Garry Kasparov Quotes

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

You're always playing the game to reach the ultimate goal.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them.

Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

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.

It's all about practice and more practice. Travel to tournaments, play in them, watch other players.

If you are a referee, it's not easy because everyone wants to win, and so there will be cheating.

Sport is dirty if you want to win, but I am not a dirty player.

It's just, some players I don't respect. Just their playing style of basketball. I don't respect it. I feel like it's basically cheating and I don't respect a cheater. If that's your tactic to winning, I don't respect you.

You go out onto the playing field every time to win and you will do all you can to do that, but not at all costs and especially not to cheat.

There's no extra significance on beating a certain player. It's kind of like golf. You're just out there playing, and whatever ends up happening ends up happening.

My goal is to beat you whether you're clean or dirty.