![]() ![]() This article was most recently revised and updated by John P. Kasparov also served as a contributing editor for The Wall Street Journal from 1991. He continued to be an outspoken critic of Putin, and in 2015 he published Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped. In 2007, following several protest marches organized by the coalition in which Kasparov and other participants were arrested, the Other Russia chose Kasparov as its candidate for the 2008 presidential election but was unable to nominate him by the deadline. In 2006 Kasparov was one of the prime movers behind a broad coalition of political parties that formed the Other Russia, a group held together by only one goal: ousting Putin from power. Kasparov also remained in the public eye with his decision in 2005 to start a political organization, the United Civil Front, to oppose Russian Pres. ![]() Garry Kasparov (left) playing against Goh Wei Ming, 2010. In 1995 he successfully defended his PCA title against Viswanathan Anand of India the PCA disbanded in 1996. In response, FIDE stripped the title of world champion from Kasparov, who defeated Short that same year to become the PCA world champion. In 1993 Kasparov and the English grandmaster Nigel Short left FIDE and formed a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association (PCA). In the two players’ rematch in 1985, Kasparov narrowly defeated Karpov in a 24-game series and thereby became the youngest official champion in the history of the game. With Kasparov finally having won three games from the exhausted Karpov, FIDE halted the series after 48 games, a decision protested by Kasparov. Kasparov lost four out of the first nine games but then adopted a careful defensive stance, taking an extraordinarily long series of drawn games with the champion. Kasparov first challenged the reigning world champion Anatoly Karpov in a 1984–85 match, after he survived the Fédération Internationale des Échecs ( FIDE the international chess federation) series of elimination matches. From 1973 to 1978 he studied under former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik. Kasparov became an international grandmaster in 1980. He began playing chess at age 6, by age 13 was the Soviet youth champion, and won his first international tournament at age 16 in 1979. ![]() ![]() Kasparov was born to a Jewish father and an Armenian mother. Kasparov was the youngest world chess champion (at 22 years of age) and the first world chess champion to be defeated by a supercomputer in a competitive match. ), Soviet-born chess master who became the world chess champion in 1985. Garry Kasparov, in full Garri Kimovich Kasparov, original name Garri Weinstein or Harry Weinstein, (born April 13, 1963, Baku, Azerbaijan, U.S.S.R. In an essay that Garry Kasparov wrote in 2018 for the Encyclopædia Britannica Anniversary Edition: 250 Years of Excellence, he expressed less concern about dystopian visions of artificial intelligence than about political polarization and the rise of authoritarianism around the world: “The political center is being hollowed out, with extremist positions leading to backlash and whiplash.”
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