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01 / evaluation
“New versions, we are never going to catch up with computers. But for playing amongst ourselves, this is completely new territory, and there’s a lot of scope for creativity and everything we used to look for.”
02 / evaluation
“” Because I thought Carlsen is of the level of Kramnik and Topalov, so playing against him gives me a good sense of how they’ll play, how the games will materialize, and so on.”
03 / evaluation
“My thing was, I’ll check the top two things, and I’ll figure out the rest, which was not as silly as it sounds today because back in the day, that’s how you played chess.”
04 / evaluation
“Kasparov drew with Khalifman, Karpov drew with Gelfand, and I realized I’m in first place.”
05 / evaluation
“The thing is, because I started out with an early plus score against him, he saw it as a stiff rivalry.”
06 / evaluation
“The idea was, you are a better natural player than me, so you should try to steer the game through to Slav’s more harmless — which is how we came under the Kramnik approach — more harmless waters.”
07 / evaluation
“Whenever somebody tells me, “I don’t know how you concentrate for seven hours,” I understand that they don’t know how we play chess, or that they haven’t played chess themselves because we do not concentrate for seven hours.”
08 / evaluation
“What I think made the difference was, I was suddenly facing people who didn’t resign the game very quickly, who didn’t collapse, especially Karpov.”