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Garry Kasparov learned to play chess as early as age five, watching the game from their parents. His father was a diversified man, loved poetry, music, chess. Noticing the unique analytical capabilities son, my father decided that chess should be preferred music, and that it foreshadowed the eventual choice of Harry’s life.
Born April 13, 1963 in Baku. Father – Kim Weinstein Moiseevich, specialty electrical engineer. Mother – Clara Kasparov Shagenovna by profession – an engineer, a specialist in automation and remote control. Before 1981 she worked as senior researcher and scientific secretary of the Azerbaijan Research Electrotechnical Institute. Garry Kasparov is married. His wife – Julia. From his first marriage he had a daughter Polina (1993g.rozhd.), From his marriage to Julia – son, Vadim (1996g.rozhd.).
He graduated from Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.

In chess, Garry Kasparov learned to play as early as age five, watching the game from their parents. His father was a diversified man, loved poetry, music, chess. Noticing the unique analytical capabilities son, my father decided that chess should be preferred music, and that it foreshadowed the eventual choice of Harry’s life.
The first serious lessons chess champion Garry received the Baku Palace of Pioneers. His coach, Oleg Privorotsky, immediately recognized the tremendous potential of the child, he quickly realized that fate had sent him a brilliant student. From childhood, Harry distinguished enviable diligence and maximum concentration in the classroom.

In competitions adult Harry begins to emerge since nine years. Great influence on the formation of Kasparov, the chess player had classes in the All-school former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik. The patriarch of Soviet chess laid in it the fundamental basis for understanding the strategy game, developed inherent in it great ability analyst. Dozens of notebooks, filled with another child’s hand, full analysis of all stages of the Party, still carefully kept in the library world champion.

Her debut Kasparov engaged in the preparation of the master Alexander Nikitin and Alexander Shakarov. Using a phenomenal memory of youth, they managed to make his debut repertoire of diverse and very broad in range. And today, many parties Kasparov achieves excellence already in the debut – affects many years experience of analytical work, allowing you to create a home laboratory stunning rival innovations.
Garry brilliantly at school, and was interested in geography, history, reading philosophical treatises, to master that it would be difficult and many adults. As a child he has not proved particularly health, but a serious and regular exercise have made it a real athlete.

For the first time on the chess scene Harry appeared in 1973 – he played in the team of Azerbaijan on the board of boys and 14 years (although he was only ten) on the All-Youth Games in Vilnius. But after a year and a half he made his debut on the USSR Youth Championship (under 18) in the same Vilnius and, despite the fact that he was under all until the finish was fighting for the highest places. Only a defeat in the final round pushed him over the line winners.

The following two junior championship of the USSR – in Tbilisi in 1976 and in Riga in 1977 – Harry confidently wins, showing already a master class. But the formalization of the master title was held after his phenomenal victory at the Memorial A. Sokolsky (Minsk, 1978), where he is ahead of its nearest competitor by 3.5 points. Prior to that, in such a young age became a master of none. In the same year, defeating a strong-Union qualifying tournament in Daugavpils, Kasparov became the youngest member in the history of chess league championship of the USSR. Two years later, 18-year-old boy becomes the champion of the strongest chess nation in the world. This achievement and remains unsurpassed.

In 1979 Kasparov for the first time performed grandmaster norm. This happened at a major international tournament in Banja Luka for the two rounds before the end of the competition! Already in the first ten rounds, he scored 8 victories and only two games ended in a draw, and eventually became the winner prematurely.

One of the most memorable was for Garry Kasparov in 1980. In the USSR team, he participated in the team championship in the Swedish city of Skara. His five wins have significant contribution to the European Soviet team gold. The second gold medal went to him for his brilliant high school graduation. Third – for winning the world championship among youth under age 20 in Dortmund. Fourth – for victory in the team of USSR
World Olympics.

By the age of 18 years in the asset Harry was almost a complete set of chess awards and regalia.
Youngest Grandmaster in the world, European champion, world, World Olympics in the team competition, the winner of major international tournaments. Ahead was alone cherished goal – the conquest of the title of world champion, and he begins to targeted training to achieve the main goal of his chess career.

In the first FIFA World (1982-1983), in which Kasparov took part, it passed all the stages – interzonal tournaments (Moscow, 1982, 1 st place), win the match contenders over Alexander Beliavsky, Vassily Smyslov and Viktor Korchnoi and got the right match for the world championship.

Fixtures 1984 between Garry Kasparov, world champion Anatoly Karpov was destined to be unprecedented in the history of chess and dramatic struggle, and for the force decisions that are taken in the course of a match official structures, the Sports Committee of the USSR and FIDE. As a result, sports fight was interrupted, and the president of FIDE, Florencio Campomanes, a secret agreement with the official institutions of the country, took an unprecedented decision: the match was declared interrupted without a declaration of the result, but a new game, when the score was 0:0, was appointed on September 1, 1985.

A second match between Kasparov and Karpov, who played in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, was marked by initiatives and the indisputable advantages of Garry Kasparov, and 10 November, he was declared the new champion – the thirteenth conference in the history of chess.
A year later in a rematch, held in London and Leningrad, Kasparov won again in a tense and dramatic struggle. And in 1987 in Seville (Spain) held the fourth match between Kasparov and Karpov, who became “arch-rivals.” The struggle reached its climax in the last game. Trailing in the account at the point, Kasparov was obliged to win it. In autumn 1985 his opponent in a similar situation could not do that. But Harry did not flinch and splendid victory kept the title of the top players in the world. In the history of the struggle for the world crown was not yet the case when the party won by a decisive lagging behind the bill.

The ability to overcome difficulties – one of the main traits of Kasparov. We can recall many instances when the toughest tournament and a match situation, he managed to finish a brilliant catch or overtake the leading contenders. He likes to constantly tempt fate and demonstrate his talents may have reached that previously no one had been reached. Rich imagination, the indomitable spirit of a fighter to help him make regular chess exploits.

In 1990 he was playing his fifth match of the irreconcilable opponents. It was held in New York and Lyon (France). Again, Harry defeats Karpov defended the title of the world strongest chess player. Twice more he won in the matches at the World Championships – Nigel Short in 1993 in London, and Viswanathan Anand in 1995 in New York. This made it 6-time world champion.

G. Kasparov – seven-time Olympic champion, he was seven times awarded “Chess Oscar” as the best chess player the year. He is the winner of numerous tournaments and matches, the most important of which were grandmaster World Cup (1988-89), in Tilburg (1989, 1991), Belgrade (1989), Linares (1990, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2000). Garry Kasparov became the first athlete to speak to a world championship in 1990, not under the Soviet, and under the Russian flag.

In 1989, Kasparov, the world’s first overcome the barrier of 2800 Elo rating – the main indicator in the modern chess game chess strength. For 15 years, Harry is the first line in this “Table of Ranks,” a brilliant series of victories in supertournament in 1999 allowed him to raise his rating to a fantastic mark – 2851! It should be noted that so far no one has not managed to overcome what point in 2800.

His first book, “Test time” Kasparov wrote in 20 years. His other publications, public speaking allowed Harry to create a unique image of chess researcher and journalist.

He was the first to give a simultaneous display the national teams of Germany (twice), Switzerland, Argentina, Israel, and won them.

In the late 80-ies Harry joined the active struggle against the dogmatic forms of leadership of FIDE, trying to draw in chess as investors the world’s largest companies. He was the initiator and creator of several chess organizations: International Association of Grandmasters (1988), the Professional Chess Association (1993) – played an important role in the promotion of chess and major international competitions, and drawing the world championship in 1995.

The last few years, he absorbed the idea of introducing chess on the Internet, which allows the use of modern information technology to live event, the educational process, to draw attention to chess hundreds of millions of people around the world.

In 1996, in Philadelphia and in 1997 in New York, he played a match against a supercomputer created by IBM – “DEEP BLUE”. The huge popularity of these games around the world has become a unique demonstration of the capabilities of man and machine. It was one of the important experiments the end of XX century.

In 1998, Kasparov created a chess site “Club Kasparov, who quickly became one of the most popular World Wide Web. Kasparov’s unique achievement was his victory in the match against the rest of the world, organized by Microsoft in 1999. Specially created for this Internet site for four months tense and exciting struggle attended by more than 3 million people. This interest in the chess event was not for the whole previous history.

In 1987, Kasparov engaged in private charities. In 1991, the first time in Russia was registered by the private Foundation for Kasparov, who at different times to provide material assistance to refugees, single pensioners and veterans of more than a million dollars.

Since 1991 he works in a well-known American newspaper “The World Street Journal”.

Garry, as in his youth, loves to play soccer, tennis, engaged in running, gymnastics and swimming.