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The fact is he outplayed me. He just proved to be stronger.
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What happens to you at the board begins to feel like it's happening to you in person.
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I learned to play fast without agonizing about strategy or overanalyzing individual moves
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Since the 1990s technology has taken some of the sheen off the Russian trainers and their methods.
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Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
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When I first visited Moscow in the late 1980s, I was so intimidated. I thought I could be checkmated by every cabdriver.
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When I started out, Indians did not have much interest in chess…Now India seems to spawn new chess academies every day.
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When you lose, you really feel a sense of self … You actually feel that you are being taken apart, rather than just your pieces.
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... in 2000, when I defeated Alexei Shirov at the World Chess Championship in Teheran to become the first Indian ever to win the title.
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I started at the age of six. My elder brother and sister were dabbling a bit, and then I went to my mother and pestered her to teach me as well.
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I wasn't expecting him to be a gracious, so fair enough. The winner can say anything when he wins... so I guess we will just have to swallow it for now.
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As a young kid sprouting a wispy moustache, I was sometimes dismissed by the Russians as an upstart. I have been referred to even as a coffeehouse player
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Age is part of it. For instance, I recognise that [Carlsen] is going to do certain things because he's 22 and there are certain things I can do because I'm 43.
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Anything unusual that you can produce has quadruple, quintuple the value, precisely because your opponent is likely to do the predictable stuff, which is on a computer.
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One of the things I bring to my play is my Indian identity – my ability to shrug off a loss as destiny and hope for better tomorrow. I am often described as a natural or intuitive player.
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My dream is chess played in every school in India. The Soviets would include a chessboard along with the bride's trousseau to ensure that the children born of that marriage knew the rules of chess.
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I have what I think is an extremely Indian relationship with God.... In Moscow before the tie breaker of the World Championship in May 2012, I again entreated God: Just stay on my side of the board.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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December 11, 1969
(age 54)
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