Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster who was the 13th world chess champion. He is known for his attacking, solid, calculating, and emotional playing styles. In 1985, Garry Kasparov became the world's youngest chess player. In 2005, he left professional chess to become a leader in Russia's pro-democracy movement. His popular 1996-97 matches against IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer were instrumental in taking artificial intelligence and chess into the mainstream. With an emphasis on human-machine coordination, he is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford-Martin School. Since 1991, he has been a contributing writer to The Wall Street Journal and a political and human rights columnist. My Great Predecessors and Modern Chess are two acclaimed chess series he has written. Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped, written by Kasparov in 2015, is a mix of history, memoire, and current affairs research. Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins another one of Kasparov's great novels. It covers his battles with Deep Blue, his years of study and seminars on human-machine competition and teamwork, and his collaboration with the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute.