I have no idea how long Putin will last. The good news is, Putin doesn't know either. It will be sudden and it won't be peaceful. He has burned his bridges. Garry Kasparov More Quotes by Garry Kasparov More Quotes From Garry Kasparov All experiments that are related to the games when you have humans versus machines in the games - whether it's chess or "Go" or any other game - machines will prevail not because they can solve the game. Chess is mathematically unsolvable. But at the end of the day, the machine doesn't have to solve the game. The machine has to win the game. And to win the game, it just has to make fewer mistakes than humans. Which is not that difficult since humans are humans and vulnerable, and we don't have the same steady hand as the computer. Garry Kasparov winningmistakechess I would say that when you go to the very, very top, it's an ability to come up with new ideas, with something new, to make the difference. Every world champion, every player who was traversing this universe, managed to bring something new to the game. This ability to always find some unconventional ways. That makes the final difference. Garry Kasparov championplayerworld Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification. Garry Kasparov justificationideology It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better. Garry Kasparov teamintelligentblue Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing. Garry Kasparov chessmeanworld One of my optimistic prophecies is based on the assumption that machines could have the best algorithms in the universe, but it will never have purpose. And the problem for us to explain purpose to a machine is because we don't know what our purpose is. We have the purpose, but we still ... When we look at this global picture, a universal picture, to understand what is our purpose being here on this planet? We don't know. Garry Kasparov optimisticassumptionpurpose Donald Trump is a catalyst. People care now in a way they didn't. The American institutions were rusting; now they are being revitalised. Trump is a lightning rod. They are getting engaged and the American liberal media that spent too much time on PC issues can focus on Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Garry Kasparov carefocuspeople 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 noveltygameschess Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. Garry Kasparov fighterplayerchess Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. Given the opportunity, I must have the guts to explode the game, to upend my opponent's thinking and, in so doing, unnerve him. So it is in business: One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized. Garry Kasparov opportunitymovingthinking 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 chessamericafacts In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. Garry Kasparov secretwantchess 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 machineswinninglong In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute. Garry Kasparov bigamymonarchychess Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess. Garry Kasparov weaknessgamescharacter It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess. Garry Kasparov difficultimaginechess 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. Garry Kasparov creativemeanbelieve There is a good chance Donald Trump won't survive four years. Conflict of interest is the biggest danger for Trump. He is destroying one of the pillars of the free world. He is seeking to eliminate the very concept of conflict of interest. A lot of things in America were built on a code of honour. I am confident the damage done by ruling through family and friends will be made impossible by future regulation. Garry Kasparov family-and-friendsdoneworld Donald Trump envies anyone who can do things he can't. Garry Kasparov envy That machines will surpass us in intelligence is inevitable. What it means is unknowable. Will they be sentient? What will they care about in the sense that determines our human motivations? All the theorizing by the experts and non-experts makes for interesting conversations and dramatic headlines, but it's more likely we will be surprised by how our technology develops and how it is used, as we so often are. Garry Kasparov technologymotivationmean
