Garry Kasparov

March, 2008

A candid conversation with the Russian chess genius turned dissident about his crusade against Vladimir Putin and his fight to save his homelandLast November Carry Kasparov, arguably the greatest chess master in history, was playing a very different game—one with far higher stakes. He was leading several thousand people in a march through Moscow streets in protest of Russian president Vladimir Putin's regime. Before the march ended, Kasparov u'as arrester! and detained; he was quickly tried, con...

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