00:00You're ready to have enough stamina for serious competitions,
00:06because it's not just about playing.
00:08You have to play, and you have to win.
00:17A lot of people around me believe that I could be a great player.
00:23I could be even a world champion.
00:24I remember in 1972, yes, 1972, when Bobby Fischer won his title,
00:36beating Boris Baskin, I was given a present from one of our relatives,
00:45and it was a chess board.
00:48And there was a chess board, and it had squares surrounding the board
00:58with pictures of world champions.
01:03There were 11.
01:04And then there was one square left, and I was told it would be for Karpov,
01:17because I really expected Karpov to challenge Fischer.
01:20And a relative who gave this present saying, said,
01:26there's no square, but there's a room.
01:29And I hope that that will be your place, your place in chess history.
01:36From the very beginning, we believed in number 13.
01:40It's a prodigy.
01:45I couldn't help myself thinking that Karpov was number 12.
01:49So I was born April 13.
01:50So maybe I was destined to become number 13 as a world champion.
01:56I remember that in 1978, when Korshner played Karpov.
01:59Karpov was number 13 as a world champion of the world champion of the world champion of the world champion of the world champion.
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