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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
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Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.
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Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.
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At the northern border of Azerbaijan, Daghestan by no means contributes to the democratization of the Caucasus.
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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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To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board.
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I'm not in favour of a regulation-free world. I align myself with Teddy Roosevelt, who broke up the trusts. Regulation is necessary, but it should be in favour of the consumer, the citizen, and freedom.
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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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Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.
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I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.
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There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!
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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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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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By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
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There's the blazing Russian Caucasus, with an ongoing war all against all, which is not to be neglected.
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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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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.
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