Garry Kasparov Quotes

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

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

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.

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.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

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

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

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

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

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if they're right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

Combination is a soul of chess.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.