In 1999, world chess champion Garry Kasparov challenged the world to a game in the Microsoft Zone, and the world put up an amazing fight! Millions of participants and tens of thousands of players logged in to follow what turned into one of the most amazing chess games of all time. Read world number one Garry Kasparov’s own day-to-day account of the most high-profile chess game in history in this diary-format, hard cover edition of Kasparov Against the World. With a forward written by Bill Gates and a diagram for every move, Kasparov highlights the critical points in the game as Kasparov and the World struggled through four months of fascinating game play. The true behind-the-scenes account of an event now hailed as among the most memorable and powerful moments in chess and Internet history.
Garry Kasparov grew up in Baku, Azerbaijan (USSR) and became the youngest ever world chess champion in 1985 at the age of 22. He held that title until 2000. He retired from professional chess in March 2005 to found the United Civil Front in Russia, and has dedicated himself to establishing free and fair elections in his homeland. A longtime contributing editor at The Wall Street Journal, Kasparov travels around the world to address corporations and business audiences on strategy and leadership, and he appears frequently in the international media to talk about both chess and politics. When not traveling he divides his time between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
