In chess circles, that name has long carried significant weight. Gary Kasparov became a world chess champion in 1985 and ...

Chess is undergoing a revival. And chess legend Garry Kasparov hopes to keep it going with a new website he has started with Vivendi dubbed Kasparovchess.com.. The new website is a portal for all ...

Garry Kasparov believes Gukesh's rapid win against Magnus Carlsen had a significant psychological impact, affecting his blitz ...

Garry Kasparov is perhaps the greatest chess player in history. For almost two decades after becoming world champion in 1985, he dominated the game with a ferocious style of play and an equally ...

Garry Kasparov has a good case for being the best chess player in history, and not just because he's the last world champion to have reigned before the machines took over.

The former world chess champion's political views have attracted a loyal following, ... In February 2013 the Investigative Committee of Russia gave Garry Kasparov's 76-year-old mother a call.

LONDON — Garry Kasparov, the brilliant and volatile reigning champion of chess for the last 15 years, lost his title Thursday night to a former pupil and fellow Russian who was a schoolboy when ...

Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.

LISBON, Portugal — Garry Kasparov knew as early as 1997 — 20 years ago — that humans were doomed, he says. It was in May of that year, in New York, that he lost a six-game chess match to IBM ...

"I think we've forgotten many important lessons of the Cold war," says human-rights activist and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov.

World chess champion Garry Kasparov is seen on a video screen pondering a move against IBM's chess playing computer, Deep Blue, in New York while chess fans look on. The New York Daily News.

Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match on February 10, 1996, against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. CHESS GRANDMASTER ALLEGEDLY ...