Garry Kasparov
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Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist and writer, who was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the
Kasparov in 2015
Kasparov at age 11, Vilnius, 1974
Kasparov at World Junior Championship victory ceremony, Dortmund, 1980
Kasparov after winning the FIDE World Championship title in 1985
Magnus Carlsen
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Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, reigning six-time World Rapid Chess Champion, reigning nine-time World Blitz Chess Champion and t
Garry Kasparov
…was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. From 1984 until his retirement from regular competitive chess in 2005, Kasparov was ranked the world's No. 1 player for a record 255 months…
Carlsen in 2025
Carlsen, aged 13, in Molde giving a simultaneous exhibition, July 2004
Carlsen vs. Ernst, 2004
Carlsen in Warsaw, 2005