288 Quotes by Garry Kasparov

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren’t fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights.

Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don’t have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.

I dropped the King’s Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

Vladimir Putin uses fascist propaganda to do so. From Ukraine to Syria, he is behaving like the world’s new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits on the sidelines and Europe sleeps. The West’s behavior toward Putin is political and moral capitulation.

The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

Putin can’t afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

Typically, however, the winner is just the player who made the next-to-last mistake.

Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent – it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players.