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

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
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Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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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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I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp.
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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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I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser.
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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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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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By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
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Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.
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If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be accused of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.
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...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
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The only way to fail for me is just not to try.
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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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I believe more than ever, machines will put new challenges, and that means we'll have to be more creative and more human, because that's the way to make the difference.
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There is no doubt that [Vladimir] Putin is responsible for this crime, whether or not he gave the order to commit the murder [of Boris Nemtsov] himself. Putin created the conditions and atmosphere that have made this kind of thing possible.
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Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.
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The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
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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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Donald Trump is a catalyst. People care now in a way they didn't. The American institutions were rusting now they are being revitalised. Trump is a lightning rod. They are getting engaged and the American liberal media that spent too much time on PC issues can focus on Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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