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Garry Kimovich Kasparov [a] ... Both of his mother's parents were Armenians from Karabakh. [20] When he was seven years old, his father died of leukaemia. [21]
This includes one of the strongest ever players, Garry Kasparov, who was world No. 1 from 1985 until his retirement in 2005. Kasparov is of Jewish descent, through his father. Bobby Fischer, the highest rated player in history when he became world champion in 1972, had a Jewish mother and likely Jewish father despite antisemitic views.
Petrosian was born to Armenian parents on 17 June 1929, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR ... Kasparov, Garry (2004). My Great Predecessors, Part III. Everyman Chess.
He comfortably improved upon the prior record held by Garry Kasparov (born April 1963) who was 22 when he won the title in Moscow in November 1985 by beating Anatoly Karpov. ... Gukesh's parents ...
Reviewing My Great Predecessors Part I, chess historian Edward Winter said, "The absence of, even, a basic bibliography is shocking in a work which claims to be 'Garry Kasparov's long-awaited definitive history of the World Chess Championship', and a lackadaisical attitude to basic academic standards and historical facts pervades the book."
Dommaraju, 18, is four years younger than the former record-holder, Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he won the title in 1985.
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Russian expatriate Garry Kasparov, who rose to prominence as a chess champion and famously took on the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in the mid '90s, appeared Tuesday on Anderson Cooper 360 and ...