Watch: Kasparov: chess rebel (ARTE)

Youngest-ever undisputed world champion in 1985 at age 22 by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov

Forty years after Garry Kasparov became the youngest world chess champion of all time, this film traces the extraordinary life and career of a golden child of the Soviet Union.

Thanks to his outstanding genius, charisma, and his resistance to the communist regime, Kasparov has become a global icon.

 

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