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The World Chess Championship 1984 match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov had many ups and downs, and a very controversial finish. Karpov started in very good form, and after nine games Kasparov was down 4-0 in a "first to six wins" match. Fellow players predicted he would be whitewashed 6-0 within 18 games.
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Garry Kasparov stopped by The Times recently to talk about his campaign in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mr. Kasparov, the former world chess champion, was realistic about the steep odds against his fledgling movement succeeding at the ballot box. The point is not to win elections, he said, but to have elections.
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Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov relates how his understandings of the game of chesseffect other aspects of life. In "How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - from the Board to the Boardroom" Mr. Kasparovchronicles his twenty year professional chess career and his political life as the leader of a coalition opposed to the current Russian leadership. Mr. Kasparovdiscusses his book withLeon Aron, the director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of "Russia’s Revolution: Essays, 1989-2006."
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Founded by World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, KCF's mission is to bring the many educational benefits of chess to children by providing a complete chess curriculum and enrichment programs. The Foundation promotes the study of chess as a cognitive learning tool in curricular classes and after-school programs, both in the public and private school sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.kasparovchessfoundation.org.
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LONDON -- World chess champion Garry Kasparov, who is playing the world on the Internet, said Friday it was tough trying to outsmart the World Wide Web's challengers, but remained confident of a win or draw. "The world turned out to be very smart...but it has a very difficult task to save the game," Kasparov told Reuters in Russian-accented English.
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Garry Kasparov became the youngest world chess champion in 1985, a title that he held until 2000. Mr. Kasparov is the founder of political opposition groups in Russia that include United Civil Front and Other Russia, a coalition that he currently leads.
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