Communism built a society in which an insufferable goober like that is able to spend all their time playing a little game while pretending it's important. Those tAnKiE sCuM won WW2 so he could play with horsey pieces instead of working.
very
take ngl
Kasparov's grandfather was a staunch communist, but the young Kasparov gradually began to have doubts about the Soviet Union's political system at age 13 when he travelled abroad for the first time in 1976 to Paris for a chess tournament.[198] In 1981, at age 18, he read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, a copy of which he bought while abroad.
Goober
When you have to read a book to believe your country is evil because your lived experience doesn’t lead you to that conclusion whatsoever
>me, a burgerland comfortable labor aristocrat who has never faced real adversity in his life:
Thats's like becoming a death to America guy after reading Man in the High Castle
Many such cases.
he read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, a copy of which he bought while abroad.
Well there's your problem. You read a lying antisemitic, lying, trotskyite, saboteur, grifter, and CIA-payed fan-fiction writer's shitty-ass book
My guess is this douchebag was young, easily impressionable, and absolutely desperate to fit in socially with the rest of the people in the sport.
This is a bad recipe for socialists in sports, because sports people from capitalist countries are going to continue being the majority for a long time. They travel abroad, want to fit in and end up taking on the role of a pick-me. Everyone joining a new community is going to try to fit into that community and the advantage of capitalist hegemony is going to affect socialist sports people, especially because they're young.
Communist countries are deliberately isolated, and then western propaganda will go "see, they're missing out on our 18 different flavors of delicious Chef Boyardee!" and to a dumb teenager during soviet stagnation it would be pretty easy to fall for it.
Smart people are so dumb.
Gulag Gulagovich Gulagov is a pretty good username.
what is it with chess players and being reactionary shitbags
If you have the time and resources to get good at a game like chess and believe the IQ bullshit in chess culture, it's not that hard to end up a reactionary.
Yep, the elitism for sure. NGL, it's embarrassing that it's taken me this long to realize that a lot of reactionaries aren't "dumb sheeple", but complete asswipes that think they're better than everyone else. With the "chess is for smart people" bullshit, no wonder a lot of the top chess players have politics that match their pompous attitudes.
: "I am better than everyone else and therefore people like me deserve special treatment to ensure no rube 'steals' power that I earned by birthright."
Always been a boy's club, and not a good one. Just like golf. Patriarchal elite sport.
Woah, let's not go that far. Chess at least requires skill and has a lower carbon impact.
Che loved chess, if memory serves. It's a good game when removed from the established sport. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Botvinnik was the coolest chess grandmaster.
they're gamers
Death to America
Elite chess players can be strange too. Kasparov popularized this wacky conspiracy theory.
The new chronology is a pseudohistorical conspiracy theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later.
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Fomenko's historical ideas have been universally rejected by mainstream scientists, historians, and scholars, who brand them as pseudohistory, pseudoarchaeology, and pseudoscience, but were popularized by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Billington writes that the theory "might have quietly blown away in the wind tunnels of academia" if not for Kasparov's writing in support of it in the magazine Ogoniok.
Kasparov met Fomenko during the 1990s, and found that Fomenko's conclusions concerning certain subjects were identical to his own regarding the popular view (which is not the view of academics) that art and culture died during the Dark Ages and were not revived until the Renaissance.
Kasparov also felt it illogical that the Romans and the Greeks living under the banner of Byzantium could fail to use the mounds of scientific knowledge left them by Ancient Greece and Rome, especially when it was of urgent military use. Kasparov does not support the reconstruction part of the new chronology.
Kasparov also felt it illogical that the Romans and the Greeks living under the banner of Byzantium could fail to use the mounds of scientific knowledge left them by Ancient Greece and Rome, especially when it was of urgent military use.
brain and "dae le science progress bar" 
beliefs. Not even once.Fuck I just made a joke about that and you already posted it. I am the inferior poster :(
Kasparov literally genuinely doesn't know what year it is.
Remember when he got so pissy about not getting a say in where the world championship was going to be he started his own opposing chess organization? Lol
The only good chess move:
I only play this move in passing
Holy
hellboykisser
this is bongcloud erasure
the best opening, the best!
How one acquired power by fighting for the powerless was never explained
Smh guy hasnt made anything decent since Garrysmod
What are the politics of Garry Newman, when we're at it?
If Kasparov grew up in the west he'd be like a 1200 chess player.
Kasparov was virtually created by Botvinnik - "a staunch communist" in K's own words; K himself greatly benefitted from (and wouldn't exist without) the "oppressive shithole"; K was a member of communist party for too long - IIRC he was one of the last liberals to leave it in early nineties(!) which, somehow, didn't stop him to play the role of "freedom fighter"- the image western media exploited to 110% in late 80s.
never ask Kasparov on his position on Columbus or BLM movement
or what Elisha , Pope Gregory VII, Saint Basil of Caesarea, Emperor Jingzong, Euclides, Bacchus and Dionysius all have in common
or what Elisha , Pope Gregory VII, Saint Basil of Caesarea, Emperor Jingzong, Euclides, Bacchus and Dionysius all have in common
they all drank wine and received wheatcakes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)
Fomenko claims that the most probable prototype of the historical Jesus was Andronikos I Komnenos (allegedly AD 1152 to 1185), the emperor of Byzantium, known for his failed reforms, his traits and deeds reflected in 'biographies' of many real and imaginary persons.[18] The historical Jesus is a composite figure and reflection of the Old-Testament prophet Elisha (850–800 BC?), Pope Gregory VII (1020?–1085), Saint Basil of Caesarea (330–379), and even Li Yuanhao (also known as Emperor Jingzong or "Son of Heaven" – emperor of Western Xia, who reigned in 1032–1048), Euclides, Bacchus and Dionysius.[citation needed] Fomenko explains the seemingly vast differences in the biographies of these figures as resulting from difference in languages, points of view and time-frame of the authors of said accounts and biographies. He claims that the historical Jesus was born in Cape Fiolent, Crimea, on December 25, 1152 A.D. and was crucified on March 20, 1185 A.D., on Joshua's Hill, overlooking the Bosphorus.[19]
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Fomenko's historical ideas have been universally rejected by mainstream scientists, historians, and scholars, who brand them as pseudohistory, pseudoarchaeology, and pseudoscience,[38] but were popularized by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov.[39][40][41] Billington writes that the theory "might have quietly blown away in the wind tunnels of academia" if not for Kasparov's writing in support of it in the magazine Ogoniok.[42] Kasparov met Fomenko during the 1990s, and found that Fomenko's conclusions concerning certain subjects were identical to his own regarding the popular view (which is not the view of academics) that art and culture died during the Dark Ages and were not revived until the Renaissance. Kasparov also felt it illogical that the Romans and the Greeks living under the banner of Byzantium could fail to use the mounds of scientific knowledge left them by Ancient Greece and Rome, especially when it was of urgent military use. Kasparov does not support the reconstruction part of the new chronology.[43]
Another chin-rubbing liberal smuglord.
"Gratismut" is a german compound word made out of the two words "Gratis" (for free)" and "Mut" (courage) that describes the concept of taking a stand for or against something at a point in time when there's literally no discernible consequences left for doing it
Chess players are literally no better than gamers
Like all joking aside...that's basically all they are, right? There's a generation of movie and supervillain cliches building up this idea that being good at chess requires and/or unlocks some kind of deep mental super power but its all just pattern recognition and puzzle solving right? That's obviously not nothing and requires a degree of mental acuity and discipline to become a master at but imagine seriously caring about what Daigo Umehara thinks about Israel/Palestine or something and you can quickly see how ridiculous it is.
Less actually. The gimmick of chess is modeling and memorizing lots of plays. In fighting games you have to be humble and train to get stronger then be able to deeply understand your opponent to outplay them. Bonus because of historical accidents fighting games are heavily poc and working class. So you can get some terrible takes there but bet your average pro fgc probably has better politics than your average pro chess player.
Video games are actually fun
"In the past, I have said that there is real chess and women’s chess. Some people don’t like to hear this, but chess does not fit women properly. It’s a fight, you know? A big fight. It’s not for women. Sorry. She’s helpless if she has men’s opposition. I think this is a very simple logic. It’s the logic of a fighter, a professional fighter. Women are weaker fighters."
Kasparov is a reactionary moron, always has been.
Reddit brain from before Reddit even existed.
"Corporate wants you to find the difference between chess players and redditors"
Fuck to the yes yet again. You guys are family already. Fuck an A and the whole alphabet. LMAO
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Men doing things that aren't traditionally masculine always end up trying to make their thing out to be equivalent to war (see also business strategy/tactics). It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Fuck to the yes.
Damn, I didn't realize this guy was still alive. Figured the CIA would have knocked him just out of boredom.
Deep Blue was a tankie spy
noted dweeb garry kasparov posts another L
Death to America
Yet another proof that learning chess makes you skilled only in... chess.
Chess does have transferable skills like most games though, it just doesn't make you smarter at everything
whatever, Kasparov is so full of himself, he's not even that good at Chess. I could beat him if someone told me what the rules of chess are.
AFAIR chess is mostly memorization of "openings", that's why computers can be good at it pretty easily
Memorized openings only get you so far, and even then there are branches and deviations. There's a reason why repeat games are so rare.
Chess engines generally aren't very good at evaluating openings, while high-level human players can memorize the theory for a large number of openings (and engines can have them hard-coded). The reason engines are so much better than humans is the rest of the game.
Spoken like someone who's actually from Ukraine, not Russia
The oppressive Soviet leadership seized the rightful Russian territory of Crimea and gave it to Ukraine. Yet another example of Communist disregard for sovereignity.
Bitch, you were born in Azerbaijan and grew up in Minsk. What the fuck do you know about living in Russia?
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The sad part is that Belarus was and is a very nice part of Eastern Europe, conservative politics aside. Maybe not as nice as the Baltics, but for being a landlocked country they do ok for themselves.
That seems very expected.
Gary Kasparov and the Flying Penis
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I've always been a piece of scum since birth. Now I'm tankie scum. I feel so alive and ready to fight like the scum I've always been. Praise the load for giving me the gift of literacy.
My vest literally has "antifa commie scum" written on the back in white paint, along with 1312 and "kill nazis"
I like it
