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Garry Kasparov

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Soviet Union in , Garry Kasparov became the under chess champion of the USSR at the age of 12 and the world under champion at He came to international fame at the age of 22 as the youngest world chess champion in history in He defended his title five times, including a legendary series of matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov.

Kasparov broke Bobby Fischer’s rating record in and his own peak rating record remained unbroken until His famous matches against the IBM super-computer Deep Blue in were key to bringing artificial intelligence, and chess, into the mainstream.

Kasparov’s was one of the first prominent Soviets to call for democratic and market reforms and was an early supporter of Boris Yeltsin’s push to break up the Soviet Union.

In , he and his family escaped ethnic violence in his native Baku as the USSR collapsed.

Kimovich weinstein biography wikipedia Kasparov declared that he was a Christian, but had little interest in religion. Garry Kasparov has two children: a daughter named Polina Kasparova from his first marriage and a son named Vadim Kasparov from his third marriage. His first interaction with chess was a written problem which he solved. All Blogs.

In , Kasparov, in his 20^th year as the world’s top-rated player, retired from professional chess to join the vanguard of the Russian pro-democracy movement. In , Kasparov was named chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, succeeding Vaclav Havel. HRF promotes individual liberty worldwide and organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum.

Facing imminent arrest during Putin’s crackdown, Kasparov moved from Moscow to New York City in

The US-based Kasparov Chess Foundation non-profit promotes the teaching of chess in education systems around the world.

Kimovich weinstein biography wife Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in at the age of 22 by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov. Chess lovers hope he never leave us and always be with us. In , Garry Kasparov competed in a grandmaster contest in Yugoslavia and won, this launched him from being unranked by the World Chess Federation to number fifteen in the world. The match had lasted 48 games beating the previous record by 14 games.

Its program already in use in schools across the United States, KCF also has centers in Brussels, Johannesburg, Singapore, and Mexico City. Garry and his wife Daria travel frequently to promote the proven benefits of chess in education and have toured Africa extensively.

Kasparov has been a contributing editor to The Wall Street Journal since and is a regular commentator on politics and human rights.

He speaks frequently to business and political audiences around the world on technology, strategy, politics, and achieving peak mental performance. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford-Martin School with a focus on human-machine collaboration.

Kimovich weinstein biography The two would rematch in with twelve games being played in London and twelve in Leningrad. He has been a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin and founded the United Civil Front as a social movement to try and protect the democratic process. He holds the record for the longest time spent as the No. Garry Kasparov was married three times and has four children.

He’s a member of the executive advisory board of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and a Security Ambassador for Avast Software, where he discusses cyber security and the digital future. Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on strategy and decision-making is available in over 20 languages. He is the author of two acclaimed series of chess books, My Great Predecessors and Modern Chess.

Kasparov’s book, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped is a blend of history, memoire, and current events analysis.

Kasparov’s next book is Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins. (May ) It details his matches against Deep Blue, his years of research and lectures on human and machine competition and collaboration, and his cooperation with the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford.

Kimovich weinstein biography death Children Garry Kasparov has two children: a daughter named Polina Kasparova from his first marriage and a son named Vadim Kasparov from his third marriage. Kasparov stood unsuccessfully for FIDE president in — He formed the United Civil Front movement and was a member of The Other Russia, a coalition opposing the administration and policies of Vladimir Putin. In , he announced an intention to run as a candidate in that year's Russian presidential race, but after encountering logistical problems in his campaign for which he blamed "official obstruction", he withdrew.

He says,

“AI will transform everything we do and we must press forward ambitiously in the one area robots cannot compete with humans: in dreaming big dreams. Our machines will help us achieve them. Instead of worrying about what machines can do, we should worry more about what they still cannot do.”