Chess has long been a highly intelligent board game that requires strategic and analytical thinking. There were many talented chess players in the world, but the most famous of them was and remains the brilliant Garry Kasparov, who was repeatedly recognized as the world champion and eight-time winner of the World Chess Olympiad.
Kasparov's career
Garry Kasparov, known in the world as the International Grandmaster, has been the Honored Master of the USSR since 1985, and from 1981 to 1988 he was recognized as the World Champion. Garry Kasparov has eight victories at the World Chess Olympiad, four of which he won while playing for the Soviet team. The chess player is the owner of eleven Oscars for the most beautiful playing of the game, as well as the leader of the corresponding rating from 1985 to 2006.
Most experts and professional analysts consider Kasparov the greatest chess player in the entire history of the game of chess.
Harry's record rating (more than the famous Tal) in chess for thirteen and a half years in a row was 2851 points (from 1991 to 2005). The record of a great chess player was then beaten by the Norwegian player Magnus Carlsen, who is one of the youngest grandmasters in the world and the sixteenth world chess champion. Kasparov played for the title of world champion with the legendary Russian chess player Anatoly Karpov for ten long years. During this time, the "heavyweights" of the chess battle had more than five ingenious duels, as a result of which Kasparov nevertheless won the long-awaited victory.
Kasparov today
To the great regret of chess fans and fans of Garry Kasparov, in 2005 the famous chess player announced his retirement and his retirement into politics. To date, Garry Kasparov's political career is quite successful - he has repeatedly participated in various opposition movements and chairs the United Civil Front. In 2008 Kasparov created his own Federal Bureau.
Kasparov has won several times against the very difficult Deep Blue chess program, which only a few great grandmasters have been able to cope with.
Today Garry Kasparov is the leader of the opposition protesting against the existing regime. His chess career has earned him a huge number of victories and the status of one of the best chess strategists in the world. He played with such famous chess players as A. Karpov, A. Belyavsky, V. Korchny, R. Hübner, U. Andersen and so on. Garry Kasparov's qualities, which allowed him to defeat his rivals on the chessboard, help him today to wage political battles and build his own tactics for changing the existing structure in Russia.
