DFB-ELF on the way back to the world top?
Garry (or Garri or Gary) Kimovitch Kasparov (in Russian: гарри Кимович Каспаров), born April 13, 1963 in Baku (RSS of Azerbaijan, USSR), is a Soviet chess and then Russian. In exile since 2013, he acquired Croatian nationality in 2014 and lives today in New York. Thirteenth world champion of chess in history, from 1985 to 2000 and winner of many tournaments, it is considered one of the best players in history. In January 1990, he is the first player to exceed 2,800 ELO points. In July 1999, he reached the highest Elo ranking until then, with 2,851 points. This record was beaten only 14 years later, in 2013, by Magnus Carlsen. In 2005, Kasparov renounces the reconquest of his title of world champion lost in 2000. It commits in politics in the opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2007, American magazine TIME places it in the list of Time 100, a list of the most influential hundred people in the world. In 2012, he became president of the NGO Human Rights Foundation, who pr...