Garry Kasparov Quotes about Chess

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

Chess is mental torture.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

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

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

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.

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

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.

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

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.