#Garry Kasparov

[dozydawn]

[disease]

Garry Kasparov, world champion chess player, succumbing to his public defeat by Deep Blue, IBM: a 'supercomputer' in development at the time. — MAY 11, 1997

[davidaugust]

But how? Comrade Krasnov's throat is only so deep.

"Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin 'are very good friends' who are focused on ways to strengthen the bonds between the United States and Russia."

"'What are the "shared objectives and interests" of the United States and Putin’s Russia?' Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov posted Monday on X. 'Destroying Ukraine? Killing NATO? Conquering Europe? Fascism? It’s not peace or ending the war, because Russia could do that today and doesn’t.'"

[victusinveritas]

[gabrielferaud]

Photo from Garry Kasparov’s website titled Karpov watching, 1985

“I know Kasparov as well as I know anyone. I know his smell. I can read him by that. I recognize the smell when he is excited and I know when he is scared. We may be enemies, but we are intimate enemies.”

Anatoly Karpov in Paul Hoffmann’s memoir King’s Gambit

[dontforgetukraine]

"We're not fighting just Putin and his cronies. We're fighting the imperial virus, and the only way to actually eradicate this virus from the minds of all the russians...is a shocking defeat."

[chessismyaesthetic]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jonathan Nicholson at HuffPost:

Elon Musk, rocket and electric car company chief, sometime Internet troll and more recently Donald Trump’s point man for cutting alleged waste from the federal government, may be on the cusp of becoming something else: the country’s first real oligarch.

That’s according to democracy activist and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, chairman of the New York-based Renew Democracy Initiative. Kasparov should know. As a celebrity chess prodigy in the 1980s, he tried to use his fame to buck the Communist system in Russia. Kasparov became a dissident after the Soviet Union fell, when Russian president Vladimir Putin began turning back the clock on the country’s nascent democracy. “There’s certain lessons that I think we can learn from Russia in the ’90s. The blurring of the lines between business and politics, which is called oligarchy by classical political philosophy ― it’s extremely dangerous,” Kasparov told HuffPost in a recent interview. Russia and some other post-Soviet countries, like Belarus or Kazakhstan, have struggled with democratic reforms and are run by strongmen able to subvert the law to reward their supporters and punish their opponents.

And Musk ― as both a major government contractor (by way of his companies) and now, potentially, as a Trump official with either formal or informal authority over how the government is reorganized ― could go beyond merely being wealthy and influential, Kasparov said. “Musk could be the first oligarch,” he said. “Having the largest private contractor of the U.S. government potentially being in the position of supervising the entire U.S. budget? I mean, just think about it. If this is not classical oligarchy, what is it?” “Oligarchy is not about the amount of money,” Kasparov went on. “Oligarchy is about blurring the line, erasing the line, between business and government.”

Ultimately, he said the question will hinge on whether Musk and the still nebulous Department of Government Efficiency — currently not an official agency — will operate within or outside of usual federal government ethics safeguards, and whether Musk will have to step aside from his CEO roles to run DOGE to avoid conflicts of interest. That’s because the concept of “conflicts of interest” doesn’t exist under oligarchy, he said. Official government departments can only be created by Congress, and Trump’s announcement of DOGE made it sound as if the new “department” will be only advisory in nature, at least on paper.

Chess superstar-turned-anti-authoritarianism crusader Garry Kasparov told HuffPost about the oligarchic dangers the 2nd Trump Administration will unfold, such as blurring the lines between business and politics.

[davidhudson]

Happy 61st, Garry Kasparov.

Photo by Devin Yalkin.

[dozydawn]

[falcon73br]

Garry Kasparov

[elaine-of-shalott-blog]

When Garry Kasparov says to you to resign, you resign 😂

30 October 2024. Chess9LX, Saint Louis Chess Club

[victusinveritas]

[gabrielferaud]

“okay now pretend to be thinking really hard, like you would during a game”

[papillondusoir]

REMATCH | Bande-annonce | ARTE Séries

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Putin tried and failed to murder Navalny quickly and secretly with poison, and now he has murdered him slowly and publicly in prison. He was killed for exposing Putin and his mafia as the crooks and thieves they are. My thoughts are with the brave man's wife and children.

Garry Kasparov, responding to the murder of Alexei Navalny by Putin's terrorist regime.