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Garry Kasparov
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“The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.”
Garry Kasparov (born 1963) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Martin Amis's review of "Kasparov-Short" by Raymond Keene, Independent on Sunday, November 1995.
“In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.”
Garry Kasparov (born 1963) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Learn Chess with Gary Kasparov (2003)
“My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.”
Garry Kasparov (born 1963) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Guardian interview, Stephen Moss Monday March 14, 2005
“Every country has its own mafia. In Russia, the mafia has its own country.”
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“Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position." December 2001”
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“Having spent a lifetime analyzing the game of chess and comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. 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.”
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“It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.”
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“With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.”
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“This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.”
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“You must also have a sense of when to stop.”
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“For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.”
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“Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.”
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“We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.”
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“In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.”
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“I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.”
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“If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.”
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“Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.”
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“Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.”
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“Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.”
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“Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.”
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“We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!”
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“Allow dissent & free media for 6 months in Russia and see what happens. Putin would never risk it because he’s terrified of his own people and the truth, like every dictator.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Is Putin Popular?" (2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review
“The leaders of the free world keep lowering their standards and authoritarians keep taking more territory. Eventually people wake up and ask why Putin murders in the UK or hacks in the US. Why wouldn’t he? You didn’t stop him before.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Is Putin Popular?" (2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review
“People ask about dictators, "Why?" But dictators themselves ask, "Why not?”
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Recorded in: As quoted in "Is Putin Popular?" (2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review
“Random chess lets me enjoy myself and get publicity for chess without having to disrupt my life for months of preparation." August 2018”
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“I think we're making theory or even making history because we're opening not even a new chapter but basically a new book on the game of chess. That's why I think all players are excited." —September 2018”
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“Somehow people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.”
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“Each victory pulls the victor down slightly and makes it harder to put in maximum effort to improve further.”
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“The United States is a very different thing. It's a continent-spanning nation built from scratch by millions of immigrants from every part of the world on top of its native population.”
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“Anatoly Karpov and I donated the prize fund from our 1986 world championship match to the Chernobyl victim relief fund.”
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“Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else.”
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“We must decide what we value and decide what is worth fighting for and then–the most important part–we must fight for it.”
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“Reforms are only institutional if they have a real effect on how people live.”
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“It's not common, in our age, for someone to retire while still at the top, but I'm a man who needs a goal, and who wants to make a difference.”
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“Great leaders are formed only by taking on great challenges.”
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“The NSA is to the Stasi what a bad hotel is to a maximum security prison.”
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“You can get quite far in a democracy if you can convince a majority that they are victims of a minority, and that only you can protect them.”
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
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“[C]hess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the Soviet communist regime over the decadent West.”
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“Socialism with a human face"? ... Frankenstein also had a human face.”
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“I was almost annoyed hearing that Putin plays chess and Obama or other leaders of the free world they play checkers. I thought I had to defend the integrity of my game because chess is not a game for dictators for numerous reasons. One, it’s transparent. It’s all information hundred percent available so you know exactly what you have, you know exactly what your opponent has. You don’t know what he or she is thinking, but you definitely know what kind of resources your opponent can use to hurt you, to damage your position.”
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“[I]t's very important to understand that this is the dictators always operate short-term, and democracies must operate long-term because it’s not about one individual who’s currently running the country, whether it’s president or prime minister. It’s about the success of the country. It’s about the success of the system. It’s about pressing, you know, all advantages and their strategic, lasting institutions that could make the difference even when the president or prime minister is no longer in the office.”
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“Bush Administration was a success.”
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“It’s easy to lose your reputation, it’s easy to lose your friends, to lose their confidence, than to regain it.”
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“My response to Bernie Sanders' you know uh stories you know fairytales is that uh the failure of capitalism is still much better than the success of socialism.”
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“When I retired from professional chess in 2005 to join the Russian pro-democracy movement against Putin, I was frequently asked how my chess experience might help me in politics. My answer was that it wouldn’t help much at all, because in chess we had fixed rules and uncertain results, while in Russian politics it was exactly the opposite.”
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“Putin should simply be called a dictator.”
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“This is not to say that a dictator or his policies cannot have popular support. The problem is defining what support means after 18 years of a personality cult and 24/7 propaganda that portrays Putin as a demigod protecting Russia from deadly enemies without and within. A year of fake news trolling and half-baked social media memes had half of America and its vaunted media running in circles in 2016. Imagine what it does to a population when that’s all there is, every hour, every day, for nearly two decades.”
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“As for polling, when an anonymous caller reaches a Russian at home to ask his opinion of the man who controls every aspect of the Russian police state, it would take great courage to report anything less than enthusiastic support. It is a testament to the bravery of many of my countrymen that Putin does not yet receive the 99 percent approval scores that Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qaddafi enjoyed up until the minute they no longer had the power of life and death over their own citizens.”
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“It’s still unfathomable that Russia went from joyously celebrating the end of totalitarianism to electing a KGB lieutenant-colonel in just nine years. Never take your liberty for granted, and be careful whom you vote for because it may be the last election you’ll ever have.”
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