00:00It's your own nature because you just, it's all about survival.
00:04It's your instinct of survival, your strengths, your mental toughness to live under this pressure.
00:12And 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.
00:19One more game, one more mistake from my side, one more victory for Karpov and that would be the end.
00:27Could be the greatest victory ever.
00:29Fischer won a couple of candidate matches, 6-2 love.
00:34But those were candidate matches.
00:36There's nothing compared to a world championship match.
00:40And Anatoly Karpov was just one step away from the greatest triumph of his life.
00:43Maybe the greatest triumphs ever in the history of the world title matches.
00:49But he never made this final step.
00:52I didn't let him do that.
00:53And I would consider my achievements in that match, the survival from game 27 to game 48, probably my greatest accomplishment.
01:05One 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 lessons from my mother,
01:25that playing chess was not just about winning or losing.
01:29Of course you have to try to win.
01:30Of course winning is vital.
01:33But on top of all, it's about making the difference.
01:39It's not just winning the game because your opponent made a mistake.
01:43Of course an opponent makes a mistake.
01:45That's why you win.
01:46But it's about coming up with new ideas.
01:48It's always challenging your own excellence.
01:54It's all like competing against your own perfection.
