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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication! > - Viktor Korchnoi. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <There came a time when I realized that the ability to defend was - for a good chess player - insufficient. You can't be dependent upon your opponent's will, but must try to impose your will on him> - Viktor Korchnoi. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <In a way, Kortchnoi may count himself lucky that he never became World Champion; even now, at the age of 80, he is still playing with the greatest possible enjoyment. It seems that to me that in order to stay active your primary motive should be enjoyment> - Jan Timman. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth> - Garry Kasparov. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <As far as Kortchnoi the chess player is concerned, he fulfilled himself as much as his strength and talent allowed> - Anatoly Karpov. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <My association with Kortchnoi is linked with many difficult moments, dark thoughts, disappointments, and despair, but I have nothing against Kortchnoi> - Anatoly Karpov. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <I have heard so many times that Kortchnoi had the great misfortune of meeting me when his best playing was already behind him. Nothing of the sort! Kortchnoi's best years arrived exactly at the time he battled me> - Anatoly Karpov. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <With all his outward aplomb, ostentatious strength, and demonstrative assurance, Kortchnoi was always a rather unstable and doubting person> - Anatoly Karpov. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <Kortchnoi has a stable opening repertoire, with which he aims to lure his opponents into schemes where he is well versed> - Anatoly Karpov. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <When playing against Kortchnoi you have to think not only about the current moves, but also about what the opponent may take the liberty of doing, and this is not the best atmosphere for creativity> - Anatoly Karpov. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <Kortchnoi rarely declines any opportunity to gain material> - Anatoly Karpov. |
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| May-18-15 | | TheFocus: <Kortchnoi has maintained his drive by refusing to look back at what would be the glory days for just about anyone else. He is still driven by the game of chess and by an earnest desire to beat his opponent, not merely to do his best> - Garry Kasparov. |
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| May-20-15 | | Mr 1100: They should get Korchnoi to play some games against the latest generation of GM's - like Sam Sevian... I mean, there are many players who can say they've played against three "generations" of players, but Korchnoi can then claim to be perhaps the only player to have played against players from three different centuries!!! And Sevian's generation can say they played againt a guy who played against Levenfish... |
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| May-23-15 | | TheFocus: <Viktor Kortchnoi was always saying: if you want to make progress, you have to learn new openings all the time. If such a person gives you such an advice, you should listen to it> - Boris Gelfand. |
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| May-25-15 | | TheFocus: <Chessplayers are of varying character. Some, in order to be confident of success, have to see their opponents as a friend, while others must, without fail, feel enmity towards the opponent... There are many more of the second type, and it must be admitted that the author belongs to this group> - Viktor Kortchnoi. |
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| May-27-15 | | TheFocus: <I like to coax my opponents into attacking, to let them taste the joy of the initiative, so that they may get carried away, become careless, and sacrifice material> - Viktor Kortchnoi. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | TheFocus: <At one point, after having already become a Grandmaster and champion of the USSR,I suddenly realized that I am heading for a dead end... I had to start everything over. But how hard and agonizing it is when you're no longer 16, but twice that age!> - Viktor Korchnoi. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | TheFocus: <I don't study; I create> - Viktor Korchnoi. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | TheFocus: <Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess> - Viktor Korchnoi. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | TheFocus: <It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock> - Viktor Korchnoi. |
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| Jun-04-15 | | TheFocus: <The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost> – Viktor Korchnoi. |
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| Jun-05-15 | | andrewjsacks: <TheFocus> Thank you for posting all these great quotes by Korchnoi. |
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| Jun-24-15 | | Tomlinsky: Reading, and listening, to Korchnoi's views on the KID he clearly has a great disrespect for the system in general. Looking at his results against it one can understand why he appears to view it as some kind of joke in the hands of many players... Wins = 157
Draws = 82
Losses = 31
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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| Jun-24-15 | | TheFocus: Yet, Korchnoi was known as an expert in the Gruenfeld Defense. |
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