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Chess is not dominoes

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
Chess Player
Critic
Journalist
Politician
Writer
City of Winds
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Garik Kimovich Weinstein
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Dominoes

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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
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I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser.
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By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
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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.
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I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.
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Rosneft, for instance, was mainly built upon capital stolen from [jailed oligarch Mikhail] Khodorkovsky's company, but the IPO was successful with many Western corporations investing in it. This means that it is extremely difficult to detect these assets in their pure form.
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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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