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Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
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City of Winds
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We can't attribute a long history of democratic traditions to Japan, either, but today Japan boasts a fully-fledged democracy in which governments change according to democratic procedures. It's no coincidence that the Taiwanese, Japanese, and South Korean economies are among the most innovative in Asia.
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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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The situation in the [North Caucasus ] region can easily get out of control if the capital inflow is interrupted. It is apparent, even when leaving democratic institutions and values aside for a moment, that [Vladimir] Putin's regime has led the country down a blind alley. Our task is to usher in a shift of paradigms, a new foundation.
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Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.
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You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.
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I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.
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Chess is not dominoes
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The only way to fail for me is just not to try.
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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.
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With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
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Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.
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Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for his/her own actions.
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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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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
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One does not succeed by sticking to convention.
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One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.
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In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.
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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.
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Everyone is concerned about his niche, his name, and wants to adapt the concept to so-called national characteristics. But at the end of the day, it's all the same.
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