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What do the two best Russian chess players in history think of President Putin? Few Russian celebrities have spoken out against Putin over the past 20 years, with even his political rivals taking the risk of assassination. Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov have both experienced the rise of the Russian president and his stay since winning the first election in 1999. The video analyzes the political path he took after retiring from chess, as well as his current situation. Country.
Leontxo García, a EL PAS journalist specializing in chess, who interviewed both players years ago, explains his position regarding Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Chess was one of the flags of the Soviet Union during the Cold War and even after its collapse. Russian chess players Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov maintained a long competition to be number one in the sport around the world during the late 1980s and 1990s. Karpov was born in 1951 and went on to play ten finals for the world title. He was champion for ten years between 1975 and 1985, the year he was succeeded by Kasparov. He was born in the country which is now the country of Azerbaijan. He was the world champion from 1985 to 1993. After the Chernobyl disaster, the two decided to donate $650,000 from the 1986 world title award to the Victims Aid Foundation.
But, were they politically significant? What happened to them during the government of the Russian leader? The analysis of this video focuses on his trajectory within the world of chess and the political symbolism of the confrontation between the two masters of the game.
