LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Garry Kasparov: Chess
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After the long list of unsolved murders – those of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko are merely the most notorious – Garry Kasparov has every reason to be intimidated. Yet this coded manifesto of a book is only the latest sign that his courage at the chessboard has not deserted him in the political arena.
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Garry Kasparov was born as Garry Vajnshtejn (the given name analogous to English "Harry" and surname analogous to German "Weinstein" ) in Baku, Azerbaijan (a former Soviet Socialist Republic) to an Armenian mother and a Jewish father. He first began the serious study of chess after he came across a chess problem set up by his parents and proposed a solution.Unlimited Challenge, an autobiography by Garry Kasparov with Donald Trelford, ISBN 0-00-637658-5 His father died when he was 7 years old, and as soon as was legally possible, at the age of 12, he adopted his mother's surname, Kasparian. He... modified the name to a Russified version - Kasparov.
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Garry Kimovich Kasparov was born Gary Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR in 1963. Kasparov learned to play chess from his father who later died in a road accident when he was 7 years old. He subsequently changed his name to Kasparov, a Russified version of his mother's maiden name, Kasparyan. Kasparov's chess talent was apparent at an early age. In 1973 he attended the Botvinnik Chess School and Kasparov continued to make rapid progress. In 1975 at the age of 12 he became the youngest ever player to win the USSR Junior Championship.
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Garry Kimovich Kasparov was born Garri Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan, which was then part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). As a young boy he learned chess from his father, who died when Garri was seven years old. He subsequently adopted his mother's maiden name, and his first name is now commonly spelled “Garry.”
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(April 2003) Garry Kimovich Kasparov was born 13 April 1963 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Kim Moiseyevich Weinstein, his father, was a teacher and Klara Shagenovna Kasparova, his mother of Armenian ancestry, was an engineer. He learned chess at age 5 from his father, who died a few years later; the boy then changed his name from Weinstein to Kasparov.
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Kasparov first began to study chess seriously when he came across a chess problem set up by his parents and proposed a solution. At the age of 8, he left the Tiffin School and trained at Mikhail Botvinnik's chess school. At age 13, he won the Soviet Junior Championship of 1976 at Tbilisi, scoring 7 points out of 9. The following year he won again with a score of 8.5 out of 9. In 1978, he participated in the Sokolsky Memorial tournament at Minsk. He was invited as an exception and took 1st place and became a master.
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