Top 75 Garry Kasparov Chess Quotes
#1. The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.
Garry Kasparov
#2. Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.
Garry Kasparov
#3. With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.
Garry Kasparov
#4. The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry.
Magnus Carlsen
#5. The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.
Garry Kasparov
#6. A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.
Garry Kasparov
#7. Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for his/her own actions.
Garry Kasparov
#8. I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
Garry Kasparov
#9. 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.
Garry Kasparov
#10. 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.
Garry Kasparov
#12. I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov
#13. The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
Garry Kasparov
#14. I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.
Garry Kasparov
#15. I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.
Lou Gerstner
#16. There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.
Garry Kasparov
#17. The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.
Garry Kasparov
#18. Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.
Garry Kasparov
#19. 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 constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.
Garry Kasparov
#20. Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.
Garry Kasparov
#21. 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.
Garry Kasparov
#22. The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
Garry Kasparov
#23. Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov
#24. 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.
Garry Kasparov
#25. I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.
Garry Kasparov
#27. I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.
Garry Kasparov
#28. Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.
Garry Kasparov
#29. Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.
Garry Kasparov
#30. Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.
Garry Kasparov
#31. In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Garry Kasparov
#32. When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It
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#33. 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.
Garry Kasparov
#34. Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.
Garry Kasparov
#35. I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve.
Garry Kasparov
#37. Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles
Garry Kasparov
#38. A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
Garry Kasparov
#39. Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.
Garry Kasparov
#40. It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.
Garry Kasparov
#41. 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 and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.
Garry Kasparov
#42. Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.
Garry Kasparov
#43. Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do
Maurice Ashley
#44. Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.
Garry Kasparov
#45. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
Garry Kasparov
#46. Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.
Garry Kasparov
#47. In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.
Garry Kasparov
#48. Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.
Garry Kasparov
#49. The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov
#50. 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'.
Garry Kasparov
#51. Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.
Garry Kasparov
#52. Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
#53. Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.
Garry Kasparov
#54. One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
Magnus Carlsen
#55. Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
Garry Kasparov
#57. Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.
Garry Kasparov
#58. There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.
Garry Kasparov
#59. I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov
#60. You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov
#61. Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess ...
Garry Kasparov
#62. 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.
Garry Kasparov
#63. It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov
#64. Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov
Anatoly Karpov
#65. I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov
#66. By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
Garry Kasparov
#67. In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Garry Kasparov
#68. Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.
Garry Kasparov
#69. 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
Garry Kasparov
#71. By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.
Garry Kasparov
#72. 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.
Garry Kasparov
#73. Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov
#74. In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
Garry Kasparov
#75. His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the first world champion to its development is comparable with the great scientific discoveries of the 19th century.
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