"A championship contender in the early twentieth century……" — Garry Kasparov
"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 unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser."
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129 Quotes by Garry Kasparov
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...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come…
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Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are…
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Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one…
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Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my…
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Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of…
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Chess is mental torture.
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Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to…
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For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the…
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When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if…
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By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
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Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous…
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