"In general there is something puzzling about the……" — Garry Kasparov
"In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America."
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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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Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A…
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And…
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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