#d

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#beauty #chess #create #creativity #depends

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

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

— Vladimir Kramnik

#complex #game #infinitely #numerous #play

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#destroy #entire #even #fault #game

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#because #board #emotions #give #i

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#be nice #been #before #feel #generous

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#better #bigger #choice #choose #choosing

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. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#body #body language #displays #emotions #emotive

I can't die but once. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#i #once