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 More Quotes by Garry Kasparov More Quotes From Garry Kasparov To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board. Garry Kasparov playergamesmistake 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 mistaketryinggiving 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 typicaleverydaypeople 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 tongueagechess There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else? Garry Kasparov destinydifferencesresponsibility Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and a very small portion of accumulated knowledge infused by other human beings. So in chess we can compare these two incompatible things and probably make projections into our future. Is there danger that the human mind will be overshadowed by the power of computers, or we can still survive? Garry Kasparov creativityuniquetwo 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. Garry Kasparov meanfactspeople I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay. Garry Kasparov stay-strongyearsthinking Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess. Garry Kasparov brutalpsychologychess If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences. Garry Kasparov fightingdecisioncountry I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik. Garry Kasparov bad-experienceskingschess The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail. Garry Kasparov decisionsimplesuccess 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 titleswomenevents There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar. Garry Kasparov womencompetitionexample We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types. Garry Kasparov rehabilitationpropagandaused Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action. Garry Kasparov causesactionlittles All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov. Garry Kasparov fatetwoyears When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator. Garry Kasparov kgbeightrussia [Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position. Garry Kasparov putinwarneeds The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow. Garry Kasparov ukrainehopefulagreement
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