Garry Kasparov Quotes

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

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

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.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.

I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

Chess is one long regret.

Why are most chess masters under 30?

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.