Chess master Kasparov to retire
Former world champion Garry Kasparov has announced that he is to retire from competitive chess.
He made the surprise announcement after winning a prestigious tournament in Spain for the ninth time.
"I will continue to play chess because it is a lot of fun, but no longer on a professional level," he said.
The 41-year-old said he had made the decision because of the intense pressure which he had been under over recent years.
The chess grandmaster, a leading critic of Mr Putin, heads a group of top Russian liberals who have joined forces to keep Vladimir Putin from staying in the Kremlin after 2008.
His group, called Committee 2008: Free Choice, has criticised Mr Putin's control over Russia's parliament and the country's media, and what it calls the "flat-out falsification of the last election's results".
They have vowed to ensure a new president is elected in 2008.
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Started by Talon , Mar 11 2005 07:36 PM
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Posted 11 March 2005 - 07:36 PM
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 12:22 PM
Hey Talon, why don't you go for his title! 
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 02:47 PM
Because anyone with experience in chess would kill me in 7 moves
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -Plato
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Posted 26 March 2005 - 09:51 AM
MAYBE HA WANTS TO GIVE WAY TO OTHERS......GOOD.
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I made a spelling mistake and sold my soul to santa.
Posted 26 March 2005 - 10:37 AM
Its Chess..... not a team sport...lol
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