If he opposes Putin, then he should consider himself lucky if getting hit by a chessboard is all that happens to him.
-Dan
Posted on 04/16/2005 10:36:08 PM PDT by paltz
MOSCOW (AP) - Garry Kasparov, the world's former No. 1 chess player who quit the professional game last month to focus on politics, said Saturday he had been hit over the head with a chessboard in a politically motivated attack.
Kasparov, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was not injured Friday when he was hit with the chessboard after signing it for a young man at an event in Moscow.
A spokeswoman for Kasparov, Marina Litvinovich, said the assailant told the chess champion: "I admired you as a chess player, but you gave that up for politics."
She said the unidentified attacker - who did not reveal his political allegiance - tried to hit Kasparov again but was hauled away by security guards.
"It was a fairly nasty incident, it was not very pleasant psychologically," Kasparov told the private NTV television.
The 41-year-old Kasparov, a brilliant and aggressive tactician regarded by many as the greatest chess player of all time, has been ranked No. 1 in the world since 1984.
He retired last month, saying he planned to focus on politics and do "everything in my power to resist Putin's dictatorship." He plays a leading role in the Committee 2008: Free Choice, a group formed by liberal opposition leaders.
Putin has been accused of stifling democratic freedoms by placing national television under effective state control and centralizing power by boosting Kremlin control of parliament and country's regions.
That's one way to beat him at chess.
lol :)
-Dan
She connected with a left rook....
um, did somebody say, Check? :-)
mate?
From what I've seen of Putin's way of doing things, Kasparov's fortunate the chess board wasn't attached to a tank tread.
Putin is not a nice man.
good thing he wasn't a hockey player or a bowler
"liberal opposition leaders"
Liberal as in classical liberal I presume?
Incorrect opening
Message from Putin to Kasparov?
So was it made of marble or particleboard?
Here's Mr. Yuschenko for reference
My brother did that to me once. At least our chessboard was cardboard.
I don't condone violence but that is pretty funny.
Possible, such a little warning.
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