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Garry Kasparov Biography

Garry Kasparov is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on April 13, 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Soviet chess champion , who was the world’s first champion who lost a game to a computer. This happened after losing to IBM’s Deep Blue in 1997.

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From age 7, Kasparov attended the Young Pioneer Palace in Baku and, at 10 began training at Mikhail Botvinnik’s chess school under noted coach Vladimir Makogonov. 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. Kasparov won the Soviet Junior Championship in Tbilisi in 1976, scoring 7 points of 9, at age 13. He repeated the feat the following year, winning with a score of 8.5 of 9. He was being trained by Alexander Shakarov during this time.

He first qualified for the Soviet Chess Championship at age 15 in 1978, the youngest ever player at that level. He won the 64-player Swiss system tournament at Daugavpils on tiebreak over Igor V. Ivanov to capture the sole qualifying place.

He had a daughter from his previous wife Masha He also had a son and a daughter with his new wife Yulia.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Kasparov rose quickly through the FIDE world rankings. Starting with an oversight by the Russian Chess Federation, he participated in a grandmaster tournament in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then part of Yugoslavia), in 1979 while still unrated (he was a replacement for the Soviet defector Viktor Korchnoi, who was originally invited but withdrew due to the threat of a boycott from the Soviets). Kasparov won this high-class tournament, emerging with a provisional rating of 2595, enough to catapult him to the top group of chess players (at the time, number 15 in the world). The next year, 1980, he won the World Junior Chess Championship in Dortmund, West Germany. Later that year, he made his debut as second reserve for the Soviet Union at the Chess Olympiad at Valletta, Malta, and became a Grandmaster.

Garry Kasparov Net Worth

Garry Kasparov is one of the richest Chess Player from Azerbaijan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Garry Kasparov's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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He was one of the most youthful World Champion of Chess at age 22 in 1985. He was the top rated worldwide chess player for 255 consecutive months.

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров , Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡarʲɪ ˈkʲiməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsparəf] ; born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 225 out of 228 months and 255 months overall for his career. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. Kasparov also holds records for consecutive professional tournament victories (15) and Chess Oscars (11).

Kasparov made his international teams debut for the USSR at age 16 in the 1980 European Team Championship and played for Russia in the 1992 edition of that championship. He won a total of five medals. His detailed Euroteams record, from, follows.

Kasparov holds the record for most consecutive professional tournament victories, placing first or equal first in 15 individual tournaments from 1981 to 1990. The streak was broken by Vasily Ivanchuk at Linares 1991, where Kasparov placed 2nd, half a point behind him after losing their individual game. The details of this record winning streak follow:

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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In 1978, Kasparov participated in the Sokolsky Memorial tournament in Minsk. He had been invited as an exception but took first place and became a chess master. 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. “I will remember the Sokolsky Memorial as long as I live”, he wrote. He has also said that after the victory, he thought he had a very good shot at the World Championship.

As a teenager, Kasparov tied for first place in the USSR Chess Championship in 1981–82. His first win in a superclass-level international tournament was scored at Bugojno, Yugoslavia in 1982. He earned a place in the 1982 Moscow Interzonal tournament, which he won, to qualify for the Candidates Tournament. At age 19, he was the youngest Candidate since Bobby Fischer, who was 15 when he qualified in 1958. At this stage, he was already the No. 2-rated player in the world, trailing only World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov on the January 1983 list.

Who is Garry Kasparov Dating?

According to our records, Garry Kasparov married to Daria Tarasova , Yulia Vovk . As of December 1, 2023, Garry Kasparov’s is not dating anyone.

Kasparov’s grandfather was a staunch communist but Kasparov gradually began to have doubts about the Soviet Union’s political system at age 13 when he traveled abroad for the first time to Paris for a chess tournament. In 1981, at age 18 he read Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, a copy of which he bought while abroad.

Facts & Trivia

Garry Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Azerbaijan. Garry Kasparov celebrates birthday on April 13 of every year.

He has annotated his own games extensively for the Yugoslav Chess Informant series and for other chess publications. In 1982, he co-authored Batsford Chess Openings with British grandmaster Raymond Keene and this book was an enormous seller. It was updated into a second edition in 1989. He also co-authored two opening books with his trainer Alexander Nikitin in the 1980s for British publisher Batsford – on the Classical Variation of the Caro-Kann Defence and on the Scheveningen Variation of the Sicilian Defence. Kasparov has also contributed extensively to the five-volume openings series Encyclopedia of Chess Openings.

Who defeated Garry Kasparov?

On May 11, 1997, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigns after 19 moves in a game against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by scientists at IBM.

Did Garry Kasparov train Magnus Carlsen?

The event took place exactly 25 years after the two players’ legendary encounter at World Chess Championship 1984. Kasparov actively coached Magnus Carlsen for approximately one year, beginning in February 2009.

Is Garry Kasparov the best chess player?

Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player of all time. Born in Baku, Soviet Union (now Azerbaijan) in 1963, he quickly developed at Mikhail Botvinnik’s school, on his way to becoming the youngest champion in chess history in 1985.

Why did Kasparov retire?

Kasparov retired from full-time chess in 2005, planning a career in Russian politics and a challenge to Vladimir Putin which failed badly. His 2014 bid to unseat Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the eccentric head of the global chess body Fide, was also easily defeated.

What is the IQ of Garry Kasparov?

The score of Garry Kasparov’s IQ was 135. Although many sources estimate his IQ to have been between 180-190, he actually scored 135 on an IQ test he did in 1987-88. This was according to a series of tests designed to test his memory, abstract reasoning and spatial ability.

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