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If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
Chess Player
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City of Winds
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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.
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More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
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Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.
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In my opinion, this vicious circle will be broken by history itself. Because sticking to the current form of governance, which is to say guaranteeing the survival of [Vladimir] Putin's regime, will necessarily lead to the demise of Russia within its present borders.
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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.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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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.
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Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
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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.
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It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.
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I tried to come up with a definition of this new paradigm in six articles entitled Russia after Putin. I would consider Russia's integration into Europe the most important element of this strategy.
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It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.
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My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it's not a western invention.
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Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.
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A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
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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.
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The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.
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At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.
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My opponent is Short and the match will be short.
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