00:00You live under this pressure, and I made many draws in a row, but still, you know, I wasn't ready to turn the tide, and I lost game 27, and it was 5-0.
00:10One more game, one more mistake from my side, one more victory for Karpov, and that would be the end.
00:18Could be the greatest victory ever.
00:20Fischer won a couple of candidate matches, 6-2 love, but those who candidate matches, there's nothing compared to a world championship match, and Anatoly Karpov was just one step away from the greatest triumph of his life, maybe the greatest triumph ever in the history of the world title matches, but he never made this final step.
00:42I didn't let him do that, and I would consider my achievements in that match, the survival, from game 27 to game 48, probably my greatest accomplishment.
01:02One of the reasons I always felt comfortable with new challenges is that I learned from my early days, and that's probably the result of
01:12lessons from my mother, that playing chess was not just about winning or losing.
01:20Of course, you have to try to win.
01:21Of course, winning is vital, but on top of all, it's about making the difference.
01:30It's not just winning the game because your opponent made a mistake.
01:34Of course, opponent makes a mistake.
01:36That's why you win, but it's about coming up with new ideas.
01:39It's always challenging your own excellence.
01:44It's all like competing against your own perfection.
01:50You won, but it does matter.
01:53You look at your games, you find your mistakes, and next time you have to do better.
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