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
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. — 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
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started… — 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… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do. — 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
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines… — 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
When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to… — 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,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of… — 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
