Psychology Quotes by Garry Kasparov

Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined…

— Garry Kasparov

With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being…

— Garry Kasparov

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

— Garry Kasparov

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

— Garry Kasparov

“Overthinking numbs our instincts and turns what should be a quick decision into a mental committee meeting.”

— Garry Kasparov

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

Intelligent machines will continue that mechanization process, taking over the more menial aspects of cognition and elevating our mental lives towards creativity,…

— Garry Kasparov

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

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

For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if…

— Garry Kasparov

“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

Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force…

— Garry Kasparov

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