About Garry
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1963, Kasparov became world chess champion in 1985 at age 22, the youngest to hold the title, and held it until 2000. He held the world No. 1 ranking for a record 255 months from 1984 to 2005. His 1996-97 matches against IBM's Deep Blue computer were pivotal in bringing artificial intelligence to mainstream attention. He retired from competitive chess in 2005 to focus on pro-democracy activism in Russia. Named chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation in 2012, succeeding Václav Havel, and founded the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017.
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- World chess champion 1985-2000
- Matches against IBM Deep Blue computer 1996-97
- Russian pro-democracy activism
- Founding the United Civil Front movement
- Chairman of Human Rights Foundation 2012-2024
- Founder of Kasparov Chess Foundation
- Research on human-machine collaboration
- Books on chess history and strategy
- Chess grandmaster
- Political activist
- Writer
- Commentator
- Chess
- Politics
- Technology
- Strategy
- Human rights
- Artificial intelligence
- Human-machine collaboration
- Strategy and decision-making
- Chess education
- Democracy and human rights
- Cyber security
- Technology and innovation
- Russian politics
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