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

If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

— Garry Kasparov

Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani…

— Garry Kasparov

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King…

— Garry Kasparov

I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer,…

— Garry Kasparov

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

— Garry Kasparov

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…

— Garry Kasparov

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

— Garry Kasparov

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

— Garry Kasparov

Barack Obama took over after Vladimir Putin's first aggression, in Georgia. In 2009, he did the reset policy because they had these…

— Garry Kasparov

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best…

— Garry Kasparov

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy,…

— Garry Kasparov

Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

— Garry Kasparov

Ratings are king and the money keeps flowing, and partisanship is so strong today that people rely on a few sources absolutely…

— Garry Kasparov

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the…

— Garry Kasparov

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that…

— Garry Kasparov

The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite…

— Garry Kasparov

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his…

— Garry Kasparov

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

— Garry Kasparov

We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate…

— Garry Kasparov

When you put party over principles, you can't avoid tripping over your own hypocrisy and contradictions eventually. The GOP establishment refused to…

— Garry Kasparov

Recognise that the free world is at war with Putin, and America is the leader of the free world and should build…

— Garry Kasparov

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

— Garry Kasparov

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as…

— Garry Kasparov

... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from…

— Garry Kasparov