Outside of his work as a professional chess player, Kasparov was vocal about his support for democratic and market reforms and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.Īfter retiring from professional chess in 2005, Kasparov devoted his time to the Russian pro-democracy movement. Throughout his chess career, he defended his title five times, broke Bobby Fisher’s rating record, and -perhaps most famously -played against the IBM super-computer Deep Blue. In 1985 at the age of 22, he achieved fame for being the youngest world chess champion. ![]() ![]() At the age of 12 he became the USSR’s under-18 chess champion and at 17, he was the world under-20 champion. Garry Kasparov was born in 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan in the Soviet Union.
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