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Garry Kasparov: evaluation

10 May 2017 Conversations with Tyler Garry Kasparov on AI, Chess, and the Future of Creativity

“Dostoyevsky, underrated because it’s all about human nature. That doesn’t matter, whether you live in Russia in the third quarter of the 19th century or the first quarter of the 21st century, the human emotions, the human temptations, the human reactions — they are still very much the same.”

— Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
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evaluation
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10 May 2017
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Outdated like the King’s Gambit? Dostoyevsky, underrated because it’s all about human nature. That doesn’t matter, whether you live in Russia in the third quarter of the 19th century or the first quarter of the 21st century, the human emotions, the human temptations, the human reactions — they are still very much the same. Back to chess. We both know Ken Rogoff, highly successful as an economist and a very good chess player. If we take most top chess players at the very top, and somehow they could not have played chess — in other endeavors, how successful do you think they would have been?…

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