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Garry Kasparov

World's greatest chess player

Garry Kasparov is the world’s most famous chess player of all time. In 2005, after 20 years of being at the top, he stopped participating in contests. Nowadays he speaks all over the world about a wide range of topics. He is the author of ‘My great predecessors’ and ‘How life imitates chess’ and has written several articles in The Wall Street Journal. Kasparov is still in the public limelight though. He can be seen in commercials where he passionately tries to integrate chess in all kind

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Employability:
Keynote Speaker, Motivational Speaker
Languages:
English, Russian
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About Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov is the world’s most famous chess player of all time. In 2005, after 20 years of being at the top, he stopped participating in contests. Nowadays he speaks all over the world about a wide range of topics. He is the author of ‘My great predecessors’ and ‘How life imitates chess’ and has written several articles in The Wall Street Journal.

Kasparov is still in the public limelight though. He can be seen in commercials where he passionately tries to integrate chess in all kind of educational systems. He has his own foundation, the Kasparov Chess Foundation, which is located in the United States.

His career is impressive. In 1979, when he was 16 years old, he won of 14 Grand Masters in Banja Luka. One year later he became world champion in the junior division and in 1981 he became USSR champion. Through all the years from 1985 to 2006 onward he was listed as the world’s number one chess player for the entire globe.

Topics

  1. 1. Chess

  2. 2. How life imitates chess

  3. 3. Russian politics

  4. 4. Strategy and tactics

  5. 5. Achieving your potential

  6. 6. Strategy & competition

  7. 7. Logical thinking

  8. 8. Strategy - the big picture

  9. 9. Limit of Endurance

  10. 10. Leaders vs. Managers

  11. 11. Success is in the Mind

  12. 12. How the computer changed the game of chess forever

  13. 13. From man to machine

  14. 14. Making use of strategic thinking in business & politics

  15. 15. Strategy for decoding the complexity of life

  16. 16. All you have to do is find the courage to make up your mind

Books

  • How Life Imitates Chess

  • My Great Predecessors – Part V

  • On My Great Predecessors – Part IV

  • On My Great Predecessors – Part III

  • On My Great Predecessors – Part II

  • On My Great Predecessors – Part I

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