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Garri Kimowitsch Kasparow
* 1963 in Baku/Azerbaijan
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Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster,
former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist and commentator.
From 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 255 months overall for his career.
In 1997 he became the first world champion to lose a match to a computer,
when he lost to the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a highly publicized match.
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