Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov is the chairman and founder of the Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI), which publishes The Next Move as well as the Vice-Chairman of the World Liberty Congress. Widely considered the greatest chess-player of all time, Garry became the under-18 chess champion of the USSR at the age of 12 and the world under-20 champion at 17. He came to international fame at the age of 22 as the youngest world chess champion in history in 1985. His famous matches against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1996-97 were key to bringing artificial intelligence and chess into the mainstream.

Today he is an anti-tyranny crusader, one of the most prominent enemies of Putin, and an activist for freedom around the world. He is the author of the 2015 book: Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped.