Garry Kasparov, often considered the greatest chess player
of all time, sees life as a battle between opposites: good and evil, or
freedom and totalitarianism.
Upon retiring from chess in 2005, Kasparov dedicated himself to an
all-out war with whomever he considers as belonging to the “forces of
evil”—for instance, totalitarian regimes like China, Iran, and North
Korea, which threaten the “forces of good.”
In Kasparov’s view, the greatest enemy of the free world is Russian
leader Vladimir Putin, the subject of his 2015 book, “Winter Is Coming.”
From Kasparov’s perspective, there is no gray area: If you don’t belong
to the good side, you must therefore belong to the “Dark Side.”
In 2011, Kasparov succeeded the late Vaclav Havel as head of the New
York-based Human Rights Foundation. From that bastion, Kasparov looks to
fight for the forces of freedom and human rights, bringing to the
battle a strategic sense finely honed as a chess grandmaster and world
chess champion.
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