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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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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
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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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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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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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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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The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.
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Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.
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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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I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces.
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I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
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Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.
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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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Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.
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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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We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
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There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.
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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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The only way to fail for me is just not to try.
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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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I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.
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