The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer. — 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
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. — 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
I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have… — 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
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
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
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
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage… — 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
“When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It” — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. — 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
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 highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
![“[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/i/26d/garry-kasparov-910_chess_vladimir-putin-is-more-of-a-poker-player_1340421.png)
