Garry Kasparov

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (, pronounced with stress falling on the second syllable: kas-PA-rov) (born April 13, 1963) is a chess International Grandmaster and one of the strongest chess players in history. As of 2005, his 2812 ELO_rating_system rating places him highest on the F�d�ration Internationale des �checs listing [http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml]. Ranked first in the world for nearly all of the 20 years from 1985 to 2005, Kasparov was the last undisputed World Chess Championship from 1985 until 1993; and continued to be "classical" World Chess Champion (of the Professional Chess Association and World Chess Association) until his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000. Kasparov announced his retirement from professional chess on March 10 2005, instead devoting time to politics and to do "everything in my power to resist Vladimir Putin dictatorship." He is a leading member of the Committee 2008: Free Choice, a group of liberal opposition leaders. Garry Kasparov was born as Gari Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan (at that time republic of Soviet Union) to Armenian-Jewish parentage. He first began the serious study of chess after he came across a chess problem set up by his parents and proposed a solution to it. When he was 7, his father died, and he adopted his mother's surname as soon as was legally possible, at the age of 12. His mother Klara is an Armenian woman whose surname is "Kasparian", and "Kasparov" is the Russianised version of this name. ==Early career== Kasparov trained at Mikhail Botvinnik's chess school. He won the Soviet Junior Championship at Tbilisi in 1976, scoring 7 points out of 9, at the age of 13. He repeated the feat the following year, winning with a score of 8.5/9. In 1978 Kasparov participated in the Sokolsky Memorial tournament at Minsk. He had been invited as an exception but took the 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. Kasparov rose quickly through the FIDE rankings. Starting with an oversight by the Russian Chess Federation, Garry Kasparov participated in a International Grandmaster tournament in Banja Luka while still unrated (the federation thought it was a junior tournament). He emerged from this top-class encounter with a provisional rating of 2595, enough to catapult him into the top group of chess players. The next year, 1980, he won the World Junior Chess Championship in Dortmund, West Germany. Kasparov sought to challenge world champion Anatoly Karpov — a firm favourite of the Russian Chess Federation. But first Kasparov had to pass the test of the Candidates Tournament to qualify. His first Candidates match was against Alexander Beliavsky, from which Kasparov emerged surprisingly victorious (Beliavsky was an exceptionally tough opponent). Politics threatened Kasparov's next match against Viktor Korchnoi, which was scheduled to be played in Pasadena, California. Korchnoi defected from Russia in the late 1970s, and was at that time the strongest non-Soviet player. Various political manoeuvres prevented Kasparov from playing Korchnoi, and he forfeited the match. This was resolved by Korchnoi's allowing the match to be replayed in London. Kasparov won. Kasparov's final Candidates match was against the resurgent Vassily Smyslov (who was randomly selected to advance after a 7-7 tie against Robert Huebner by the spin of a roulette wheel). Smyslov was the seventh world champion in 1957, but later years saw his willingness to fight for wins greatly diminished. Kasparov won. ==1984 World Championship== [[Image:Karkas1.jpg|thumb|right|The 1984 World Chess Championship was between Anatoly Karpov (right) and Garry Kasparov (left).]] The 1984 World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov had its fair share of ups and downs, as well as the most controversial finish to a competitive match ever. Karpov started off in very good form, and within a dozen games Kasparov found himself 4-0 down in a "first to six wins" match. Fellow players predicted a 6-0 whitewash of Kasparov within 18 games. For Karpov, the result so far would go some way toward exorcising the ghost of Bobby Fischer's Candidates results in 1970, and would further cement Karpov as a true World Champion. Kasparov dug in, with inspiration from a Russian poet before each game, and battled with Karpov into seventeen successive draws. Karpov duly won the next decisive game before Kasparov fought back with another series of draws until game 32, Kasparov's first win against the World Champion. At this point Karpov, twelve years older than Kasparov, was close to exhaustion, and not looking like the player who started this match. A few games later Kasparov won another two games to bring the scores to 5-3 in Karpov's favour. Then the match was ended without result by Florencio Campomanes, the President of FIDE, and a new match was announced to start a few months later. The termination of the match was a matter of some controversy. At the press conference at which he announced his decision, Campomanes cited the health of the two players, which had been put under strain by the length of the match, despite that both Karpov and Kasparov stated that they would prefer the match to continue. Karpov had lost 10kg (22lb) over the course of the match and had been hospitalized several times. Kasparov, however, was in excellent health and extremely resentful of Campomanes' decision, asking him why he was abandoning the match if both players wanted to continue. It would appear that Kasparov, who had won the last two games before the suspension, felt the same way as some commentators — that he was now the favourite to win the match despite his 5-3 deficit. He appeared to be physically stronger than his opponent, and in the later games seemed to have been playing the better chess. As National Master Dan Heisman of Philadelphia humorously commented on this confusing situation: "Kasparov was losing the match to Karpov 5-3 but found it stopped by FIDE, Kasparov said he was winning because Karpov was only ahead 5-3. Karpov, from his hospital bed, protested that he felt fine and wanted to continue, but the doctors were not letting him." The match became the first, and so far only, world championship match to be abandoned without result. Kasparov's relations with Campomanes and FIDE were greatly strained, and the feud between the two would eventually come to a head in 1993 with Kasparov's complete break-away from FIDE. ==World Champion== The second Karpov-Kasparov match in 1985 was organized as the best of 24 games, where first player to 12.5 points would claim the title (in the event of a 12-12 draw, the title would go to Karpov as the reigning champion). Kasparov showed he had learned some valuable lessons in the previous match, and although the score was quite even down to the final wire, a few spectacular games involving the Sicilian defence secured the World Championship for Kasparov at the tender age of 22 by a score of 13-11. This broke the existing record of youngest winner held for over twenty years by Mikhail Tal (he was 23 when he beat Botvinnik in 1960). Kasparov cemented his authority at the top of the international rating ladder with a series of fine tournament performances as well as defending his title three times against his arch-opponent Karpov. With the World Champion title in his grasp, Kasparov switched to battling against FIDE — as Bobby Fischer had done twenty years earlier, but this time from within FIDE. He created an organisation to represent chess players, the GrandMaster's Association (GMA) to give players more of a say in FIDE's activities. ==Ejection from FIDE== This stand-off lasted until 1993, by which time a new challenger had qualified through the Candidates cycle for Kasparov's next World Championship defense. The world champion and his challenger (Nigel Short) decided to play their match outside of FIDE's jurisdiction, under another organisation created by Garry Kasparov called the Professional Chess Association (PCA). This is where the great fracture on the lineage of World Champions began. Kasparov and Short were ejected from FIDE, and they played their well-sponsored match in London, which Kasparov won convincingly. FIDE organized a World Championship match between the loser of the Candidates final, Jan Timman, and previous World Champion Karpov, which Karpov won. (It should be noted that Nigel Short beat both of these players in the Candidates matches before facing Kasparov.) So Kasparov held the PCA World Chess Championship, and Karpov held the FIDE World Chess Championship. Kasparov defended his title in 1995 against the Indian superstar Viswanathan Anand, before the PCA collapsed when Intel, one of the major backers, withdrew its sponsorship. Kasparov tried to organise another World Championship match, under yet another organisation, the World Chess Association (WCA) with Linares chess tournament organiser Rentero. Alexei Shirov and Vladimir Kramnik played a candidates match to decide the challenger, which Shirov won in a surprising upset. The WCA collapsed, however, when Rentero admitted that the funds required and promised had never materialised. This left Kasparov stranded, and yet another organisation stepped in — BrainGames.com, headed by Raymond Keene (who was also involved in bringing Kasparov to London for his replayed Candidates match against Korchnoi, half of the first Kasparov-Karpov match, and the Kasparov-Short PCA match). No match against Shirov was arranged, and talks with Anand collapsed, so a match was instead arranged against Kramnik. This match, Kasparov-Kramnik, took place in London during the latter half of 2000. A well prepared Kramnik surprised Kasparov and won a crucial game 2 against Kasparov's supposedly invincible Gr�nfeld Defence. As white, Kasparov could not crack the solid but passive Berlin Defense in the Ruy Lopez, and Kramnik successfully drew all his games as black. Kramnik emerged victorious, and for the first time in sixteen years Kasparov had no world championship title. Kasparov proved in 2001 that he was still the among the strongest tournament players in the world with his fine performance in the Corus chess tournament at Wijk aan Zee. As part of the so-called "Prague Agreement", masterminded by Yasser Seirawan and intended to reunite the two World Championships, Kasparov was to play a match against the FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov in September 2003. However, this match was called off after Ponomariov refused to sign his contract for it without reservation. In its place, there were plans for a match against Rustam Kasimdzhanov, winner of the FIDE World Chess Championship, 2004, to be held in January 2005 in the United Arab Emirates. These also fell through due to lack of funding. Plans to hold the match in Turkey instead also came to nothing. == Retirement == After winning the prestigious Linares chess tournament for the ninth time, Kasparov announced on March 10, 2005, that he would be retiring from serious competitive chess. He cited as the reason a lack of personal goals in the chess world (he commented when winning the Russian championship in 2004 that it had been the last major title he had never won outright) and expressed frustration at the failure to reunify the world championship. Kasparov said he may play in some rapid events for fun, but intends to spend more time on his books (both the ''My Great Predecessors'' series (see #books) and a book on the links between decision-making in chess and other areas of life), and will continue to involve himself in Politics of Russia, which he says is "headed down the wrong path." He is an outspoken critic of President of Russia Vladimir Putin. [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050417/D89GSCJG0.html] On April 10, 2005, Kasparov was in Moscow at a promotional event when he was struck over the head with a chessboard he had just signed. The assailant was reported to have said "I admired you as a chess player, but you gave that up for politics," immediately before the attack. ==Sample game== Corus_Chess_Tournament_game_between_Kasparov_and_Veselin_Topalov,_Kasparov_(white)_appears_to_be_in_a_weaker_position,_but_a_stunning_rook_sacrifice_followed_by_precise_endgame_play_secures_Kasparov_a_victory.">Image:Kasparov-topalov.jpg|thumb|200px| In this position after move 23 in the 1999 Corus Chess Tournament game between Kasparov and Veselin Topalov, Kasparov (white) appears to be in a weaker position, but a stunning rook sacrifice followed by precise endgame play secures Kasparov a victory. The game Kasparov-Veselin Topalov, played at the Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 1999, features one of his best Combination (chess) (moves given in Algebraic chess notation): 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 Bg7 5.Qd2 c6 6.f3 b5 7.Nge2 Nbd7 8.Bh6 Bxh6 9.Qxh6 Bb7 10.a3 e5 11.0-0-0 Qe7 12.Kb1 a6 13.Nc1 0-0-0 14.Nb3 exd4 15.Rxd4 c5 16.Rd1 Nb6 17.g3 Kb8 18.Na5 Ba8 19.Bh3 d5 20.Qf4+ Ka7 21.Rhe1 d4 22.Nd5 Nbxd5 23.exd5 Qd6 (see diagram at right for current position) 24.Rxd4!! cxd4 25.Re7+! Kb6 [25...Qxe7 26.Qxd4+ Kb8 27.Qb6+ Bb7 28.Nc6+ Ka8 29.Qa7#] 26.Qxd4+ Kxa5 27.b4+ Ka4 28.Qc3 Qxd5 29.Ra7 Bb7 30.Rxb7 Qc4 31.Qxf6 Kxa3 32.Qxa6+ Kxb4 33.c3+! Kxc3 34.Qa1+ Kd2 35.Qb2+ Kd1 36.Bf1! Rd2 37.Rd7! Rxd7 38.Bxc4 bxc4 39.Qxh8 Rd3 40.Qa8 c3 41.Qa4+ Ke1 42.f4 f5 43.Kc1 Rd2 44.Qa7 1-0 When announcing his retirement, Kasparov commented that this was possibly the best of all his games. ==Books== Kasparov has written a number of books on chess. In 2003, the first volume of his projected five volume work ''Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors'' was published. This volume, which deals with the world chess champions Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, Jos� Ra�l Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, and some of their strong contemporaries, has received lavish praise from some reviewers (including Nigel Short), while attracting criticism from others for historical inaccuracies and analysis of games directly copied from unattributed sources. Despite this, the first volume won the British Chess Federation's Book of the Year award in 2003. Volume two, covering Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vassily Smyslov and Mikhail Tal appeared later in 2003. Volume three, covering Tigran Petrosian and Boris Spassky appeared in early 2004. In December 2004, Kasparov released volume four, which covers Samuel Reshevsky, Miguel Najdorf, and Bent Larsen, but focuses primarily on Bobby Fischer. ==Chess against computers== In February 1996, International Business Machines's chess computer Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in one game using normal time controls, in Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1. However, Kasparov retorted with 3 wins and 2 draws, soundly winning the match. In May 1997, an updated version of Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in a highly publicised six-game match. This was the first time a computer had ever defeated a world champion in match play. IBM keeps a web site of the event at http://www.chess.ibm.com/ Kasparov has been credited with the invention of Advanced Chess in 1998, as a new form of chess in which a human and a computer join their forces. In November 2003, he engaged in a four game match against chess playing computer program X3D Fritz (which was said to have an estimated rating of 2807), using a virtual board, 3D glasses and a speech recognition system. After two draws and two wins respectively, the X3D Man-Machine World Chess Championship match ended in draw. Kasparov received $175,000 for the result and took home the golden trophy. Kasparov continued to criticize the blunder in the second game that cost him a crucial point. He felt that he had outplayed the machine overall and played well. "I only made one mistake but unfortunately that one mistake lost the game." ==See also== * Kasparov versus The World ==External links== *[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=15940 Kasparov's games at chessgames.com] *[http://www.wtharvey.com/kasp.html 80 crucial positions from his games] *[http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/85kk$$.htm The World Championship of 1985] *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4163439.stm Kasparov's political opinion] *More about Kasparov's retirement from [http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/r15.html ''The Week in Chess''] and [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2258 Chessbase] *Kasparov is also a contributing editor of ''The Wall Street Journal'': :*[http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006444 The Great Game], on retiring to focus on Russian politics, March 19, 2005 :*[http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005371 Fischer's Price], on Bobby Fischer, July 19, 2004 :*[http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005100 Stop the Moral Equivalence], on terrorism, May 19, 2004 :*[http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004820 Putinocracy], on Putin's regime, March 14, 2004 :*[http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003081 Man vs. Machine], on computer chess, February 16, 2003 :*[http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002087 The War Is Not Yet Won], on war in the Middle East, August 5, 2002 1963 births Chess grandmasters Jewish chess players Armenian chess players Azerbaijani chess players bs:Garry Kasparov hi:गैरी कास्परोव

Garry Kasparov

---- A couple of questions: Where does he live nowadays? In what language is he writing his books? Where can I find more articles by him? ---- ''He first started learning to play chess after studying a chess problem set up by his parents, and proposed a solution to it.'' I don't understand. How can you start learning to play chess after solving a chess problem? The rules of chess are not intuitive. No idea, but he studied this chess board for quite some time and then offered a possible solution to his parents, who seemed a little surprised too. They then decided to teach him to play chess. Does sound strange, but its been mentioned in quite a number of books and magazines I've read over the years. Also there's quite a distinction between learning the moves of chess, and learning how to play chess well. The first can take a month, the latter a lifetime and not succeed. I'm referring to Garry learning to play chess in regards to making a living with it, not learning the basic moves - apologies. :I made a revision to the line in question. Hopefully, it should be clearer. User:Fvincent 19:28, Dec 3, 2003 (UTC) ---- His first name is Gari or Gary ??? Neither. Since he's Russian so it would be in Cyrillic (Don't even ask me about the spelling combinations of Korchnoi, Ivanchuk and Nimzowitsch I've seen - its all because the names are non-English, and created in "other" letters :-) ). A rough translation would be Garri, but commonly in English print he's referred to as Garry (two R's in both cases). *He changed it from the original Gari to Garry because 13 is his lucky number; born on the 13th, 13th champ, "Garry Kasparov"=13 letters. ----------------- What would Gary Kasparov do when his in midgame with his wife during a picnic and the rain starts tumbling down? She's about to defend a check mate move - does he stay and get wet for the kill or does he call it a draw (effecting the win/loss ration). It's tough, I'll give you that. ---- I'd like to see some discussion of politics. I remember his playing under the Russian flag in perestroika time in spite of being born in Azerbaijan. It seems interesting. -- User:Error 02:43 May 7, 2003 (UTC) :Well, during the time of perestroika he played for the USSR, of course (and Azerbaijan was part of the USSR), but since then he's played for Russia, yes. I don't think it's particularly significant politically - it's just that he's lived in Russia for most of his life, hasn't he? There's something that could be said about politics here, though - Kasparov's been heavily involved in the politics of chess, and I think he had some involvement in Russian politics following the collapse of the USSR. --User:Camembert ::Probably I remembered something like http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/90kk$$.htm :

Both players should have displayed the flag of the Soviet Union, but Kasparov chose to use the new tricolor Russian flag to show support for Boris Yeltsin. Karpov protested on the grounds that FIDE rules dictated that "miniature flags of the nations to which the players belong are to be placed on the table". Appeals jury Lim Kok An and Bessel Kok decided that there would be no flags.

And was he ethnically Russian, Armenian or Jew? -- User:Error 03:34 May 7, 2003 (UTC) :::Answering myself http://pkchess.bizland.com/chesspress/chesspress6/cpress6_4.html : ::::Can we forget that he was the first who fought successfully even in the Soviet times to ban the monopoly of the Soviet government on the earnings of Soviet sportsmen and chess players? Or that he was the first to play under the Russian flag against Karpov in New York in 1990 when the communists were still in power in the Soviet Union? Can we forget his help to the Chernobyl victims or the Armenian refugees during the pogroms in Baku in January 1991? :::And http://www.twoplustwo.com/digests/excharch_dec00_msg.html ::::Quiz #1: Kasparov's parents are Jewish and Armenian, he was born in Azerbaijan, and he chooses(in the past, at least) to play under the Russian flag. 'What' is he? :::-- User:Error ::::Ah yes, I see what you mean - I forgot about the 1990 business. He's certainly been very politically involved - you're right, it'd be interesting to see something about that side of him here (I'm not the person to write it though, I fear). --User:Camembert Garri Kasparov is a rat. I clearly remember in the old communist days of the Soviet Union how he was a 'proud' member of the communist party and how he pretended to be dedicated to the party. When things started to change, he adjusted accordingly, and when the game was over (no pun intended) he started to bad mouth the old system. His chess politics have been even more hypocritical and dirty. It should be noted also that he is the only grandmaster known so far, to have cheated in an official chess game and caught on camera. In Linares 1994 tournament, he was playing black again J. Polgar ... he moved his knight to a square that would have been a losing move for him, he let go of the piece, then he grabbed the knight again and put it on another square. After the game it was shown that his cheating was cpatured on a camera. This is Garri Kasparov in a nutshell. Also, his main strength in chess is his home preparation and database-like memorized openings, as clearly evident from most of his games. :Yeah, well, most Communists stopped actually believing in the Party after about 1970-1980, but simply said they believe in it: a. to stay alive and b. to avoid censure by the government. Tom Clancy novels describe that well. User:Ugen64 02:06, Dec 4, 2003 (UTC) ::'J'adoube.' :You're entitled to your opinion of course, but I don't see how anybody can seriously believe that in light of Kasparov-Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999. --User:Camembert ---- Where does this estimated X3D Fritz rating (2807) come from? --User:Camembert :Answering my own question: it's quoted as 2807 on [http://www.x3dchess.com/about.htm X3D's site]. I'd like to know how they came up with the number, but I'll guess we never will. --User:Camembert ::I am not sure where the rating of that particular chess program/machine comes from, but I can tell you something about this subject. I used to be an active tournamet chess player. Many official tournaments allow computer chess programs to participate just like a regular human player. Usually the programmers who write chess programs like to take their programs to tournaments for obvious reasons. Therefore, in the case of such programs, their rating is based on their performance in chess tournaments just like any regular player. :::Yes, I know that, but this particular version of Fritz was, as I understand it, tweaked compared to other versions specifically for Kasparov, and had not played (publically) against any rated player before this match. I suppose they based the rating on the performance of other versions of Fritz. My curiousity was aroused, really, by the unusually precise nature of the estimate - normally, when people guess at the rating of programs, they'll say "oh, it's about 2750" or "around 2600" - some nice round number like that. 2807 seemed spookily precise to just be guessing at it. Still, we've got the source for the estimate now, so I'm happy. --User:Camembert ---- This page was listed on Wikipedia:Brilliant prose candidates. At User:Eloquence's suggestion I added some headings. However I don't mind if the content writers of this article don't like it and want to revert to the plainer version. User:Pcb21 User_talk:Pcb21 13:25, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC) :I like it. I was going to do something similar myself, but was too lazy :) --User:Camembert ---- human's days are numbered. Xah User:P0lyglut 04:56, 2003 Dec 13 (UTC) ---- Here: ''...as well as defending his title three times against his arch-opponent Karpov.''
Anatoly Karpov: ''...fighting Kasparov in over five arduous World Championship matches...''
Seems inconsistent to me. -- User:Jao 17:21, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC) :It may seem so, but it is not. The first match was played in 1984 - Karpov was champion and Kasparov was challenger - the match was abandoned without result. The second match, still with Karpov as champion, was the following year - Kasparov won. The two subsequently played three more matches (in 1986, 1987 and 1990) in which Kasparov was defending his title. Therefore, five matches played, three of them with Kasparov defending his title. (Unless you mean the fault is with the tautological "in over", which gives the midleading impression there were more than five matches) --User:Camembert ::The context at Anatoly Karpov with "remained" seemed to exclude the 1984 and 1985 matches, though. (And yes, "over" has to mean "more than", but that's not what I thought of.) But the new wording is very clear, thanks for that. -- User:Jao 21:04, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC) I feel it should be mentioned how he puts his watch on the table and when he is confident he will win, he puts it back on his arm. This is just something I heard today. Maybe someone who knows more of these little things that are to him in his way of acting during matches or general personality - like in Bobby Fischer - could add to this and write it somewhere in there? --User:Lenton 15:55, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC) :Yeah, it's an interesting little habit, that, probably worth mentioning at some point (not sure how we'd work it into the article though). I remember as a kid when I saw his watch-related antics, I began to imitate him in my own games (to my disappointment, it didn't make me a better player). I don't know if it's really that he puts his watch back on when he's confident of winning, however, so much as when he thinks the game is basically over, win, lose or draw. Maybe I'm wrong about that. --User:Camembert ---- No discussion of his rivalry with Karpov? I had inserted it into the Karpov page, perhaps we should do so here?--User:Etaonish 14:48, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC) ==Historical revisionism and Kasparov== On the Historical revisionism page, it states, ''Finally the term "historical revisionism", or simply "revisionism" is used sometimes to refer to specific revisionist theories associated with the famous chess player Garry Kasparov, which believe that the events of what are known as the last 3,000 years occurred in either a much shorter or a much longer time frame, and attempts to explain how. '' Does anybody know what they are talking about? If Kasparov is involved, why is nothing said about this on this page? User:ChessPlayer 12:46, 9 May 2004 (UTC) :I've never heard of it before. It sounds like the sort of belief that ''somebody'' might hold, but I've never heard of Kasparov holding it. I'm going to remove that paragraph to talk:historical revisionism. --User:Camembert I have once heard some wacko theory that the middle ages was something like 400 years shorter than we think it was, however, I do not remember where I read it. User:Danny 17:01, 9 May 2004 (UTC) :Turns out I was wrong. In case anybody is interested, see Talk:Historical revisionism for the end of this (slightly bizarre) story - Danny found an article by Kasparov showing he does indeed believe this stuff. :We could put a mention of this in this article, I suppose. We probably also ought to mention his involvement with Russian politics (wasn't he on the team of that Presidential candidate who got kidnapped in the elections this year (or was it last year? I forget)). I'll probably do it myself eventually if nobody else does, but I'd need to look some stuff up. --User:Camembert ::FWIW: "About five years ago, I came across several books written by two mathematicians from Moscow State University: academician A.T. Fomenko and G.V. Nosovskij. The books described the work of a group of professional mathematicians, led by Fomenko, who had considered the issues of ancient and medieval chronology for more than 20 years with fascinating results. Using modern mathematical and statistical methods, as well as precise astronomical computations, they discovered that ancient history was artificially extended by more than 1 000 years. For reasons beyond my understanding, historians are still ignoring their work." [http://www.world-mysteries.com/garrykasparov.htm] See New Chronology (Fomenko) — the theory Kasparov supports. — User:Monedula 07:23, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Link merit? == The link at the bottom of the page to Kasparov's editorial on terrorism seems to have little to do with his chess career or life. Is this really necessary? I'd be interested in hearing the view of others. -SocratesJedi (not logged in -__-) :Sure, why not? Though it doesn't have to do with chess, if one reads it, they may gain a better understanding of the man. User:Frecklefoot— User:Frecklefoot | User talk:Frecklefoot 15:34, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC) ---- ==King pawn opening== The article Kasparov versus The World mentions Kasparov's "normal king pawn opening." This article doesn't mention it at all. Can someone add it and explain it? User:Frecklefoot— User:Frecklefoot | User talk:Frecklefoot 15:34, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC) It doesn't mean anything, I think you may have misunderstood it. Kasparov likes playing e4, or the king pawn opening. That's really all it is. --Etaonish">User:Etaonish 15:51, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC) == 2004 update of stale sentence == As of 2004, Kasparov will play this match with the current FIDE World Champion, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, although whether these plans will come to fruition remains to be seen. In the meantime, Kasparov continues to play in tournaments, with good results on the whole. This sentence was from the article. It imply a continuous state, but since 2004 is over, i tacked it here. I can't tell whether the game was played, so i couldn't update the sentence. * "But their match in Dubai, a prelude to a match with world champion Vladimir Kramnik, was cancelled by the governing body of chess, Fide, after financial guarantees by the promoters failed to be offered. Kasparov is not pleased". [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4163439.stm] It seems they never played the game in question. --User:Wk muriithi Well, the situation is still somewhat in flux: Dubai is definitely off, but there has been talk of the match being held in Turkey instead (frankly, I think the chances of it taking place are tiny, but that's another story). I'll update the article a bit. --User:Camembert ==Photo== Does anyone else think the photo of him at the top of the page is hugely unflattering? While it does embody his focus, it seems to me that we could find a better photo. --Ronincyberpunk I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that the reason that particular photo was included was because we felt pretty sure it was OK from a legal perspective; if I remember rightly, it is a frame from a web broadcast of Wijk aan Zee 2001, and people felt that just as the use of a single frame of a movie would count as fair use in the right context, so this would also count as fair use. That's not to say that we couldn't get away with using other photos as fair use (I really don't know if we could or not), but I think that's the reason we're using this particular one at the moment: it's considered pretty safe. --User:Camembert == 2 links to his games == Tell me why it's necessary to have both chesshere.com and chessgames.com that both have details about the games he's played. chesshere.com appears to be less sophisticated in the presentation. Based on that, I see no reason to keep chesshere.com (it's not even a direct link to his games), so borderlines on advertisement. User:Cburnett 23:31, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC) :From my talk page: ::because the site has a lot of Kasparov's games in it's database, i think that is related to the article :Which is an insufficient reason to keep a weaker link when chessgames.com has the database in a superior form (much better presentation). Wikipedia isn't a links directory and I see no reason to have a duplicate link of inferior presented data. User:Cburnett 23:55, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::I quite agree: there's no need to link to every single web source of Kaspy's games. If the information is the same (and in this case it is), there's only need to give one source (and I think it's pretty clear that chessgames.com is a better source than chesshere.com in this case). --User:Camembert == Phrasing of Intro == Surely it would be clearer to phrase "last undisputed champion and classical champion"? Also adding mention of losses User:Pmanderson 18:38, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC) ---- Kasparov is described as "''possibly the strongest human chess player in the world''" - Surely a computer cannot be described as a player anymore than Wikipedia can be described as an intellectual. Remove the word "human". User:Atolmazel 04:56, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) === Protection? === Featured articles sometimes should be protected, as prominent targets for vandalism. Are all the vandals being blocked? Should this page be protected?-User:Stevertigo|User_talk:Stevertigo|[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Stevertigo&action=history th] 21:40, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Deep Blue debate? == I remember Kasparov having issues with the way the second match against Deep Blue ended. I think he wanted to play Deep Blue again, and IBM left, saying Deep Blue had won, and that was that. Anyone want to add details on this? User:Venice 15:25, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) :I think it's important to remember that the entire match, including the winnings, were paid for by IBM. Kasparov lost, but he walked home with $400,000 of IBM's money, so he didn't do too badly. Yes, he wanted a rematch. Who wouldn't? With the possibility of taking another $400K (or maybe $700K for a win)? I don't know if anyone else offered to sponsor the match, but IBM declined. Look, it's not really a chess match. It's a publicity stunt. Does anyone doubt that an unbeatable chess machine is possible? User:Shoaler 14:13, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC) :My hunch is that Kasparov would have had excellent chances in a re-match, because he could have learned more than Deep Blue in the interim. But what incentive did IBM have for a re-match? They were in it for the publicity, and Deep Blue winning again couldn't have possibly given them as much publicity as the first victory, whereas losing would have nullified much of their positive press. Furthermore, Kasparov was such a poor sport, essentially accusing IBM of cheating after one of his losses, I wouldn't be surprised if that factored into IBM's decision to refuse a rematch. --User:Fritzlein 15:42, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC) == povness == Please people, using expressions like "demolishing the field" is opinionated and completely unencyclopedic. State only the facts, and don't interpret their importance or value. Leave that to the reader. == Request for references == Hi, I am working to encourage implementation of the goals of the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy. Part of that is to make sure articles Wikipedia:Cite sources. This is particularly important for featured articles, since they are a prominent part of Wikipedia. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check has more information. Thank you, and please [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Taxman&action=edit§ion=new leave me a message] when a few references have been added to the article. - User:Taxman 18:57, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC) ---- Why dosen't it mention about his match against the internet? http://classic.zone.msn.com/kasparov/PressRel.asp :We actually have an entire article devoted to that game: Kasparov versus The World. But you're right, it should be mentioned in this article too (with a link to that one). I hope someone will do it; I'm feeling rather lazy at the moment... --User:Camembert 15:26, 9 May 2005 (UTC) == "Greatest player ever"? == Even the qualified "arguably the greatest player ever" or "arguably the strongest player ever" seems POV and highly controversial to me. Saying he is the greatest player ever is just subjective, depending on what you mean by "greatest" or how we decide who the "greatest" player is. It would be better to leave this up to the reader in my opinion. Saying "strongest player ever" is a bit better, but still controversial, given the fact that he was not world champion when he retired, and at least three other chessplayers were very close if not equal to him in terms of skill (Vishwanathan Anand, Peter Leko, Veselin Topalov, and of course Vladimir Kramnik). Would it be better to say he is "one of the strongest chessplayers ever"? This would seem more accurate, less controversial, and less in need of qualification. --User:Malathion 05:28, 13 May 2005 (UTC) == Vandalism == How can we get this article protected? I'm not familiar with the procedure here. --User:Malathion 19:47, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) :You could put a request on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection (a request on this talk page may also get a response). I don't think it needs protecting any more though - the vandalism seems to have stoppped - so I'll leave it be for now. --User:Camembert 20:04, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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