| May-24-15 | | Benzol: Perhaps it might be this game Polugaevsky vs Karpov, 1974 or one of the other games from this match. |
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May-24-15
| | offramp: I think it's Polugaevsky vs Karpov, 1974. |
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| May-24-15 | | TheFocus: <offramp> <theFocus editorialized> No. I presented it as it was presented. |
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