He was born on April 13, 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR, to a Jewish Russian father and an Armenian mother. He started playing chess at the age of 6; At the age of 13 he was Soviet youth champion, and he won his first international tournament at the age of 16, in 1979.
he became an international grandmaster in 1980. From 1973 to 1978 he studied under former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik.
In 1993, Kasparov and the English grandmaster Nigel Short left FIDE and formed a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association (PCA). In response, FIDE stripped him of the world champion title; Kasparov he defeated Short that same year becoming the PCA world champion. In 1995 he successfully defended his PCA title against Viswanathan Anand of India; The PCA was dissolved in 1996.
That same year, Kasparov defeated a powerful IBM chess computer, known as Deep Blue, in a match that attracted worldwide attention. Kasparov and the Deep Blue team of programmers agreed to have a rematch in 1997. Deep Blue’s intelligence improved, and the machine prevailed. Kasparov resigned in the final six-game match after 19 moves, handing the victory to Deep Blue. In 2000 Kasparov lost a 16-game championship match against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia.
Kasparov He retired from competitions in 2005, although he did not stop getting involved in the world of chess. In particular, he produced an acclaimed series of books, in My Great Predecessors (2003-06), which encompassed all the world chess champions from Wilhelm Steinitz to Karpov, as well as many other great players. In Deep Thought: Where Artificial Intelligence and Human Creativity Ends (2017), offered details of his 1997 departure with Deep Blue while praising technological progress. After his retirement, he continued to participate in exhibition matches and coach other players who, even today, are active in competitive chess.