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Garry Kasparov - Biography

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Garry Kimovich Kasparov

Birth Date: April 13, 1963 Birth Place: Baku, Azerbaijan Residence: Moscow, Russia Mother: Klara Shagenovna Kasparova Father: Kim Moiseyevich Weinstein Interests: History, Politics, Literature, Computers

Chess Highlights Highlight Started Playing Soviet Junior Champion: World Junior Champion: International Grandmaster: Joint 1st USSR Champion: World Champion Finalist: World Champion: World's #1 Rated Player: 1st Player ever to top 2800 rating: Only player ever to reach 2851 rating Won Linares & announced retirement From competitive chess Kasparov's World Title Matches Year 1984 Place Moscow Opponent vs. Karpov Result match abandoned Year 1968 1976-77 1980 1980 1981 1984 1985 2000 1984 2006 1990 1999 2005 Age 5 12-13 17 17 18 21 22-35 21-42 26 37 41 15 21-22 Duration

1985 1986 1987 1990 1993 1995 2000

Moscow London/Leningrad Sevilla New York/Lyon London New York London

vs. Karpov vs. Karpov vs. Karpov vs. Karpov vs. Short vs. Anand vs. Kramnik

Kasparov wins title Kasparov retains title Kasparov retains title Kasparov retains title Kasparov retains title Kasparov retains title Kasparov loses title

Championship Defenses

Kasparov vs. Karpov, Moscow, 1985. Kasparov and Karpov battled each other five times in seven years for the world championship title. (Compare this to Kramnik who beat Kasparov in 2000 and then took four years before he played Leko, a hand-picked opponent for the title - ironically at the time Kramnik was ranked #3 in the world and Leko #6.) The 1984 the world championship match which was in progress was called off by the FIDE President Florencio Campomanes. In 1985 Kasparov beat Karpov to become the youngest player ever to win the World Chess Championship.Kasparov (the champion) and Karpov (the challenger) played again in 1986, 1987 and in 1990. These were the golden years of the World Championship matches and the match in Sevilla in 1987 was the most widely televised chess match in the world.Then followed title defenses against Nigel Short in London in 1993, against Vishy Anand in New York City in 1995 where they played on the 106th Floor of the World Trade Center and Mayor Rudolf Giuliani made the first move on of all days, "September eleventh". In 2000 after 15 years, Kasparov's reign as World Champion came to end with a loss to Kramnik in London.