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Democracies get the leaders they deserve, as
— Garry Kasparov
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
— Garry Kasparov
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
— Garry Kasparov
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights
— Garry Kasparov
The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry.
— Magnus Carlsen
I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.
— Garry Kasparov
I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
— Garry Kasparov
Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.
— Garry Kasparov
Russia is a mafia state today, and Putin is its top godfather.
— Garry Kasparov
[Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.
— Viktor Korchnoi
Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.
— Garry Kasparov
Chess is not dominoes
— Garry Kasparov
I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.
— Garry Kasparov
The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
— Garry Kasparov
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
— Garry Kasparov
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
— Garry Kasparov
Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.
— Garry Kasparov
Typically, however, the winner is just the player who made the next-to-last mistake.
— Garry Kasparov
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.
— Garry Kasparov
Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.
— Garry Kasparov
One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to one's enemies
— Garry Kasparov
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
— Garry Kasparov
If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.
— Garry Kasparov
The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.
— Garry Kasparov
Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
— Garry Kasparov
Putin is like Al Capone.
— Garry Kasparov
If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
— Garry Kasparov
Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
— Garry Kasparov
It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.
— Garry Kasparov
When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It
— Garry Kasparov
One does not succeed by sticking to convention.
— Garry Kasparov
One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence.
— Garry Kasparov
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
— Garry Kasparov
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.
— Garry Kasparov
Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.
— Garry Kasparov
The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
— Garry Kasparov
My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.
— Garry Kasparov
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
— Garry Kasparov
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
— Garry Kasparov
I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.
— Garry Kasparov
My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.
— Garry Kasparov
My opponent is Short and the match will be short.
— Garry Kasparov
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.
— Garry Kasparov
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
— Garry Kasparov
I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.
— Garry Kasparov
I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser.
— Garry Kasparov
[Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.
— Garry Kasparov
Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one
— Garry Kasparov
If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.
— Garry Kasparov
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.
— Garry Kasparov
At the end of the day, it's all about money.
— Garry Kasparov
I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.
— Garry Kasparov
I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
— Garry Kasparov
I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties to Russia.
— Garry Kasparov
A moral foreign policy means your positions on certain matters are clear no matter what, and that you won't forget about them when it's convenient.
— Garry Kasparov
Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.
— Garry Kasparov
With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.
— Garry Kasparov
I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.
— Lou Gerstner
Repression may begin as a means to an end, but it always ends up being an end unto itself
— Garry Kasparov
The Putin regime is and always has been about one thing: money. Specifically, about how to move it into the bank accounts of Putin's
— Garry Kasparov
I've seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.
— Garry Kasparov
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
— Garry Kasparov
The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
— Garry Kasparov
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
— Bobby Fischer
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.
— Garry Kasparov
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
— Garry Kasparov
Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.
— Garry Kasparov
What did disappear - or, at least, what faded dramatically - was the willingness of the free world to take a firm stand in support of the oppressed.
— Garry Kasparov
The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.
— Garry Kasparov
As for the sport, even there Kasparov couldn't resist a sideswipe. Most of the gold in Sochi will go to Switzerland, but into secret bank accounts.
— Anonymous
It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.
— Garry Kasparov
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.
— Garry Kasparov
Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.
— Garry Kasparov
All women are inferior to men.
— Garry Kasparov
It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
— Garry Kasparov
the gravity of past success.
— Garry Kasparov
When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.
— Dominic Lawson
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.
— Garry Kasparov
Chess is mental torture.
— Garry Kasparov
Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.
— Garry Kasparov
Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles
— Garry Kasparov
It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
— Garry Kasparov
It is foolish to let down our defenses against an attack simply because we will be in the moral right should that attack come.
— Garry Kasparov
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
— Garry Kasparov
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.
— Garry Kasparov
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
— Garry Kasparov
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
— Garry Kasparov