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.
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...
Garry is also a strong anti-Trumper and an asshole.
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.
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.
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”?
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.
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....
Russian military obviously never play chess. They use pawns or cannon fodder.