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He was born as Garri Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan. He first began the serious study of chess after he came across a chess problem set up by his parents and proposed a solution to it. When he was 12, his father died, and he adopted his mother's surname. His mother Klara is an Armenian woman whose surname is Kasparian, and "Kasparov" is the slavicized version of this name.
In deep concentration during the Corus 2001 tournament, Garry Kasparov adopts his favorite posture, crouched over the table with hands on his forehead.
Kasparov trained at Mikhail Botvinnik's chess school. His talent and potential were clear when he won the Soviet Junior Championship at Tbilisi in 1976, scoring 7 points out of 9. He was 13 at the time. He repeated the feat the following year, demolishing the field with a score of 8.5/9.
In 1978 Kasparov participated in the Sokolsky Memorial tournament at MinskFor things named after Minsk, see Minsk (disambiguation Minsk ( Belarusian: , ; Russian: ) (population 1. 8 million) is the capital of Belarus and headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States. During 1919 1991 Minsk was the capital of the Byelor. He had been invited as an exception but took the first place and became a masterA chess master is a chess player of such skill that he can nearly always beat players of the general strength found in chess clubs, who themselves typically can nearly always prevail against the level of play generally possessed by the average player in t. Kasparov has repeatedly said that this event was a turning point in his life, and that it convinced him to choose chess as his career. "I will remember the Sololsky Memorial as long as I live", he wrote. He has also said that after the victory, he thought he had a very good shot at the World Championship.
Garry's rise up the FIDE ranking order was nothing short of phenomenal. Starting with an oversight by the Russian Chess FederationThe Russian Chess Federation is the officially recognized arm of the FIDE in Russia. External link (Russian)., Garry Kasparov participated in a Grandmaster tournament in Banja LukaBanja Luka MayorDragoljub Davidovic Area Total 93. 9 mi²) Population City ( 2002) Metro ( 2002) 196,500. Time zoneCentral European: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 44°78' N17°19' E Banja Luka is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a population while still unrated (the federation thought it was a junior tournament). He emerged from this top-class encounter with a provisional rating of 2595, enough to catapult him into the top group of chess players.
The next year, 19801980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. Events January-February January 1- April 1 National steel strike in United Kingdom January 1 Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother January 5 He, he won the World Junior Chess ChampionshipThe World Junior Chess Championship is an Under 20 event (players must have been under 20 years old on the 1st of January in the year of competition). Winner list 2003 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyaz ( Azerbaijan) 2002 Aronian, Lev ( Armenia) 2001 Acs, Peter ( Hun in DortmundDortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Population: 587,288 (1 January 2004). The River Ruhr flow to the south of the city and the Datteln-Hamm Canal to the north. The Dortmund-Ems Canal termin, West Germany.
It was clear from early on that Garry had the playing strength to match the then current world champion Anatoly Karpov — a firm favourite of the Russian Chess Federation. But first Garry had to pass the test of the Candidates Tournament to qualify.
His first Candidates match was against Alexander Beliavsky, from which Kasparov emerged surprisingly victorious (Beliavsky was an exceptionally tough opponent). Politics threatened Kasparov's next match against Viktor Korchnoi which was scheduled to be played in Pasadena, California. Korchnoi defected from Russia in the late 1970s, and was at that time the strongest non-Soviet player. Various political manoeuvres prevented Kasparov from playing Korchnoi, and he forfeited the match.
This was resolved by Korchnoi's generous gesture of allowing the match to be replayed in London. Kasparov won.
Kasparov's Candidates final match was against the resurgent Vassily Smyslov (who won his match against Huebner by the spin of a roulette wheel!). Smyslov was the seventh world champion in 1957, but later years saw his willingness to fight for wins greatly diminished. This posed no problems for the youngster from Baku who registered a comfortable win.
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