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Garry Kasparov on how it all started
- yesenadam 9y agoNot the most informative headline. "He has written many books, but this may be his most important." I firmly doubt it. The story is an ad for a book, Deep Thinking, about computer chess, and in it "Kasparov uses his unrivalled experience to look into the future of intelligent machines" something he appears eminently unqualified to do. Karpov said that Kasparov doesn't love chess, he loves himself in chess. That's a bit harsh; he does appear to love chess a lot. But I know what he means. After a while, Garry's endless self-glorification gets very tiresome. Everyone likes talking of themselves I suppose, but Garry takes that to an impressively noxious level. But, like he himself often says, he was probably the greatest player ever, and those qualities were part of his success.
- noir_lord 9y agoHe was a tremendously strong champion but relative to his compatriots I'd put Lasker ahead of Kasparov. I've always had a soft spot for lasker outside of chess fans he's relatively unknown but his games where far ahead of his time.
- yesenadam 9y agoUm, what do you mean, 'relative to his compatriots'? Lasker, relative to other Prussians/Poles/Germans?... uh... or Kasparov's? No idea what you could mean, sorry. Peers, maybe. Well, he almost lost to Schlechter, never played Rubinstein etc. Champions didn't have to play matches every couple of years like recently, and they could choose who they played! Anyway, I've never heard anyone claim Lasker was the strongest player ever. Although I'm very fond of his games and books too. :-) Well, outside chess fans, anyone pre-Fischer is 'relatively unknown'...totally unknown, even.