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Garry Kasparov

Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Beth Harmon, a child chess prodigy, in Netflix's 'The Queen's Gambit'.

Garry Kasparov on how ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ brilliantly moves chess skills to center stage

Culture

The Russian grandmaster provided consulting help for the popular Netflix series, explaining how to make the game look more real and add historical context to epic US-Soviet matches.

Garry Kasparov faced off against Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing computer in 1997. Deep Blue was able to imagine an average of 200,000,000 positions per second. Kasparov ended up losing the match.

Garry Kasparov and the game of artificial intelligence

Technology
A poster of chess player Garry Kasparov in Tromso, Norway, where the former world champion lost his bid to become the president of the World Chess Federation, or FIDE.

A chess legend fails in his bid to become the sport’s official king

Culture
A poster of chess player Garry Kasparov in Tromso, Norway, where the former world champion lost his bid to become the president of the World Chess Federation, or FIDE.

A chess legend fails in his bid to become the sport’s official king

Culture

Russian band Pussy Riot, convicted of hooliganism, given two-year sentences

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We were looking for a Spanish city that’s playing host to a rematch between chess greats Garry Kasparov Garry and Anatoly Karpov. The answer is Valencia. Anchor Marco Werman speaks to two journalists covering the chess re-match.