Garry Kasparov
Russian chess grandmaster and activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Garry Kasparov (born 13 April 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan) is a Russian chess grandmaster and political activist. He was born with the name Garry Weinstein, and is partly of Jewish descent.[2] He was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000. In 1993 he broke away from FIDE to make a rival organisation (the PCA), because he felt FIDE had failed to raise enough money for world title matches. There is controversy about that period. By any measure, he is one of the greatest chess players of all time. He was the highest-rated player even after his retirement until Magnus Carlsen took him over.[3][4]
Gary Kasparov (Гарри Кимович Каспаров) | |
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Country | USSR Russia Croatia (since 2014) [1] |
Title | Grandmaster |
World Champion | 1985–1993 (undisputed) 1993–2000 (Classical) |
FIDE rating | 2812 |
Peak rating | 2851 (July 1999) |
Kasparov became the youngest non-disputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at the age of 22.[5] He held the official FIDE world title until 1993, when an argument with FIDE led him to set up a rival company, the Professional Chess Association. He continued to hold the "Classical" World Chess Championship until his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000. Kasparov lost a match (a series of chess games) against Deep Blue, a computer made by IBM, in 1997. Lately, retired from competition, he has been coaching Magnus Carlsen, the young player from Norway who is the current world #1.