Childhood

Playing chess at the age of five Harry taught his father – Kim Moiseevich Weinstein, electrical engineer by profession [2]. Santa Harry – Moses Rubinovich Weinstein (1906-1963) – was a famous composer and conductor of Baku, the head of the musical part of multiple theaters of the city. The whole family on the father’s side was the music: the younger brother of his father, Leonid Moiseevich Weinstein – also a composer [3], Honored Artist of Azerbaijan, grandmother – a music teacher in high school.

Regular practice of chess champion Garry began in Baku Palace of Pioneers in seven years. At the same age he lost his father, who died of leukemia. In 1976, when Harry was 12 years old, his mother – an Armenian Clara Shagenovna Kasparian, an engineer, a specialist in automation and remote control – changed his name [2] with his father’s Weinstein on Kasparov – his name in the Russified version by replacing the ending of the Armenian-Russian yang s. This was done with the consent of relatives to facilitate future chess career of the young, but making the serious hopes chess [4]. Clara Shagenovna after the death of her husband’s devoted herself to the chess career of his son.

With ten years Kasparov chess school was engaged in ex-world champion Mikhail Botvinnik. In fifteen years, Kasparov has become an assistant Botvinnik.

In 1975 in Leningrad at the tournament Palaces of the pioneers in the simultaneous match against world chess champion Anatoly Karpov has an equal position, but made a mistake and lost [5]. In the same tournament in the session against Viktor Korchnoi has forced GM to a draw.

In 1976, thirteen-Garry Kasparov won the championship of the USSR Chess Championship boys.

In 1978 he won the chess Sokolsky Memorial in Minsk and received a master of sport in chess.

In 1980, Kasparov became the youngest grandmaster in the world at that time, approaching the record of Bobby Fischer, has won the title in Dortmund chess champion among the boys, and graduated from high school with a gold medal.

In 1981, eighteen Kasparov won the title of champion of the USSR Chess Championship, becoming the youngest champion of the USSR Chess Championship in the history of the country.

He graduated from Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (1986)

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