Garry Kasparov citations

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 .

✵ 13. avril 1963   •   Autres noms Garry Kimovič Kasparov
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Garry Kasparov: Citations en anglais

“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)

“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)

“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.”

As quoted in "Is Putin Popular?" https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/is-putin-popular-c/ (2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review
2010s

“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.”

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

“Putin hasn’t come out of the blue, you know? It’s not just Putin. That’s why again in my book Winter is Coming, I emphasize why Vladimir Putin and enemies of the free world must be stopped. Because Putin, you may call him bosses of bosses, Capo dei Capi, he’s like a spider in the center of this web. Because Putin helps other bad guys, other thugs, dictators, and terrorists to sort of feel free to attack the free world. Because they all know that unless they attack the free world, unless they attack the United States as the leader of the free world, they will have no credibility with their own people because neither Putin nor Iranian mullahs, nor Al Qaeda, Islamic State or other dictators around the globe, they have nothing to offer but confrontation. They have to present themselves of the protectors of their own people against the world evil. And of course, they have to attack the free world that produces everything that, by the way, they use quite effectively against us. They cannot compete in innovations, they cannot compete in ideas, in productivity. But they can compete in something quite different because for us, each human life is unique. *For them, killing a thousand people, hundreds of thousands of people, a million is a demonstration of strengths. So we should realize that they have no allergy for blood. And they will keep pressing their advantage, and it’s not that we have grown – that our enemies have grown stronger. It’s our resolve that has grown weaker.”

2010s, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

“So what’s happened since ’92, it’s where the administrations that changed quite dramatically, the foreign policy, and it was working more like pendulum, swinging from one side to the other. Clinton did very little, W did too much, Obama has been doing nothing. It sent a message – sent numerous messages across the world. While people knew in the 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s that America was there, America was consistent. Even if you have a change in the Oval Office, one party replaces another, you could rely on the United States. America was behind American allies. Today? It’s probably, it’s a springtime to be an American enemy because this administration gives up everything to the enemies and betrays allies. And going back to George W. administration, it’s very popular to criticize Bush today, Bush 43. Especially for the Iraq invasion, and I’ve heard many voices, even within the Republican Party, it’s just floating with the popular trend. First of all, I have to say as somebody who was born and raised in a Communist country, I cannot criticize any action that led to the destruction of dictatorship. I think his people had wrong expectations. When they saw the collapse of Saddam’s dictatorship after American invasion of Iraq and then the collapse of a few other dictatorships during the Arab Spring, they had expectations that next day, it would be a democracy. It’s wrong. It was very naive because dictators succeeds the staying in power for so many years, not because he’s a nice guy, just helps his people to get out of poverty, but because he’s brutal, he’s cruel. He succeeds in destroying opposition, first political opposition and then freedom of press and remaining horizontal ties in the society. All the NGOs, anything that could represent not just a threat to him, but it’s any sort of the slightest dissent. It’s kind of a political desert. What do you expect in a desert after 10, 20, 30 – in the case of Gaddafi, 42 years of dictatorship?”

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)

“Bush Administration was a success.”

2010s, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

“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)

“The NSA is to the Stasi what a bad hotel is to a maximum security prison.”

Source: 2010s, Winter is Coming (2015), p. 223

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