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The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
Chess Player
Critic
Journalist
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Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves on their computers. But that doesn’t mean they are special.
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By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.
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Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.
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The Far East and Eastern Siberia are already developing according to a Chinese scenario, the full scope of which will be revealed in the near future. In the next 10 to 15 years, a lot of Russian territories will become at least de facto Chinese. This will change the situation in Russia fundamentally.
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I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces.
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Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.
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Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.
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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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My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.
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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 true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.
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I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.
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We are living in a world where major states and large geopolitical projects have to prove their competitive edge. It is clear, as well, that with regard to the intensifying American-Chinese confrontation and the inert power of a united Europe, Russia has to make up its mind - because it is losing ground as an independent center of power.
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The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.
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I have no idea how long Putin will last. The good news is, Putin doesn't know either. It will be sudden and it won't be peaceful. He has burned his bridges.
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If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
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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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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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Intelligent machines will continue that mechanization process, taking over the more menial aspects of cognition and elevating our mental lives towards creativity, curiosity, beauty, and joy. These are what truly makes us human.
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Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.
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