Garry Kasparov Quotes

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.