“In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.”
Part II, Chapter 8, Exchanges And Imbalances, p. 102
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
Garry Kimovitch Kasparov , né le 13 avril 1963 à Bakou , est un joueur d'échecs soviétique puis russe. Depuis 2014, il a aussi la nationalité croate.
Champion du monde d'échecs de 1985 à 2000 et vainqueur de nombreux tournois, il est considéré comme l'un des meilleurs joueurs, de l'histoire avec Bobby Fischer, Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexandre Alekhine, Anatoli Karpov et plus récemment Magnus Carlsen.
Premier joueur à avoir dépassé les 2 800 points Elo en janvier 1990 et à avoir obtenu le classement Elo le plus élevé jusqu'alors, avec 2 851 points , seul le champion du monde actuel du jeu d'échecs, Magnus Carlsen, lui reprit ce record en atteignant 2 882 points en mai 2014.
Depuis 2005, Kasparov a renoncé à reconquérir son titre de champion du monde perdu en 2000 et à s'imposer face aux nouvelles générations de joueurs, pour s'engager de toutes ses forces en politique dans l'opposition au président russe Vladimir Poutine et pour se consacrer à la rédaction de ses trois séries de livres sur les échecs : My Great Predecessors , Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess et Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov .
“In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.”
Part II, Chapter 8, Exchanges And Imbalances, p. 102
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
“Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.”
Part III, Chapter 11, Question Success, p. 135
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
“We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.”
Part II, Chapter 7, MTQ: Material, Time, Quality, p. 93
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
Part I, Chapter 2, Strategy, p. 34
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
2010s, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)
“I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.”
Part II, Chapter 10, The Attacker's Advantage, p. 122
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
Source: 2010s, Winter is Coming (2015), p. 17
Learn Chess with Gary Kasparov (2003)
2000s
As quoted in "Is Putin Popular?" https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/is-putin-popular-c/ (2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review
2010s
Part II, Chapter 10, The Attacker's Advantage, p. 130
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
“The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.”
As quoted in Martin Amis's review of "Kasparov-Short" by Raymond Keene, Independent on Sunday, November 1995.
1990s
“Reforms are only institutional if they have a real effect on how people live.”
Source: 2010s, Winter is Coming (2015), p. 100
2010s, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)
Part III, Endgame, p. 195
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
2010s, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)
“People ask about dictators, "Why?" But dictators themselves ask, "Why not?"”
As quoted in "Is Putin Popular?" https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/is-putin-popular-c/ (2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review
2010s
“You must also have a sense of when to stop.”
Part I, Chapter 4, Calculation, p. 51
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
“This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.”
Part I, Chapter 3, Strategy And Tactics At Work, p. 36
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
2010s, The Truth About Putin (2018)
2010s, The Truth About Putin (2018)
Source: 2010s, Winter is Coming (2015), p. 136
“The NSA is to the Stasi what a bad hotel is to a maximum security prison.”
Source: 2010s, Winter is Coming (2015), p. 223
2010s, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)
2010s, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)
2010s, The Truth About Putin (2018)