There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end. — 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
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
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
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
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
All experiments that are related to the games when you have humans versus machines in the games - whether it's chess or… — 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
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy… — 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
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. — 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
With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
