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Originally Posted by svin
In case you didn't know, Kasparov is Jewish.
"Garry Kasparov was born Garry Vajnshtejn (the given name analogous to English "Harry" and surname analogous to German "Weinstein" or "Feinstein") in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR to an Armenian mother and a Jewish father".
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The only chess player whose jewish that I like is Bobby Fischer. He got in trouble with American authorities for being an anti-semite, so they sought his extradition because he played a match against Boris Spassky at St. Stefan hotel in Montenegro during the sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro. It's a shame that the Montenegrin government refused to give him citizenship due to U.S. pressure. Instead he's a citizen of Iceland.
This is him when he was arrested under the extradition order in Japan:
