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Popularity: 0 Vote:	Chess is mental torture.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I am born in Baku and I am half Armenian-half Jewish, but my native tongue is Russian, my culture is Russian, my education is Russian.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I don't have to run for Presidency in Russia to feel good about myself. I already completed more than many people could have dreamed of.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I think it will be more difficult to deal with me as Putin deals with Khordokovsky.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	It was inevitable for me to step into the political fight after playing these long endless matches with Anatoli Karpov, who was my greatest rival and also darling of the system.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	It's about stopping the bleeding. The country is not yet ready to start a new campaign for presidential elections because first we have to make sure that we have this mechanism restored and we have election that looks like elections not just appointment of the Kremlin candidate.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	It's absolutely vital now for Russia to make sure that democratic institutions will be resurrected and will go through the election process.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Jirinovski is the best-paid clown.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Kremlin-controlled press never stops short of inventing stories about Putin's political opponents.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	No one knows where the business ends and the government begins and vice versa and I think that it should take some time before Russian people could recognise the virtues of liberal democracy and market economy but we need first to make sure that political system will be based on those principles.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Now with the 60th anniversary of D Day Putin's government is trying to restore the positive image of Stalin and they all try, they're trying to play with this nostalgia of the time when the Soviet Union was one of the two superpowers.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Russians are dreaming about better living, about the quality of the living standards.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	So far it's very hard to prove that joining Europe or joining any other international organisation could change their lives for better.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	Some of the myth of the Soviet time are still dominating the minds of many Russians.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	Soviet Union was the success of Russian Empire which was multinational multi-confessional state, and as long as we live in the same state I'm part of this state as much as President Putin.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	Yeltsin's rule was very different because Yeltsin did anything wrong against Russian democracy. In 1998 democracy nearly impeached President Yeltsin and he was well criticised in different print media and TV stations.

Biography

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (, pronounced with stress falling on the second syllable: kas-PA-rov) (born April 13, 1963) is a chess grandmaster and one of the strongest chess players in history. As of April 2005, his 2812 ELO rating places him highest on the FIDE listing (http://www.fide.com/ratings/top.phtml). Ranked first in the world for nearly all of the 20 years from 1985 to 2005, Kasparov was the last undisputed World Chess Champion from 1985 until 1993; and continued to be "classical" World Chess Champion (of the PCA and WCA) until his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000.

Kasparov announced his retirement from professional chess on March 10 2005, instead devoting time to politics and to do "everything in my power to resist Vladimir Putin's dictatorship." He is a leading member of the Committee 2008: Free Choice, a group of liberal opposition leaders.

Garry Kasparov was born as Gari Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan (at that time republic of Soviet Union) to Armenian-Jewish parentage. He first began the serious study of chess after he came across a chess problem set up by his parents and proposed a solution to it. When he was 7, his father died, and he adopted his mother's surname as soon as was legally possible, at the age of 12. His mother Klara is an Armenian woman whose surname is "Kasparian", and "Kasparov" is the Russianised version of this name.

Early career

Kasparov trained at Mikhail Botvinnik's chess school. He won the Soviet Junior Championship at Tbilisi in 1976, scoring 7 points out of 9, at the age of 13. He repeated the feat the following year, winning with a score of 8.5/9.

In 1978 Kasparov participated in the Sokolsky Memorial tournament at Minsk. He had been invited as an exception but took the first place and became a master. Kasparov has repeatedly said that this event was a turning point in his life, and that it convinced him to choose chess as his career. "I will remember the Sokolsky Memorial as long as I live", he wrote. He has also said that after the victory, he thought he had a very good shot at the World Championship.

Kasparov rose quickly through the FIDE rankings. Starting with an oversight by the Russian Chess Federation, Garry Kasparov participated in a Grandmaster tournament in Banja Luka while still unrated (the federation thought it was a junior tournament). He emerged from this top-class encounter with a provisional rating of 2595, enough to catapult him into the top group of chess players.

The next year, 1980, he won the World Junior Chess Championship in Dortmund, West Germany.

Kasparov sought to challenge world champion Anatoly Karpov — a firm favourite of the Russian Chess Federation. But first Kasparov had to pass the test of the Candidates Tournament to qualify.

His first Candidates match was against Alexander Beliavsky, from which Kasparov emerged surprisingly victorious (Beliavsky was an exceptionally tough opponent). Politics threatened Kasparov's next match against Viktor Korchnoi, which was scheduled to be played in Pasadena, California. Korchnoi defected from Russia in the late 1970s, and was at that time the strongest non-Soviet player. Various political manoeuvres prevented Kasparov from playing Korchnoi, and he forfeited the match.

This was resolved by Korchnoi's allowing the match to be replayed in London. Kasparov won.

Kasparov's final Candidates match was against the resurgent Vassily Smyslov (who was randomly selected to advance after a 7-7 tie against Huebner by the spin of a roulette wheel). Smyslov was the seventh world champion in 1957, but later years saw his willingness to fight for wins greatly diminished. Kasparov won.

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