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At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#berlin wall #break #confidence #could #down

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. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#allow #berlin #draw #enough #get

It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost! ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#big #big difference #boost #difference #during

No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#during #game #generally #i #inside

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. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#down #fortunately #game #going #had

So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him! ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#afraid #basically #him #important #many

The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#back #berlin #black #defence #defensive

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#chess #clarity #example #for example #found

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction. ↗

— Judith Krantz

#actually #because #before #creative #did

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#around #called #certainly #drawing #even