Garry Kasparov Games Quotations

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians..

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces.

To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.