Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparovis a Russian chess Grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 225 out of 228 months. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. Kasparov also holds records for consecutive professional tournament victoriesand Chess Oscars...
ProfessionChess Player
Date of Birth13 April 1963
CityBaku, Azerbaijan
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Putin is like Al Capone.
It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.
Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.
The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.
My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.
I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.
Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he did not lose a single game with the King's Gambit, and among those defeated were numerous strong players of all generations, from Averbakh, Bronstein and Fischer, to Seirawan.
Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.
Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.
Chess is not dominoes
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces.