

Ivanov to capture the sole qualifying place. He won the 64-player Swiss system tournament at Daugavpils on tiebreak over Igor V. He first qualified for the Soviet Chess Championship at age 15 in 1978, the youngest ever player at that level. He has also said that after the victory, he thought he had a very good shot at the World Championship. "I will remember the Sokolsky Memorial as long as I live", he wrote. Kasparov has repeatedly said that this event was a turning point in his life and that it convinced him to choose chess as his career. He had been invited as an exception but took first place and became a chess master.

In 1978, Kasparov participated in the Sokolsky Memorial tournament in Minsk. He was being trained by Alexander Shakarov during this time. He repeated the feat the following year, winning with a score of 8.5 of 9. Kasparov won the Soviet Junior Championship in Tbilisi in 1976, scoring 7 points of 9, at age 13. Makogonov helped develop Kasparov's positional skills and taught him to play the Caro-Kann Defence and the Tartakower System of the Queen's Gambit Declined. įrom age 7, Kasparov attended the Young Pioneer Palace in Baku and, at 10 began training at Mikhail Botvinnik's chess school under coach Vladimir Makogonov. At the age of twelve, Garry, upon request of his mother Klara and with the consent of the family, adopted Klara's surname Kasparov, which was done to avoid possible antisemitic tensions, which were common in the USSR at the time. When Garry was seven years old, his father died of leukaemia. Kasparov began the serious study of chess after he came across a chess problem set up by his parents and proposed a solution.

Kasparov has described himself as a "self-appointed Christian", although "very indifferent" and identifies as Russian: "although I'm half-Armenian, half-Jewish, I consider myself Russian because Russian is my native tongue, and I grew up with Russian culture." His father, Kim Moiseyevich Weinstein, was Jewish, and his mother, Klara Shagenovna Gasparian, was Armenian. Kasparov was born Garik Kimovich Weinstein (Russian: Гарик Ки́мович Вайнштейн, Garik Kimovich Vainshtein) in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR (now Azerbaijan), Soviet Union.
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Kasparov is also a Security Ambassador for the software company Avast. In 2017, he founded the Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI), an American political organization promoting and defending liberal democracy in the U.S. Kasparov is currently chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and chairs its International Council. In 2014, he obtained Croatian citizenship and has been residing in Podstrana near Split since 2020. Following his flight from Russia, he had lived in New York City with his family. In the wake of the Russian mass protests that began in 2011, he announced in 2013 that he had left Russia for the immediate future out of fear of persecution. In 2008, 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 formed the United Civil Front movement and joined as a member of The Other Russia, a coalition opposing the administration and policies of Vladimir Putin. Since retiring, he has devoted his time to politics and writing.
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Despite losing the title, he continued winning tournaments and was the world's highest-rated player when he retired from professional chess in 2005. He continued to hold the "Classical" World Chess Championship until his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000. In 1997 he became the first world champion to lose a match to a computer under standard time controls when he lost to the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a highly publicized match. He held the official FIDE world title until 1993 when a dispute with FIDE led him to set up a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association. Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22 by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.

Kasparov also holds records for the most consecutive professional tournament victories (15) and Chess Oscars (11). His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. 1 for a record 255 months overall for his career. From 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. Garry Kimovich Kasparov ( Russian: Гарри Кимович Каспаров, Russian pronunciation:, born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, Гарик Кимович Вайнштейн 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist and commentator. From Kasparov's interview for Echo of Moscow, 13 September 2011
