Garry Kasparov Quotes

When you're calculating variations - especially long ones - it really helps to visualize the board.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

Chess is a game of stimulation.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

Life is a kind of chess.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

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.

Chess demands total concentration

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going to achieve it. In the military we are taught never to go for a single answer, no matter how obvious that might be.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances