Garry Kasparov
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performanceCollection: Art
If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.Collection: Risk
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.Collection: Hard Work
Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.Collection: Regret
The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.Collection: Success
We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.Collection: Thinking
A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible onesCollection: Moving
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.Collection: Chess
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.Collection: Success
I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.Collection: Mistake
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.Collection: Real
Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe, being under the control of the USSR, would call their states "people's republics." The sham that is currently going on in the states of the former Soviet Union is due to the fact that the politicians in power are eager to polish up their image abroad.Collection: Country
There are exceptions of course, like for instance the Baltic States, which are members of the European Union, together with Ukraine and Moldova, as well. In those countries, the governments have been reformed as a result of elections.Collection: Country
Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the high price that has been paid to buy the loyalty of the local elite through an enormous tribute of multibillion[-ruble] investments, all this cannot be an arrangement for good.Collection: Loyalty
Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.Collection: Littles
Most likely, the system of mutual relations that has evolved in Eastern Europe and Asia corresponds to another level of governance.Collection: Europe
My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.Collection: Mistake
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.Collection: Art
Furthermore, a large portion of the assets of leading Russian figures is mixed, meaning that it is not quite clear how to counter this development.Collection: Development
It is rather difficult to envisage a scenario that could change the domestic situation in the countries of the South Caucasus without solving the problems constantly hindering normal cooperation in the region.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Mistake
What I am trying to figure out in my preface is how Romans could operate without the simple items - maps - that are necessary for running such a huge empire.Collection: Running
Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani leadership can capitalize indefinitely on this topic to underpin its legitimacy even in a situation in which democratic institutions are virtually eliminated.Collection: Strong
In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a military dictatorship that utilizes some kind of democratic procedures.Collection: Military
The situation in Georgia is determined by the breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia. While we must acknowledge the reforms initiated by Mikheil Saakashvili that drastically lowered the level of corruption and authoritarian structures in the Georgian state, under the above-mentioned circumstances, the ruling elite must keep a firm grip on the country.Collection: Country
I'm not trying to give any definite answer. What I'm trying to prove is that we have enough gaps, enough discrepancies, enough simple falsifications to conclude that probably this history was an invention of a later time.Collection: Simple
When I was on an American show in 2015, I tried to talk about the threat Vladimir Putin posed to the free world. The interviewer said, "Wake me up when he takes over Poland." We heard something similar from years ago and we ended up with World War Two. Putin decided to skip Poland and went straight to Wisconsin. Putin is at war, a hybrid war, with the free world. His domestic propaganda is based entirely on a strong man challenging the free world. When the demonstrations around Russia began, the harsh response was because it was more important to show strength.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Age
We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.Collection: Government
Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.Collection: Russia
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.Collection: Success
It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.Collection: Politics
Many so-called pragmatists want nothing to do with space exploration or other kinds of ambitious endeavours that don't have a clear payoff. This mentality is hugely damaging to our success as a civilization. Our desire to understand the universe is kindled by curiosity and wonder, and this has fuelled countless scientific breakthroughs.Collection: Curiosity
Chess is not dominoesCollection: Chess
Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.Collection: Age
You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.Collection: Cheer
Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.Collection: Character
The international repercussions were shattering to some extent - there is no intention to repeat operations of such kind in the future.[Viktor] Yanukovych's electoral victory clearly demonstrated that there are no pro-Russian politicians in the Ukraine, just Ukrainian politicians.Collection: Ukraine
Energy is connected to physical fitness. One of the reasons I stayed at the top so long is that I was tremendously fit. At 36, I was fitter than most opponents ten years younger.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Mistake
At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.Collection: Political Will
We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.Collection: Motivation
We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate us and be as profound a boon to our prosperity as electricity. If we are fearful, and fail to press ahead, we could be overwhelmed by automation and inequality.Collection: Optimistic
Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.Collection: Russia
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.Collection: Thinking
I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.Collection: Country
Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks and on stock markets, the chances for the West to exert influence on Russia are quite low. I doubt that Western leaders are willing to exert pressure. I would not exclude an intervention in case of a crisis.Collection: Russia
My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.Collection: Challenges
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.Collection: Success