Garry Kasparov

How should the West deal with Putin’s Russia? For the U. S. and some European powers the answer is obvious: isolate Russia with punishing economic sanctions, remove it from global institutions such as the G8, and arm the nations directly threatened by Putin. In short, return to the Cold War doctrine that froze Soviet aggression in Europe and helped bring about the collapse of communist Russia. Others argue that such a policy is a dead end. Putin’s Russia has legitimate grievances against Western and NATO powers meddling in its sphere of influence. Instead of further antagonizing Putin and risking a dangerous escalation of the current conflict, the U. S. and Europe should seek common cause with Russia to address shared threats, from the Middle East to Asia to combatting terrorism. In the fifteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, acclaimed academic Stephen F. Cohen and veteran journalist and bestselling author Vladimir Poznar square off against internationally renowned expert on Russian history Anne Applebaum and Russian-born political dissident Garry Kasparov to debate the future of the West’s relationship with Russia.

Kasparov var som skakspiller kendt for sin selvsikre, aggressive, angribende stil. I 'Livet er et skakspil' viser han, hvordan denne tilgang også kan bruges i livets kampe. Bogen indkredser, hvordan man både kan få succes som skakspiller og som menneske, hvis man forstår at lægge den rette strategi og evner at tænke taktisk. Kasparov peger på, hvordan den rette kombination af talent, forberedelse og engagement kan realisere menneskers potentiale og skabe vindere. Undervejs fortæller Kasparov indsigtsfulde og underholdende anekdoter om skakhistoriens store mestre og om de bedste krigsstrateger i historien som Napoleon og Bismarck. Og vi hører desuden om erhvervslivets strategiske kampe mellem fx Microsoft og Apple. Kasparovs politiske kamp mod sin nye ærkerival præsident Putin, som han udfordrede til præsidentposten ved valget i 2008, spiller en stor rolle i den sidste del af bogen. ”Jeg plejede at angribe, fordi det var det eneste, jeg kendte til. Nu angriber jeg, fordi jeg ved, at det er det, der fungerer bedst. Mine nye erfaringer inden for det politiske felt har ikke ændret denne vurdering.” (– fra bogen)

Tactical play is the nitty-gritty of chess. It's the stuff that players are trying to work out when they say to themselves, If I go there and he goes there ...and then I check him with the knight ...now, what can he do ...etc." At a social or weak club level, virtually 100% of games are decided for tactical reasons. If you want to play good chess you have to understand tactics. It's that simple! Checkmate Tactics, written by the greatest chess player of all time, will help you achieve this goal.

Between 1984 and 1990 Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested five long matches for the World Championship. This fourth volume of the series 'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' concentrates on all the games played between the two from 1988 to the present day and features their fifth World Championship match played in New York and Lyon 1990. The period after 1990 was also a fascinating one in the chess world as it witnessed the emergence of a new generation of young grandmasters capable of challenging the supremacy of the two 'K's'. Between them these great champions had dominated the chess landscape for the previous two decades and it has seemed unthinkable that a major tournament could be won by a different player. Now, however, grandmasters such as Viswanathan Anand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Nigel Short, Boris Gelfand, Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov arrived on the scene and proved themselves capable of competing successfully at the very highest levels. This period also witnessed an increasing disatisfaction amongst the world elite with the traditional ruling body, FIDE (the World Chess Federation). This led to attempts by the leading grandmasters to organise the World Championship cycle outside of FIDE's jurisdiction. In the late 1980s the Grandmasters Assocation (GMA) was created and was responsible for the organisation of the World Cup - a tournament championship of the world's leading chess players. Another organisation, the Professional Chessplayers Association (PCA) followed in 1993. In this volume Garry Kasparov (world champion between 1985 and 2000 and generally regarded as the greatest player ever) analyses in depth all the games and matches he played against his great rival Anatoly Karpov from 1988 to the present day. Kasparov was personally involved in the creation of both the GMA and PCA and gives a fascinating insight into this important time in chess history.

Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are unquestionably the protagonists who featured in the greatest ever chess rivalry. Between 1984 and 1990 they contested five long matches for the World Championship. This 3rd volume of the,'Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess' series concentrates on the third and fourth matches in this sequence: London/Leningrad 1986 and Seville 1987. Both matches were tremendously exciting and hard fought and both produced chess of an extremely high level.

The history of sport has seen many great gladiatorial clashes: Ali v Frazier in boxing, McEnroe v Borg in tennis, Prost v Senna in motor racing. None however can quite compare to the intensity of the rivalry between those two great world chess champions: Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. Between 1984 and 1990 they contested an astonishing five World Championship matches consisting of 144 individual encounters. This volume concentrates on the first two of those matches. The epic 1984/85 contest which lasted six months before being controversially halted "without result" by the then President of FIDE Florencio Campomanes. The 1985 match when Kasparov brilliantly won the final game to take the title and become - at the age of 22 - the youngest ever world champion. Great chess contests have often had resonances extending beyond the 64 squares. The Fischer v Spassky match was played during the Cold War with both champions being perceived as the finest products of their respective ideologies. The Karpov v Korchnoi battles (three matches between 1974 and 1981) were lent an edge with Karpov being a Russian hero of the pre-Glasnost era whilst Korchnoi was the disaffected dissident. The Kasparov v Karpov encounters mirrored a battle between the new Russia and old Russia with Kasparov seen as a symbol of the new ideology emerging under Gorbachev whereas Karpov was seen to represent the old regime of die-hard Communists such as Brezhnev. In this volume Garry Kasparov (world champion between 1985 and 2000 and generally regarded as the greatest player ever) analyses in depth the clashes from 1984 and 1985, giving his opinions both on the political machinations surrounding the matches as well as the games themselves.

'O Teste do Tempo' uma colet nea das melhores partidas da fase inicial da carreira de Garry Kasparov, de 1978 a 1984, quando como um b lido assombrou com a qualidade do seu jogo o mundo do xadrez, at chegar a ser o desafiante do Campe o Mundial Anatoly Karpov e, ao venc -lo, se transformar no astro maior da constela o enxadr stica internacional, permanecendo como Campe o Mundial por 15 anos. As partidas de 'O teste do tempo' s o fartamente analisadas por Garry Kasparov, o mais jovem Campe o Mundial de xadrez da Hist ria. Essas an lises revelam a abrang ncia e a originalidade da sua vis o do tabuleiro e principalmente a sua forma de abordar as posi es na luta frente a jogadores excepcionais como Beliavsky, Gligoric, Karpov, Kortchnoi, Larsen, Najdorf, Petrosian, Portisch, Smyslov, Spassky, Sunye e Tal, dentre tantos outros. Pref cio do GM Rafael Leit o.

A illustrated introduction to the fundamental principles of chess, which explains the important concepts of the game, with details of ninety exercises to test key chess skills.