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
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
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before. — 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
...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The… — 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
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
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
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
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
“The method you employ to achieve success is a secret because it can be discovered only by you analyzing your own decisions.… — 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
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
With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“The phrase "it's better to be lucky than good" must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever uttered. In nearly any… — 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
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
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
