Garry Kasparov

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.

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.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.