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In Soviet times, the site was home to government dachas for leaders of the Azerbaijan Communist Party and the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.In 1979, then leader of Soviet Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, allowed up-and-coming chess genius Garry Kasparov use of the premises as a place to ensure suitable peace and concentration for his development, a privilege that his great chess opponent ...
Garry Kimovich Kasparov [a] (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein [b] on 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer.
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.
Garry Kasparov. United Civil Front (UCF; Russian: Объединённый гражданский фронт; ОГФ; Obyedinonnyy grazhdanskiy front, OGF) is a social movement in Russia founded and led by chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. In 2006–2007 it was part of The Other Russia, an opposition coalition active in Moscow. [3]
In the fall of 2021, RDI partnered with CNN to create Voices of Freedom, a limited series featuring foreign political dissidents' perspective on American democracy. RDI's founder and Chairman, Garry Kasparov's personal story of transitioning from world chess champion to Russian political figure to American democracy activist is just one example ...
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 ...
The Karpov–Kasparov rivalry was a chess rivalry that existed between grandmasters Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov, who were the 12th and 13th World Chess Champions respectively. The rivalry started in the mid-1980s and culminated in Karpov and Kasparov playing five world championship matches.
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