Current World Chess Champion GARRY KASPAROV. (CASS-par-ov). This past spring in Philadelphia in a well publisized match, Kasparov beat IBM's Deep Blue, which was considered the most competitve chess computer to date. Kasparov recently has been promoting chess as a learning tool in schools. Recently in New York, Kasparov told grade school students that chess is a positive alternative to video games. These words, come as Kasparov promotes his new chess computer game "Talking Coach Kasparov" by Saitek. It has the unique feature of having an electronic chess tutor talk to you when you're in trouble. Kasparov was born in Moscow and was an outspoken critic of communism during the Cold War. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Kasparov in addition to playing world class competitive chess he is also the co-founder of "Democratic Russia" a political movment that supported Boris Yeltsin's election as President.
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