“My relations with Korchnoi depend on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.”

—  Anatoly Karpov

Interview on Chessbase 06.07.2005 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2495

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