chapotraphouse

Communism built a society in which an insufferable goober like that is able to spend all their time playing a little game while pretending it's important. Those tAnKiE sCuM won WW2 so he could play with horsey pieces instead of working.

Kasparov's grandfather was a staunch communist, but the young Kasparov gradually began to have doubts about the Soviet Union's political system at age 13 when he travelled abroad for the first time in 1976 to Paris for a chess tournament.[198] In 1981, at age 18, he read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, a copy of which he bought while abroad.

Goober

Gulag Gulagovich Gulagov is a pretty good username.

what is it with chess players and being reactionary shitbags

Elite chess players can be strange too. Kasparov popularized this wacky conspiracy theory.

New chronology (Fomenko)

The new chronology is a pseudohistorical conspiracy theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later.

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Fomenko's historical ideas have been universally rejected by mainstream scientists, historians, and scholars, who brand them as pseudohistory, pseudoarchaeology, and pseudoscience, but were popularized by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Billington writes that the theory "might have quietly blown away in the wind tunnels of academia" if not for Kasparov's writing in support of it in the magazine Ogoniok.

Kasparov met Fomenko during the 1990s, and found that Fomenko's conclusions concerning certain subjects were identical to his own regarding the popular view (which is not the view of academics) that art and culture died during the Dark Ages and were not revived until the Renaissance.

Kasparov also felt it illogical that the Romans and the Greeks living under the banner of Byzantium could fail to use the mounds of scientific knowledge left them by Ancient Greece and Rome, especially when it was of urgent military use. Kasparov does not support the reconstruction part of the new chronology.

Kasparov literally genuinely doesn't know what year it is.

The only good chess move:

Smh guy hasnt made anything decent since Garrysmod

How one acquired power by fighting for the powerless was never explained

being good at playing games doesn't make you informed about the world

i know a kid who kicks ass at roblox but i'm not gonma ask her about astrophysics

If Kasparov grew up in the west he'd be like a 1200 chess player.

Kasparov was virtually created by Botvinnik - "a staunch communist" in K's own words; K himself greatly benefitted from (and wouldn't exist without) the "oppressive shithole"; K was a member of communist party for too long - IIRC he was one of the last liberals to leave it in early nineties(!) which, somehow, didn't stop him to play the role of "freedom fighter"- the image western media exploited to 110% in late 80s.

Another chin-rubbing liberal smuglord.

never ask Kasparov on his position on Columbus or BLM movement

or what Elisha , Pope Gregory VII, Saint Basil of Caesarea, Emperor Jingzong, Euclides, Bacchus and Dionysius all have in common

"Gratismut" is a german compound word made out of the two words "Gratis" (for free)" and "Mut" (courage) that describes the concept of taking a stand for or against something at a point in time when there's literally no discernible consequences left for doing it

Chess players are literally no better than gamers

"In the past, I have said that there is real chess and women’s chess. Some people don’t like to hear this, but chess does not fit women properly. It’s a fight, you know? A big fight. It’s not for women. Sorry. She’s helpless if she has men’s opposition. I think this is a very simple logic. It’s the logic of a fighter, a professional fighter. Women are weaker fighters."

Kasparov is a reactionary moron, always has been.

Deep Blue was a tankie spy

noted dweeb garry kasparov posts another L

Death to America

Damn, I didn't realize this guy was still alive. Figured the CIA would have knocked him just out of boredom.

Yet another proof that learning chess makes you skilled only in... chess.

whatever, Kasparov is so full of himself, he's not even that good at Chess. I could beat him if someone told me what the rules of chess are.

Spoken like someone who's actually from Ukraine, not Russia