Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov takes Brut through his CV

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He lost a match for the first time ever ... to a computer.   From being a chess champion to spending time in jail for his political activism, Garry Kasparov takes Brut through his resume.

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00:00So my chance of surviving there probably were better were worse than the for Han Solo to survive in asteroid field in implies strikes back

00:06So that's the it's the c-3po if you remember telling him the chance of surviving in asteroid field is

00:113,000 720 to 1 I was much you know much worse than that

00:24So what I know from my mother that I was born quarter to midnight

00:28and

00:30Since she was a bit suspicious about number 13. She didn't know it would be like a number

00:35She was waiting you know just counting minutes. Hoping it will be the 14th, but no it was the 13th

00:40Yes, you know 15 minutes to midnight

00:45That was the year when

00:47after

00:49intense consultations was in the family so

00:52My family change of my family name change from Weinstein my father's name to my mother's name

00:58Kasparova there were a number of reasons one of course natural reason that is just being a talented player with a Jewish name in the

01:05Soviet Union at a time where they eventually got Russian champion

01:09Anatoly Karpov would be an

01:11extra

01:12Extra challenge, but another reason equally important was that I grew up with my grandfather

01:18Who had three daughters never had a son, and he wanted you know somebody to carry name Kasparov late summer 1975 I became Gary Kasparov

01:28I became the youngest

01:31Soviet junior champion under age 18 it was a big big triumph

01:49Where to play unlimited number of games until one player

01:55would win six

01:57Draws not counted and

01:59Considering that that's both me and Karpov you know lost one or two games a year

02:04So people thought oh that's could be a long match. Yeah, they were right

02:08It was a very very long match, but for a wrong reason so was there because after nine games

02:13I was I was trailing four to nothing

02:15So my chance of surviving there probably were better were worse than for Han Solo to survive in asteroid field in Empire Strikes Back

02:22The mere fact I survived

02:24Trailing four to nothing against world champion that was probably my biggest accomplishment

02:39In 1985 he was still you know like old Karpov, and that's why

02:45despite his

02:47tough resistance almost desperate resistance, so he was trailing most of the match and

02:54Had to win the last game by being a point behind me, but but he failed

02:59I don't want a beautiful game and and became the youngest world champion in history, so that's 1985

03:16Now 25 years later almost quarter century later

03:19I think it was a blessing because I was a part of something so important

03:23But now everyone wants to know about it, and somehow I became an authority in

03:28analyzing human-machine relations

03:332007 was as you know

03:36Probably one of the peaks of my political activities in Russia though

03:38I always tell people that they should not be mistaken by calling it politics because in Putin's Russia

03:45Politics was very different from France or Britain or America

03:49We were not there you know running for office. You know it's this as people say oh, it's this it's up

03:55You are trying to win elections. I say no we're not trying to win elections. We're trying to have elections

04:01so that was very very different and

04:03When people say oh you run for president

04:05No, I did not run for president because nobody could run the president without Kremlin's permission

04:10I was trying to make a statement by filling the papers and you know having rallies now

04:15It ended up just you know for a few days in jail many of my

04:19Supporters have been beaten you know and and of course you know there was no chance that my name could appear on the ballot

04:25So that's why you know I'm really annoyed when people say oh, but you run, and you couldn't couldn't succeed now of course

04:30I couldn't succeed because in Putin's Russia elections. You know just you know was was it was a charade and

04:36And we have been warning all back then in 2007 so that while Putin was our problem eventually it will be everybody's problem

04:44Yeah, and 2007 it's so you know it was a very tough challenge because you know spending even a few days in jail

04:51I mean for the world champion was was was a test. I didn't like it, but I mean I knew that

04:57So that's that was a new game. I had to play

05:03Thanks God nothing happened to me in 2013 because I left Russia so has that's that's exactly the reason I left so for for nothing to

05:10happen as a

05:12Staunch opponent of Russian dictator

05:14And I do whatever I can to to reveal the true colors of Putin regime and the dangers to the free world

05:21They all these things are connected whether it's chess whether it's human rights

05:25democracy

05:27AI

05:28Cybersecurity it's the when I see a chance for me to make a difference to make a contribution personal contribution. I mean

05:42You

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