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At 13, Garry Kasparov captured the Soviet Junior Champion title and in 1980, at age 17, he became the world junior champion and an International Grandmaster. His ability to think, analyse, calculate and study chess tactics and the tactics of his opponents was being recognised by the chess community.
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Garry Kasparov, no doubt with a few sour grapes underfoot, coined that term to describe the conservative, play-the-percentages chess style epitomized by the man who took away his world championship title in 2000, Vladimir Kramnik. The basic precepts are:
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Garry Kasparov was born and raised in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. At the early age of 6, he had already started playing chess and began to demonstrate his skills as a child chess prodigy. Kasparov’s brilliance and intellect captured the attention of Mikhail Botvinnik, former World Champion (1948-1957, 1958-1960, and 1961-1963). Kasparov was invited to attend Botvinnik’s exclusive chess school for gifted children. At the school, Kasparov studied and learned chess with some of the most talented chess teachers and students. Students included Anatoly Karpov, and Artur Yuspov, one of the coaches for Viswanathan Anand.
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Kasparov rose quickly through the FIDE (World Chess Federation) rankings. Starting with an oversight by the USSR Chess Federation, he participated in a Grandmaster tournament in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia, in 1979 while still unrated (the federation thought it was a junior tournament). He won this high-class tournament, emerging with a provisional rating of 2595, enough to catapult him to the top group of chess players (at the time, number 3 in the World, ex-champion Boris Spassky had 2630, while World Champion Anatoly Karpov 2690-2700). The next year, 1980, he won the World Junior Chess Championship in Dortmund, West Germany. Later that year, he made his debut as second reserve for the Soviet Union at the Chess Olympiad at La Valletta, Malta, and became a Grandmaster.
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Garry Kimovich Kasparov was born as Garry Vajnshtejn on April 13, 1963 in Baku Azerbaijan (at that time a republic of Soviet Union). His mother was Armenian and his father was Jewish. On the July 1999 FIDE rating list, his ELO was 2851, the highest rating ever achieved. He has been ranked 1st in the world a record 23 times between 1985 and 2006. He has ... won the Chess Oscar 11 times.
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Garry was born April 13, 1963, in Baku, the capital of what was then Soviet Azerbaijan. Garry's last name was originally Wainshtain, but his father died when he was six, and at age 12, he changed to a version of his mother's maiden name Kasparian. Already by the age of ten, his play had begun to attract attention, and he was invited to join Botvinnik's school where he studied mainly by correspondence for five years. By the age of 15, he had made it to the Top League of the Soviet championship, which was ... a Zonal for the next world championship. He finished in the middle of the pack, but he managed to beat Lev Polugaevsky, who was at the time one of the world's top ten players. He entered the top ten himself after a victory at Banja Luka in Apr.-May 1979 ahead of Ulf Andersson and former world champion Tigran Petrosian.
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