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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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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
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The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.
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We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.
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The only way to fail for me is just not to try.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
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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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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by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
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If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.
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All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.
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Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.
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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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In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.
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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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[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by bluffing. There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end. Things are currently the other way around in Putin's realm. But it won't stay that way forever.
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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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[Romans] never made any improvements on the cavalry. And amazingly, when you read the sources, they couldn't make it because stirrups were not known in Europe. For hundreds of years, the Romans couldn't make a cavalry which proved to be extremely effective.
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My opponent is Short and the match will be short.
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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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