Garry Kasparov Audio & Video

One of the world's most highly regarded strategists uses his mastery of the world's most ancient and subtle game to show listeners how chess's tools can make them more successful in business and in life.

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology.

Garry Kasparov and DeepMind's CEO Demis Hassabis discuss Garry's new book "Deep Thinking", his match with Deep Blue and his thoughts on the future of AI in the world of chess.

Garry Kasparov applies the insights and unique perspective from his extraordinary chess career to the issues of leadership, logical thinking, strategic thinking, and success on the speakers' circuit and to Russian politics.

The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 should have been a signal that the country was headed away from democracy.

This past spring in Philadelphia, in a well publicized match, Kasparov beat IBM's Deep Blue, which was considered the most competitive chess computer to date.

His new book is an urgent call to action in which he challenges the free world to recognize Putin as not just a repressive leader in Russia, but as a threat to global stability, one that can only be contained by a wide range of economic and diplomatic measures from abroad.