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Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
Chess Player
Critic
Journalist
Politician
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City of Winds
Gary Kasparov
Garik Kimovich Weinstein
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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.
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Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.
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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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Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.
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We are living in a new ice age, and we need to apply the recipes of the Cold War to the Kremlin. That means isolation instead of offers of negotiation. And Ukraine should have been supplied with weapons long ago.
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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
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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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The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.
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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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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
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