Saturday, March 03, 2007

King's Gambit: Kasparov Variation



Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and likely the best chess player to have ever lived, retired from chess in 2005. Since then, he has spent time trying his hand at Russian politics. He is not a big fan of Putin, and back in April 2005, was bashed over the head with a chess board. Its not clear why someone did it, but it happened.

Yesterday, he led a protest in St. Petersburg. A bold gambit from Garry K. Read about it here.

1 comment:

Dwight Mengel said...

A liberal democrat is an endanged species in Russia. It's always "open season".