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A Russian chess champion opines on Putin: Garry Kasparov suggests that Putin is a lousy chess player
American Thinker ^ | 04/21/2022 | Jon N. Hall

Posted on 04/21/2022 7:13:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

When a situation gets complicated, such as in Putin’s war on Ukraine, some analysts might observe that one side is playing chess while the other side is playing checkers. If one really wants to emphasize how outmatched one side is, an analyst might say that the other side is playing three-dimensional chess. Regular old two-dimensional chess is complicated enough, and when playing it at the grandmaster level can be labyrinthine.

The game of chess is rather like war. For one thing, chess involves strategy and tactics. Given that, perhaps we can learn something about the war in Ukraine and its mastermind Vlad Putin from the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who grew up in the old Soviet Union.

On April 20, Business Insider ran Cheryl Teh’s “Russian chess grandmaster and Putin critic Garry Kasparov has outlined the ‘right conditions’ for Putin to be overthrown in a ‘palace coup.’”  

Garry Kasparov, a famed chess grandmaster and vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has outlined the conditions necessary for the Russian leader to be overthrown…

"First, the Russian public and Russian elite, they have to recognize the war is lost," he said. "The bad news coming from Ukraine will inspire more people to rise because economic hardship will increase.

"So, military defeat in Ukraine, social-economic revolt, and then you will have conditions, the right conditions, for a palace coup," Kasparov added. "Because many of Putin's inner circle will be looking for a scapegoat and it's always a dictator who should be blamed for all the failures."…

"For a dictator for life, losing a war, it's devastating," Kasparov said. "It's a matter of political survival and in many cases, of physical survival. That's why he has to pretend he is winning the war."


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: clownworld; garrykasparov; gassbagg; gassygasparov; kasparov; putin; russia; ukraine
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For those who don't remember, Garry Kasparov was the world's chess champion 1985-2000. was ranked world No. 1 for a record 255 months overall for his career, which outstrips all other previous and current chess ranking records. Kasparov also holds records for the most consecutive professional tournament victories.

He was eventually beaten by a Chess Playing Supercomputer created by IBM named Deep Blue.

Kasparov is longtime critic of Putin and an interesting and serious guy. He also seems a fairly “normal” guy, especially when compared to America’s chess champ Bobby Fischer.

1 posted on 04/21/2022 7:13:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"...He also seems a fairly “normal” guy, especially when compared to America’s chess champ Bobby Fischer..."

That's called "damning with faint praise"! Like "Zuckerberg seems a fairly "normal" guy, especially when compared to the Soviet Leader Stalin..."

It just made me chuckle reading that...I just assumed Bobby Fischer had some kind of mental disorder but was good at chess...

2 posted on 04/21/2022 7:18:30 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Garry is also a strong anti-Trumper and an asshole.


3 posted on 04/21/2022 7:24:19 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: SeekAndFind
Kasparov's effective defeat of Karpov in the mid 80s by playing for draws in a match he was losing, which emotionally drained and weakened the elder Karpov, was super genius.

Kasparov is indeed interesting. Except Kasparov has the game wrong. Putin is played poker, not chess. Aside from that, he's spot-on and notwithstanding the slobbering class' love for Putin's faux conservatism, I'm interested in how comparable is Putin's laptop contents to that of Hunter's.

4 posted on 04/21/2022 7:24:37 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rasputin may be a lousy chess player but he knows how to play catch the bomb. I’m not a fan of the Ruskie dicktater. Just stating facts.


5 posted on 04/21/2022 7:27:50 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why would the political opinions of a chess player — even a good one — be any more valid than those of a popular actress or sportsball star or TikTok “influencer”?


6 posted on 04/21/2022 7:28:48 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Blurb2350

I think we have to look at each person’s opinions ON THEIR OWN MERITS, not what their profession is.


7 posted on 04/21/2022 7:30:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: DoodleBob

Putin seems detached from reality, and that’s not good in a dictator

He’s doing steroids, he’s posing shirtless with bears, etc., thinking he’s still a 20-year-old ... he’s freaking 70 and can’t realize that

just like he can’t realize that the old Soviet union is gone ... yet he still obstinately tries to put it back together, no matter how much misery & destruction is involved

Putin is a menace ... to the World, and to Russia itself

good riddance ASAP ... by natural or unnatural causes!!


8 posted on 04/21/2022 7:30:14 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Blurb2350

A Grandmaster chess player is very likely to have a much higher IQ than any actress, sports star, or influencer. That said, he didn’t like Putin in the past so it is not surprising he doesn’t like Putin now.


9 posted on 04/21/2022 7:34:50 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Kasparov is a world champion chess player but a lousy politician*. Putin is a lousy chess player but a world champion politician who got to the top of the greasy pole (as Disraeli put it) in the cutthroat world of Russian politics where losers end up dead. Whatever you might say about his ethics, Putin is a formidable personality, one who will be remembered, for better or worse, long after Kasparov is forgotten. And I mean no disrespect to Kasparov, who is obviously one of the great champions in the game he has taken up as his life’s work.

* He tried his hand at politics in the year of Obama, and crashed in flames.


10 posted on 04/21/2022 7:37:28 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

He’s good buddies with Bill Krystol, Max Boot, and the Lincoln Project.


11 posted on 04/21/2022 7:42:20 AM PDT by wrcase
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To: Zhang Fei

Putin is a master politician?

Please.

Putin is a stupid gangster who controlled the KGB ... anyone who got in his way he could easily get quietly arrested or shot

He’s even had opposition politicians and critical journalists assassinated

that’s not a master politician, that’s a thug killing his way to the top just like any Mafia crime boss ... and that’s how we should look at him

Putin is a coward and a bully


12 posted on 04/21/2022 7:44:40 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: alternatives?

College professors probably have a higher IQ too and I don’t trust what they think either.


13 posted on 04/21/2022 7:44:41 AM PDT by wrcase
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“He was eventually beaten by a Chess Playing Supercomputer created by IBM named Deep Blue.”

That was such a weird PR stunt.

1. IBM beats the greatest chess guy and then immediately gets out of the chess biz. No rematches planned despite public interest.

2. The science(!) and AI narrative gets a huge boost as our best human chess player is defeated. All bow before your HAL gods.

3. IBM makes no further progress in the field since this victory in 1997, 25 years ago.

It doesn’t take a 3D chess player to see the whole thing stunk. Simplest explanation is to take a dive, get a big retirement package.


14 posted on 04/21/2022 7:44:48 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Garry’s anti Trumpism is solely based on his perception that Trump is/was an ally of Putin.


15 posted on 04/21/2022 8:05:10 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: canuck_conservative

[Putin is a master politician?

Please.

Putin is a stupid gangster who controlled the KGB ... anyone who got in his way he could easily get quietly arrested or shot

He’s even had opposition politicians and critical journalists assassinated

that’s not a master politician, that’s a thug killing his way to the top just like any Mafia crime boss ... and that’s how we should look at him

Putin is a coward and a bully]


You have a Disneyfied idea of how kings ascend to the throne. Putin lived in a world of thugs. He merely killed before he was killed. This is Russian history for the last 1000 years. Catherine the Great (German) killed her husband the Tsar and took his place on the throne. Beria poisoned Stalin and was in turn killed by a coalition of opponents led by Zhukov, who was in turn displaced by Khrushchev. It’s a dog-eat-dog world of thieves and cutthroats, and devil take the hindmost.


16 posted on 04/21/2022 8:06:58 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: SeekAndFind

yawn.... Tom Brady thinks that Putin is a crappy quarterback.

Both Péle and Cristiano Rinaldo think Putin is a terrible soccer player.

Alexander Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Wayne Gretzky thinks Putin sucks at hockey

Leandro Lo, Alexandre Rubeiro, Roger Gracie say that Putin can’t take a punch and would be choked out in 2 seconds... he blows at JuJitsu.

Putin is a murdering former KGB operative fighting a murdering puppet for the CIA and deep state... it’s not a good guy versus a bad guy... It’s a bad guy versus another bad guy.... with civilians caught in the middle and dying by the thousands.... as usual.

Putin said that if NATO was expanded in the former Soviet Republics he’d attack them. That’s why we (the USA/CIA/deep state) have put 200 or so Marines in Estonia and other USA units (paratroopers/artillery/mobile units) in Lithuania... they are human sacrifices or trip wires for NATO involvement.

I think Biden should ask his son to brief us on the energy policy of Ukraine as it pertains to our current energy crisis since he’s an “expert” as was Romney, Pelosi’s family members. They got paid by St. Zelensky’s group... as well as Graham, McCain, Clinton and others....


17 posted on 04/21/2022 8:09:08 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitantes)
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To: proust

No rematches because IBM didn’t want to risk losing. They scored a PR home run with Deep Blue II rematch and as they say, quit when you are ahead.


18 posted on 04/21/2022 8:11:45 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: wrcase

I would say the stem professors have a higher IQ. Most of the rest, I doubt.


19 posted on 04/21/2022 8:15:42 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: libh8er

If their supercomputer was so great, there was very little probability in losing.


20 posted on 04/21/2022 8:24:45 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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