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Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
October 5, 2008 Computers can finally “think” for themselves, or can they? By Justin Montgomery Not since the IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue” beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, have computers been regarded as being able to “think” at a human’s capacity. Very soon, six computers are about to converse with human interrogators in an experiment to prove once and for all that they can. How...
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Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
I am honored to share a symposium with Garry Kasparov, among other notables, including Robert Reich, Jagdish Bhagwati, Bernard Henri-Levy, Michael Novak, and others. My answer to the question is "No, on balance" and here is my opening bit: In...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
IN nine days, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Viswanathan Anand of India begin a match in Bonn, Germany, that may finally end the confusion over who is the true world champion. The confusion began in 1993 when Garry Kasparov split from the world...
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Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Grandmaster makes a move on the Kremlin September 30, 2008 Garry Kasparov’s greatest opponent is Russian political apathy, says viv groskop When 5,000 Russians gathered in St Petersburg at the weekend to protest against Putin's presidency, one of the leaders of the 'March of the Discontented' was a man we are more used to seeing glaring across a chessboard - grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Famous for...
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UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Garry Kasparov, the highest-ranked chess player in the world, is taking his game uptown to the Harlem Children’s Zone Chess Festival on Sunday, September 28th. As part of the celebration, Kasparov will play 20 games simultaneously against student players from Harlem. Hosted by the Harlem Children’s Zone, the festival will run from 10 a.m. to 5 [...]
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
GARRY Kasparov put a lot of himself into his latest book. Finally. "Kasparov vs. Karpov, 1975-1985" is the seventh in his series on the history of world championship matches, and it departs from the clinical, often colorless, tone of the earlier...
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Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
On China, Obama Bias, Drilling, Etc. by Ross Mackenzie townhall.com Former world chess champion and Russian pro-democracy activist Garry Kasparov: “Russia’s invasion (of Georgia) was the direct result of nearly a decade of Western helplessness and delusion. Inexperienced and cautious in the international arena at the start of his reign in 2000, (Vladimir) Putin soon learned he could get away with...
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full and free download (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Kasparov Chessmate Portable |10MB Kasparov Chessmate is a chess playing computer program by The Learning Company for which Garry Kasparov is co-credited as game designer. Kasparov also makes an 'appearance' as the last computer profile which has to be defeated in order to win the 'Kasparov Chess Club' tournament.
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Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Humans Are No Match For Computers In Chess World By SHELBY LYMAN September 9, 2008 For the public at large, the issue of man vs. machine was settled in 1997 when Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 . But top chess players were not convinced. They argued that Kasparov had inexplicably collapsed in the final game after missing earlier opportunities to pile up a lead in the match. Although...
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Free Frank Warner (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Talk about international pariah. Garry Kasparov says that, for the first time since 1856, Russia is without an ally. Even China supports democratic Georgia's territorial integrity, but China won't go too far with its condemnation because it wants to invade...
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Robert Lindsay (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist and Inventor, 220 IQ Voltaire, Writer, 190 IQ Garry Kasparov, Chess grandmaster, 190 IQ Galileo Galilei, Physicist/Astronomer, 185 IQ Descartes, Philosopher/Mathematician, 180 IQ Immanuel Kant, Philosopher, 175 IQ Plato, Philosopher, 170 IQ Charles Darwin, Naturalist, 165 IQ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer, 165 IQ Albert Einstein, Physicist, 160 IQ Robert Lindsay, Journalist,...
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Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Garry Kasparov[PV] (Former Chess Champion and Candidate for Prime Minister in Russia) Russia's invasion of Georgia reminded me of a conversation I had three years ago in Moscow with a high-ranking European Union official. Russia was much freer then, but President Vladimir Putin's onslaught against democratic rights was already underway. "What would it take," I asked, "for Europe to stop treating Putin...
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Free Frank Warner (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Garry Kasparov, the former chess great and thorn in Vladimir Putin's side, says Sen. John McCain was the only Western leader who had Putin's aggressive plans figured out. Our other elected officials just let Putin fuel up for his democracy...
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La Russophobe (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Garry Kasparov, writing in the Wall Street Journal : Berlin is an ideal place for an American president, even a would-be president, to speak to the world about freedom and shared values. Barack Obama's recent visit evoked the famous speeches of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan that defended the U.S. stance against the Soviet Union and tyranny in Eastern Europe. Both the Berlin Wall and the Soviet...
