Vladimir Kramnik Quotes

• My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well.

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• The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent’s playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

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• Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

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• Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

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• Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him – though fortunately for me! – he hit in the wrong direction.

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• Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

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• In this respect I suppose I’m the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don’t.

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• But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.

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• Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match.

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Vladimir Kramnik (29)

Birth:	22nd June, 1975
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Chess Player, Writer

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Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007.

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