Garry Kasparov

When Garry Kasparov won the World Chess Championship in 1985 at age twenty-two, he became the youngest ever winner. In 1997, he also became the first World Chess Champion to be defeated by a computer. He later wrote that his vanquisher “was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.” Kasparov is now an author and activist, and his books include How Life Imitates Chess and Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped.