Chess Quotes by Garry Kasparov

Chess is not dominoes

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

— Garry Kasparov

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

— Garry Kasparov

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

— Garry Kasparov

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

— Garry Kasparov

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

— Garry Kasparov

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

— Garry Kasparov

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

— Garry Kasparov

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

— Garry Kasparov

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if…

— Garry Kasparov

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

— Garry Kasparov

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a…

— Garry Kasparov

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

— Garry Kasparov

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

— Garry Kasparov

“When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It”

— Garry Kasparov

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have…

— Garry Kasparov

[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by…

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers,…

— Garry Kasparov

“Grandmasters play chess by combining experience with intuition, backed up with calculation and study. Computers play chess by brute calculation; their “study”…

— Garry Kasparov

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art…

— Garry Kasparov

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that…

— Garry Kasparov

I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father…

— Garry Kasparov

Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of…

— Garry Kasparov

“In chess we have the obligation to move; there is no option to skip a turn if you can’t identify a direction…

— Garry Kasparov

To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under…

— Garry Kasparov

It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they…

— Garry Kasparov

Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy…

— Garry Kasparov

Remember that the machine is there to help you, because at the end of the day, you're not playing freestyle chess, advanced…

— Garry Kasparov

All experiments that are related to the games when you have humans versus machines in the games - whether it's chess or…

— Garry Kasparov

Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage…

— Garry Kasparov

For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if…

— Garry Kasparov

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

— Garry Kasparov

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

— Garry Kasparov

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

— Garry Kasparov

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

— Garry Kasparov

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

— Garry Kasparov