Garry Kasparov Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• 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

  Mother, Kings, Father

• 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

  Kings, School, Winning

• 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

  Views, Long, Might

  "World's Best Chess Players Deny Brilliance" by Benjamin Carlson, www.theatlantic.com. March 25, 2010.

• This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Believe, Heart

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

  Garry Kasparov

  Character, Player, Psychology

• 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

  Success, Battle, Energy

• If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Brave, Risk

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mean, World, Chess

• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov

  Chess, Torture

  Independent on Sunday, November 1995.

• 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

  Responsibility, Play, Chess

• 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

  Play, Ideas, Political

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

  Garry Kasparov

  Regret, Mistake, Moving

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Garry Kasparov

  Style, Chess, Symbiosis

• The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Worst Enemy, Play, Clouds

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• 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

  Russia, Politics, Outcomes

• Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Winning, Challenges

• 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

  Team, Intelligent, Blue

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

• 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

  Games, Chess, Novelty

• Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

  Garry Kasparov

  Winning, Needs, Chess

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.

  Garry Kasparov

  Loss, Fighting, Childhood

  "The Tsar's Opponent" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2007.

• 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

  Chess, Matter, Chance

• 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

  Brain, Tactics, Chess

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Garry Kasparov

  Play, Chess, Conservative

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.102, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mistake, Opportunity, Chess

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

  Garry Kasparov

  Chess, Imagine, Difficult

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