Garry Kasparov - How Life Imitates Chess (2007)

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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.

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By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.

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Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.

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Millions like me in Russia want a free press, therule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

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Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

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