Kasparov blamed 'official obstruction' for the lack of available space. In 2008, he announced an intention to run as a candidate in that year's Russian presidential race, but failure to find a sufficiently large rental space to assemble the number of supporters that is legally required to endorse such a candidacy led him to withdraw. He formed the United Civil Front movement, and joined as a member of The Other Russia, a coalition opposing the administration and policies of Vladimir Putin. In spite of losing the title, he continued winning tournaments and was the world's highest-rated player when he retired from professional chess in 2005.Īfter Kasparov retired, he devoted his time to politics and writing. He continued to hold the 'Classical' World Chess Championship until his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000. In 1997 he became the first world champion to lose a match to a computer under standard time controls, when he lost to the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a highly publicized match. He held the official FIDE world title until 1993, when a dispute with FIDE led him to set up a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association. Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22 by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.

Kasparov also holds records for consecutive professional tournament victories (15) and Chess Oscars (11). His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров, Russian pronunciation: born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider to be the greatest chess player of all time. Instructive game tags: Pirc, Fianchettoed bishop, battery, exchange off dark squared bishop, preparing queenside castling, queenside expansion, castling queenside, Knight manoeuvre, d5 break, break in center, central pawn break, knight on a5, aggressive knight, centralising rooks, opening e-file, rook sac, rook sacrifice, brilliant rook sacrifice, drawing king down board, king hunt, amazing king hunt, brilliancy, brilliant king hunt, forcing moves, covering escape squares, sucking king down, king walking, king exposed, mating threat, threatening mate, quiet king move, maintaining threats, pawn sacrifice, pawn sac, Qa1 check, amazing queen moves, bishop sac, bishop decoy, king drawn to first rank, rook deflection, winning rook, material advantage, superb king hunt, immortal game, brilliant game, kasparov's iconic game, kasparov's immortal gameġ.

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