World Junior Chess Champions - Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky, Yasser Seirawan, Alexander Beliavsky, Viswanathan Anand (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky, Yasser Seirawan, Alexander Beliavsky, Viswanathan Anand, Borislav Ivkov, Levon Aronian, Tony Miles, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Emil Sutovsky, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, Artur Yusupov, Andrei Sokolov, Harriet Hunt, Pendyala Harikrishna, Kiril Georgiev, Vladimir Akopian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, William Lombardy, Florin Gheorghiu, Tal Shaked, Vera Nebolsina, Koneru Humpy, Shen Yang, Julio Kaplan, Xu Yuanyuan, Zhu Chen, Kamil Baginskait, Nana Dzagnidze, Alisa Galliamova, Joel Lautier, Zhao Xue, Lazaro Bruzon, Sergey Dolmatov, Bojan Kurajica, Curt Hansen, Dmitry Andreikin, Maxim Dlugy, Bruno Parma, Ognjen Cvitan, Elisabeth Pahtz, Zaven Andriasian, Abhijeet Gupta, Agnieszka Brustman, Igor Miladinovi, Ilya Gurevich, Darmen Sadvakasov, Werner Hug, Hoang Thanh Trang, Nino Khurtsidze, Valery Chekhov, Oscar Panno, Peter Acs, Pablo Zarnicki, Walter Arencibia, Mark Diesen, Carlos Bielicki, Alexander Galkin, Vasil Spasov, Helgi Gretarsson, Roman Slobodjan. Excerpt: Garry Kimovich Kasparov (, Russian pronunciation: born Garry Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963, Baku, Azerbaijan) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time. Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at the age of 22. He held the official FIDE world title until 1993, when a dispute with FIDE led him to set up a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association. He continued to hold the "Classical" World Chess Championship until his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000. He is also widely known for being the first world chess champion to lose a match to a computer under standard time controls, when he lost to Deep Blue in 1997. Kasparov's ratings achievements include being rate...