Garry Kasparov Quotes

War strategy is always unique. It is like a chess game. The pieces are always the same but each game is unique

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

I play my enemies like a game of chess

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.

To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

I am very lucky in my team. They sit opposite me, and I get to see them every day sitting there staring at the seating chart, not doing much. It is almost like a chess game.

Analysis of opponents is something I like doing.

In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.

I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.