"When your house is on fire, you cant……" — Garry Kasparov
"When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side"
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Garry Kasparov
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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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In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca…
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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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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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More Attack Quotes
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be…
— Jane Austen
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall…
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.
— Antonio Banderas
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands,…
— Jack Adams
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
— Daniel Boone
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then…
— H. Rap Brown
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,…
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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