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Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
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For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.
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A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
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The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.
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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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With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.
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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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Alexei Navalny, the opposition politician who has led anti-corruption protests, had a blog about a credit line to a company owned by Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, $1.75 billion from Russian state funds this is one transaction. Putin controls more money directly and indirectly than any individual in human history.
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We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate us and be as profound a boon to our prosperity as electricity. If we are fearful, and fail to press ahead, we could be overwhelmed by automation and inequality.
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In my opinion, this vicious circle will be broken by history itself. Because sticking to the current form of governance, which is to say guaranteeing the survival of [Vladimir] Putin's regime, will necessarily lead to the demise of Russia within its present borders.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
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If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.
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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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I don't make any secret of the fact that I'm closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. But even under a President Hillary Clinton, US foreign policy toward Moscow would probably be more critical and confrontational. I hope it isn't too late for that.
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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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The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
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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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Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.
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Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.
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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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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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