Sazar
03-11-05, 04:36 PM
wow... didn't see this coming...
kudo's to him for bringing chess back to the forefront and for showing that man can indeed face up to a mathematically superior in-animate device and hold his own...
:thumbsup:
Former world champion Garry Kasparov has announced that he is to retire from competitive chess.
He made the surprise announcement after winning a prestigious tournament in Spain for the ninth time.
"I will continue to play chess because it is a lot of fun, but no longer on a professional level," he said.
The 41-year-old said he had made the decision because of the intense pressure which he had been under over recent years.
The chess grandmaster, a leading critic of Mr Putin, heads a group of top Russian liberals who have joined forces to keep Vladimir Putin from staying in the Kremlin after 2008.
His group, called Committee 2008: Free Choice, has criticised Mr Putin's control over Russia's parliament and the country's media, and what it calls the "flat-out falsification of the last election's results".
They have vowed to ensure a new president is elected in 2008.
hopefully his leaving is not influenced by putin... but nevertheless he had a glorious career...
kudo's to him for bringing chess back to the forefront and for showing that man can indeed face up to a mathematically superior in-animate device and hold his own...
:thumbsup:
Former world champion Garry Kasparov has announced that he is to retire from competitive chess.
He made the surprise announcement after winning a prestigious tournament in Spain for the ninth time.
"I will continue to play chess because it is a lot of fun, but no longer on a professional level," he said.
The 41-year-old said he had made the decision because of the intense pressure which he had been under over recent years.
The chess grandmaster, a leading critic of Mr Putin, heads a group of top Russian liberals who have joined forces to keep Vladimir Putin from staying in the Kremlin after 2008.
His group, called Committee 2008: Free Choice, has criticised Mr Putin's control over Russia's parliament and the country's media, and what it calls the "flat-out falsification of the last election's results".
They have vowed to ensure a new president is elected in 2008.
hopefully his leaving is not influenced by putin... but nevertheless he had a glorious career...