Kasparov Best Quotes & Sayings

Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats — Garry Kasparov

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

It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions. — Garry Kasparov

I'm a firm a believer in the power of free enterprise to move the world forward. All that Soviet respect for science was no match for the American innovation machine once unleashed. The problem comes when the government is inhibiting innovation with overregulation and short-sighted policy. Trade wars and restrictive immigration regulations will limit America's ability to attract the best and brightest minds, minds needed for this and every forthcoming Sputnik moment. — Garry Kasparov

I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people. — Garry Kasparov

Chess is mental torture. — Garry Kasparov

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security. — Garry Kasparov

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

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

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

Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life. — Garry Kasparov

Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action. — Garry Kasparov

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. — Garry Kasparov

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. — Garry Kasparov

[Vladimir] Putin wants to keep [Bashar] Assad in power and expand his own military base in Syria, whatever the cost. I even believe he has an interest in more and more people fleeing the country. The flow of refugees improves his negotiating position toward the West, including the German chancellor. — Garry Kasparov

This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision. — Garry Kasparov

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

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

Putin is like Al Capone. — Garry Kasparov

Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer a realistic chance to achieve regime change through peaceful political means, or real elections. Boris, on the other hand, never lost this hope. He felt that my assessment was premature and said: "You have to live a long time to see changes in Russia." He was deprived of that opportunity. — Garry Kasparov

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game. — Garry Kasparov

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed. — Garry Kasparov

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

In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to as many students as possible. We've assembled the very best in chess education to develop a complete chess curriculum - K through 12. We've designed a program that encourages creativity, instills self-discipline and offers hope and a feeling of accomplishment to millions of children. — Garry Kasparov

When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at. — Dominic Lawson

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

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France. — Garry Kasparov

It is not what a government does with data that defines it; it is what it does to human beings. Any — Garry Kasparov

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.. — Garry Kasparov

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

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute. — Garry Kasparov

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

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

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method. — Garry Kasparov

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood. — Garry Kasparov

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

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down. — Garry Kasparov

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature. — Garry Kasparov

Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one — Garry Kasparov

Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by. — Garry Kasparov

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

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer. — Garry Kasparov