I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Grandmasters play chess by combining experience with intuition, backed up with calculation and study. Computers play chess by brute calculation; their “study”… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I've seen up close the benefits and drawbacks of kids working with super-strong chess programs in their training, and they definitely think… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
My life is split in three parts; I don't know the percentage. One could be called "chess" - the Kasparov Chess Foundation,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called… — 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
In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess - it's a nonmainstream game. And the irony is that when you look at Hollywood, it kept using chess as the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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 Image
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by bluffing. There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end. Things are currently the other way around in Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.” quote by Garry Kasparov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/26d/garry-kasparov-910_chess_vladimir-putin-is-more-of-a-poker-player_1340421.jpg)
