Garry Kasparov Quotes About Chess
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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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Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
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Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
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It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked at chess as the ultimate test. So they thought, "Oh, if a machine can play chess, and beat strong players, set aside a world champion, that would be the sign of a dawn of the AI era." With all due respect, they were wrong.
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When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.
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When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side
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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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Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.
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A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
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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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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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By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.
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I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.
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Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.
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It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.
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A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
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By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.
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My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.
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I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.
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Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
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Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.
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The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.
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Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.
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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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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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It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.
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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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Chess is not dominoes
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