His love of chess fostered his awareness of politics: He began traveling internationally for chess matches at age 13, affording him the opportunity to “see the differences” between the USSR and capitalist countries. Such prowess on the global stage made him a symbol of Soviet pride back home-the sport was an “important tool to demonstrate an intellectual superiority of the communist regime over decadent West,” Kasparov says-even as he personally came to detest the communist system. In the 1980s, the half-Jewish, half-Armenian Kasparov won international celebrity after becoming, at 22, the youngest men’s world chess champion in history.
So, we don’t know the intentions of the opponent, but we know the resources our opponent can use to do us harm.” “You know what I have I know what you have. It’s 100 percent transparency,” Kasparov says.
The game of chess is game of strategy of course, you have many opportunities to show your tactical skills, but foremost, it’s about strategy. “When I hear phrases like ‘Putin plays chess, Obama plays checkers,’ or moreover, ‘Trump plays chess,’ I feel I have my duty to defend the game that I have been playing for decades. Please, Kasparov says: Stop calling this chess. … he way he communicates with the world definitely shows lack of any strategical calculations.” Trump, Kasparov says, “operates in really a short-term environment. “You can lose the war even if you have overwhelming advantage-militarily, economically, technologically-if you don’t recognize you are at war,” Kasparov says. But on some level, they also understood the strategic threat Putin posed-something he doesn’t think Trump grasps. Bush and Barack Obama got Putin wrong, and inadvertently helped the Russian president expand his power. That’s a change from prior administrations. “But in any game of wits, I would bet on Putin, unfortunately.”įor the past 10 months, Kasparov has watched Trump’s interactions with the Russian president, and he thinks Trump is playing exactly into what the Kremlin wants while apparently refusing to understand Putin’s goals. “Both of them despise playing by the rules, so it’s who will cheat first,” Kasparov told me in an interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast.
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