Resumo de Gary Kasparov Part Four

Retirement After winning the prestigious Linares tournament for the ninth time, Kasparov announced on March 10, 2005, that he would be retiring from serious competitive chess. He cited as the reason a lack of personal goals in the chess world (he commented when winning the Russian championship in 2004 that it had been the last major title he had never won outright) and expressed frustration at the failure to reunify the world championship.After his retirement, Kasparov turned to politics and created United Civil Front, a social movement whose main goal is to prevent Russia from returning to totalitarianism.Kasparov said he may play in some rapid events for fun, but intends to spend more time on his books (both the My Great Predecessors series (see below) and a book on the links between decision-making in chess and other areas of life), and will continue to involve himself in Russian politics, which he says is "headed down the wrong path." He is an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin. <3>On April 10, 2005, Kasparov was in Moscow at a promotional event when he was struck over the head with a chessboard he had just signed. The assailant was reported to have said "I admired you as a chess player, but you gave that up for politics," immediately before the attack.On August 22, 2006, in his first public chess games since his retirement, Kasparov played in the Lichthof Chess Champions Tournament, a blitz event played at the time control of 5 minutes per side and 3 second increments per move. Kasparov finished tied for first with Karpov, scoring 4.5/6. <4>In September 2006, he signed a partnership with games editor Jackpot Creations to develop his own line of non-electronic chess games. He contributed in designing the pieces and writing the instructions.Garry Kasparov vs Veselin Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999, Pirc Defense: General (B06) 1-0 When announcing his retirement, Kasparov commented that the Game against Topalov, played at the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee, was possibly the best of all his games. Anatoli Karpov vs Garry Kasparov, 16th game of the World Championship match, 1985, Sicilian (B44), 0-1 Before Kasparov played the above game, he considered this 1985 game his "supreme creative achievement." The readers of Chess Informant voted it the best game in the first 64 issues of that periodical. Anatoli Karpov vs Garry Kasparov, 10th round, Linares 1993, King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox, 7.Nge2 c6 (E86), 0-1 Another win by Kasparov, as Black, against his "eternal rival" Karpov.

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