Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.
Garry KasparovThe loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.
Garry KasparovValues-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.
Garry KasparovIt didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
Garry KasparovOf course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.
Garry Kasparov