Garry Kasparov

World's greatest chess player

Garry Kasparov is the world’s most famous chess player of all time. In 2005, after 20 years of being at the top, he stopped participating in contests. Nowadays he speaks all over the world about a wide range of topics. He is the author of ‘My great predecessors’ and ‘How life imitates chess’ and has written several articles in The Wall Street Journal. Kasparov is still in the public limelight though. He can be seen in commercials where he passionately tries to integrate chess in all kind

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Languages:: English, Russian
Categories:: Government & Politics

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About Garry Kasparov

Kasparov is still in the public limelight though. He can be seen in commercials where he passionately tries to integrate chess in all kind of educational systems. He has his own foundation, the Kasparov Chess Foundation, which is located in the United States.

His career is impressive. In 1979, when he was 16 years old, he won of 14 Grand Masters in Banja Luka. One year later he became world champion in the junior division and in 1981 he became USSR champion. Through all the years from 1985 to 2006 onward he was listed as the world’s number one chess player for the entire globe.