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Player Quotes by Garry Kasparov
- Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules…
- Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the…
- The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.
- This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
- Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.
- You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a…
- To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns,…
- By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is…
- The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
- Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he…
- A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and…
- Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
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