| farah ashraf |
A Russian chess player born on April 13, 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (formerly the Soviet Union), he is a grandmaster, the thirteenth world chess champion, a writer and a political activist. Some experts consider him the greatest player in history, and he is considered one of the world's geniuses with an IQ of 190. He learned chess from an early age by watching his parents solve chess puzzles. He joined the Mikhail Botvinnik School at the age of ten, and was a student of Vladimir Makogonov. In 1976, he won the Soviet Union Junior Championship at the age of 13, and repeated the same achievement the following year. In 1978, he was awarded the title of chess master after winning the Sokolsky Memorial Tournament in Minsk. He won the World Junior Championship in 1980 in Dortmund and was awarded the grandmaster title. The following year, he won the Soviet Union Chess Championship and repeated the achievement in 1988. He won the Chess Olympiad eight times; Four with the Soviet Union (1980, 1982, 1986, 1988) and four with Russia (1992, 1994, 1996, 2002).
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