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Garry Kimovich Kasparov [a] (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein [b] on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, [ 2 ] achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013.
On February 15, 1985, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. For 40 years, the chess ...
Garry Kasparov. United Civil Front (UCF; Russian: Объединённый гражданский фронт; ОГФ; Obyedinonnyy grazhdanskiy front, OGF) is a social movement in Russia founded and led by chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. In 2006–2007 it was part of The Other Russia, an opposition coalition active in Moscow. [3]
A further "Dissenters' March" took place on April 14, 2007 in Moscow. Several people, including Garry Kasparov and former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, were arrested, but released some hours later. Another rally was held on April 15 in Saint Petersburg. Leaders of the Other Russia Andrei Dmitriev and Garry Kasparov on march
Russian expatriate Garry Kasparov, who rose to prominence as a chess champion and famously took on the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in the mid '90s, appeared Tuesday on Anderson Cooper 360 and ...
Russia: Garry Kasparov: 2851 1999-07 1963 Highest-ranked Russian player, formerly world no. 1 (1984–1993, 1995–2006), former world champion (1985–2000), first player to achieve 2800+ rating, formerly highest-ranked player (1990–2012) 3 Italy United States: Fabiano Caruana: 2844 2014-10 1992
Kasparov believes that Putin is no longer listening to voices of wisdom in his immediate entourage and has lost his sense of reality. Garry Kasparov says Putin has a 'sick' view of the world ...
The movement was co-founded by Garry Kasparov, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Garry Kasparov listed three main postulates of the RKD program document: recognition that the attack on Ukraine is a criminal war; that it was unleashed by the illegitimate regime of Vladimir Putin ; and recognition of the territorial integrity of Ukraine ...