Cardinal coach's big game Nov 14, 2009
Their pro-style offense has enough variations to give Garry Kasparov migraines. It also has a heavy dose of moxie. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Inaugural summit will hear youths dreams for a better future Oct 10, 2009
Participants at the event will have the privilege of meeting and listening to an impressive list of personalities from various fields, including the likes of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Live Aid founder Sir Bob Geldof, world chess champion Garry Kasparov, Facebook marketing director Randi Zuckerberg, former World Bank managing director Dr Mamphele Ramphele, Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan and Andes airplane crash survivor Nando Parrado, whose experience was depicted in the Hollywood movie... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Kasparov topples Karpov in chess title rematch Sep 25, 2009
MADRID (AP) -- Garry Kasparov soundly defeated Anatoly Karpov on Thursday in an exhibition chess match marking the 25th anniversary of their first title bout. On the last of three days of play that resumed a legendary rivalry, Kasparov won five games of speed chess, while Karpov took one game and two others ended in a draw. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- More)
* Sports Briefs Sep 22, 2009
Garry Kasparov said his re-match with old foe Anatoli Karpov in Spain, which was due to begin yesterday, would focus attention on the game again 25 years after the two masters first battle. The duel will put chess in the spotlight once again, as it did 25 years ago, Kasparov, 46, told the Spanish daily El Pais. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Kremlin offers lessons on democracy Sep 15, 2009
The most vocal Kremlin critics -- such as former world chess champion Garry Kasparov or former premier Mikhail Kasyanov -- were not invited to the state-of-the-art ice hockey stadium in Yaroslavl for the conference at all. Kremlin officials explained they had asked all the "genuine opposition figures represented in the state Duma" to attend -- such as the Communists or the nationalist LDPR -- but not "hooligans" or "extremists". (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
View: Let children choose their games Aug 8, 2009
Just before becoming CM, Modi visited Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where he was most impressed by the number of grandmasters, which includes former world champion Garry Kasparov, that the region has produced. Modi was told that this was due to kids learning chess from a very young age. (India Times, India)
Modi makes chess mandatory in Ahmedabad Aug 7, 2009
Baku has produced eight grandmasters, including Garry Kasparov. Modi learnt how children in Baku were smarter than kids in other parts of the erstwhile USSR. The mantra was their mass initiation into chess at a very young age. (India Times, India)
Sochi Olympic construction begins as clock ticks May 8, 2009
Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion turned Kremlin critic, compared Putin's investment in the Olympics with Czar Peter the Great's costly, single-minded quest to build a grand new Russian capital St. Petersburg on inhospitable swamplands. "Sochi is essentially Putin's capital. It's not just any city, it's his project," Kasparov told The Associated Press. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
IBM supercomputer tackles TV quiz show Apr 28, 2009
An IBM computer named Deep Blue defeated then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a celebrated man-versus-machine match in 1997. Developing a computer to compete at Jeopardy. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Joe PosnanskiINSIDE BASEBALL Mar 21, 2009
We can rail endlessly about how this manager abuses the bullpen, how that manager sets up his lineup without any easily accessible logic, how this manager gives up too many outs through bunts and ill-advised stolen base attempts, how that manager always seems to win even though his day-to-day strategies don't inspire thoughts of Garry Kasparov, and so on. But there are still mysteries to this game. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
My triumph at beating Berti the robot in playing rock-paper-scissors Feb 18, 2009
As epic confrontations between man and machine go, it is up there with the historic encounter between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue. This time, however, the two opponents pitted against each other were not the world chess champion and an IBM supercomputer, but a Times journalist and a robot called Berti. (Times Online)
