Chess

Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, and former World Chess Champion. Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered to be the greatest player that ever lived. In 1997, during a highly publicized match, he became the first world champion to lose a match to a computer when he lost to the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. In 2007, Garry Kasparov wrote "How Life Imitates Chess", a book which examines the real-life lessons he learned during his reign as a chess grandmaster.