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Join RDI! . Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation (). Author, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion

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    The paperback of Deep Thinking is now available! After a year of articles, podcasts, interviews, and lectures on the future of the human-machine relationship, I'm very happy so many people have enjoyed its optimistic and personal message.

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    17 hours ago

    That's Michael Khodarkovsky next to Garry, the president of the Kasparov Chess Foundation, organizer of the event. Record turnout, 1700 kids! Also in Chicago this weekend.

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    17 hours ago

    On one of the boards, the tournament director with the mic asked the player what first move he was considering and he said g4. And the entire room of hundreds of kids started chanting "g4! g4! g4!" (He went with e4. Boo.)

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    17 hours ago

    Watching sign books at the NY Scholastic Chess Championship in Brooklyn. "To Nadya? With a Y or I?" "I don't know!" ( She went with Y.)

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    The whole piece is a great read. But... YES... "The voters whom the Democrats most need to turn out are the ones most likely to be frightened off by controversy and radical ideas—from either side."

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  7. Reports of the death of American common sense are greatly exaggerated. 19% still too high.

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  8. I wrote, "Laws are only as strong as the character of the people charged with enforcing them." A corollary is that unenforced laws will be broken again.

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    Feb 2

    Best thing I have read in a long time on this moment (in both the UK and US) and how to fight it. Kasparov: A Popular Front to Stop Trump via

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  10. My warning in my article this week was to show how both extremes alienate the moderate majority while firing up their bases, and the historical dangers of that trend. Especially as the electoral college favors Trump in that scenario.

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  11. They surged in 2016 on many of the same issues, with some of the same voters. (And many diametrically opposed ones!) Many of the issues they ran on were real and relevant, others were, and are, mostly demagoguery, either utopian (Bernie) or dystopian (Trump).

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  12. Don't build straw men out of every reasonable lesson. E.g., pointing out that the success of Sanders & Trump in the same year isn't saying they are the same, or equally bad. But they both represent the powerful new populist strain.

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  13. Thank you, but *retired* chessplayer! No historical comparison is ever exact; the goal is to learn about human behavior, methods, and warning signs. Opposing extremes against the middle is old and it works.

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    "Russian democracy may be gone, but the lessons of its rise and fall are more important now than ever. I just never imagined that they would apply so well, and so soon, to two lodestars of democracy, the UK and my new home of the USA." :

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    + 😏(Subtweeting the government.) "Reasonable leaders are expected to produce results, a bar that is constantly lowered and eventually discarded altogether by autocrats. They blame the opposition, the media, minorities, foreign enemies—anyone but themselves."

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    Don't be surprised, be angry. Show all of these GOP Senators treating Trump like a king that American democracy still works by voting them out. Every last one of them.

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    Jan 31

    "Trump’s reelection in 2020 would validate his political methods and have a long-lasting impact on America and the world." for

    Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate will send a message to the country and the world; the only question is what that message will be. No matter what Trump does, his GOP defenders will never abandon him if he looks politically invincible, and he will spawn more imitators, both at home and abroad. Back in 1974, Richard Nixon’s resignation in the face of impeachment proceedings so stunned Leonid Brezhnev and the Sov
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  18. To serve "the ill-defined interests of the State" in Soviet-speak, the GOP has opened the floodgates to Trump's corruption and foreign interference in US elections. Willingly.

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  19. The GOP wouldn't allow witnesses because all the evidence would have hurt them politically when they inevitably voted to acquit anyway. Now it will come out in public and they will say they didn't know. Cynical and reprehensible.

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    Jan 31

    BIOMETRIC DATA Rasha from makes a very important point here about the proportionality of biometric data analysis. How much is really necessary to ID someone.

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  21. The difference with a Soviet show trial is GOP members pathetically trying to explain why there will be no justice and how it’s not their fault instead of bluntly admitting the Leader and the Party are always right. It’s not an improvement.

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