“Overthinking numbs our instincts and turns what should be a quick decision into a mental committee meeting.” — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Intelligent machines will continue that mechanization process, taking over the more menial aspects of cognition and elevating our mental lives towards creativity,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
People's minds are polluted by these dark pictures of the future from Hollywood: "The Terminator," the Skynet, "The Matrix." It's world where… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate moves and rank them… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani leadership can… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer, or even… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
Barack Obama took over after Vladimir Putin's first aggression, in Georgia. In 2009, he did the reset policy because they had these stupid ideas… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
Ratings are king and the money keeps flowing, and partisanship is so strong today that people rely on a few sources absolutely instead of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share
