Garry Kasparov

GARRY KASPAROV came to international fame as the youngest chess champion ever in 1985 at the age of twenty-two. He broke Bobby Fischer’s rating record in 1990 and his own peak rating record remained unbroken until 2013. He retired from competitive chess in 2005 to join the vanguard of the Russian pro-democracy movement, and founded the United Civil Front, and organized the Marches of Dissent to protest the repressive policies of Vladimir Putin. Kasparov has been a contributing editor to the Wall Street Journal since 1991 and is a frequent commentator on politics and human rights.