Garry Kasparov Quotes

I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

In Syria, Vladimir pUTIN sees the chance to make millions of refugees and weaponise them. The US has to take a lead in defending the values of the free world.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.

Chess is not dominoes

I believe more than ever, machines will put new challenges, and that means we'll have to be more creative and more human, because that's the way to make the difference.

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

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.

Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.

Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.

I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.

My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

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

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

Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

There's the blazing Russian Caucasus, with an ongoing war all against all, which is not to be neglected.

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

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

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.