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Garry Kasparov is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, he dominated the chess world, ranking world number 1 for most of those 19 years. While he has many historic matches against human chess players, in the long arc of history he may be remembered for his match again a machine, IBM's Deep Blue. His initial victories and eventual loss to Deep Blue captivated the imagination of the world of what role Artificial Intelligence systems may play in our civilization's future. That excitement inspired an entire generation of AI researchers, including myself, to get into the field. Garry is also a pro-democracy political thinker and leader, a fearless human-rights activist, and author of several books including How Life Imitates Chess which is a book on strategy and decision-making, Winter Is Coming which is a book articulating his opposition to the Putin regime, and Deep Thinking which is a book the role of both artificial intelligence and human intelligence in defining our future.

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If you could go back, just look at the entirety of your life you accomplished, more than most humans will ever do.

If you could go back and relive a single moment in your life, what would that moment be?

in my life when I think about what could be done differently, but.

No, experience happiness and joy and pride,

So I just, it's the, I know that at the end of the day, I believe in the butterfly effect.

So it's the, I knew moments where I could, now, if I'm there at that point in 89 in 93 pick up a year I could improve my actions by not doing this stupid thing But then how do you know that I will have all other accomplishments?

I just, I'm afraid that we just have to just follow this, if you may call it wisdom or forest gump, you know?

It's a box of chocolate and you don't know what's inside, but you have to go 1 by 1.

So it's the, I'm happy with who I am and where I am today.

And I am very proud, not only with my chess accomplishments, but that I made this transition.

And since I left chess, I built my own reputation that had some influence on the game of chess, but it's not directly derived from the game.

I'm grateful for my wife, who helped me to build this life.

That's why I said I made mistakes in my life.

But, and by the way, I'm close with 2 kids from my previous marriages.

So that's the, I mean, I managed to sort of to balance my life.

So we have our 2 kids born here in New York.

Sometimes I wish I could limit my engagement in many other things that are still taking time and energy.

And as long as I can feel that I have energy, I have strength, I have passion to make the difference, I'm happy.


Speaker 0: If you could go back, just look at the entirety of your life you accomplished, more than most humans will ever do. If you could go back and relive a single moment in your life, what would that moment be?

Speaker 1: There are moments

Speaker 0: in my life when I think about what could be done differently, but. No, experience happiness and joy and pride,

Speaker 1: just to touch once again. I made many mistakes in my life. So I just, it's the, I know that at the end of the day, I believe in the butterfly effect. So it's the, I knew moments where I could, now, if I'm there at that point in 89 in 93 pick up a year I could improve my actions by not doing this stupid thing But then how do you know that I will have all other accomplishments? I just, I'm afraid that we just have to just follow this, if you may call it wisdom or forest gump, you know?

It's the life is this, you know? It's a box of chocolate and you don't know what's inside, but you have to go 1 by 1. So it's the, I'm happy with who I am and where I am today. And I am very proud, not only with my chess accomplishments, but that I made this transition. And since I left chess, I built my own reputation that had some influence on the game of chess, but it's not directly derived from the game.

I'm grateful for my wife, who helped me to build this life. We actually married in 2005. It was my third marriage. That's why I said I made mistakes in my life. But, and by the way, I'm close with 2 kids from my previous marriages.

So that's the, I mean, I managed to sort of to balance my life. And here, you know, I live in New York. So we have our 2 kids born here in New York. It's new life, and it's busy. Sometimes I wish I could limit my engagement in many other things that are still taking time and energy.

But life is exciting. And as long as I can feel that I have energy, I have strength, I have passion to make the difference, I'm happy. You

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