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Garry Kasparov

A Promotional event

Sunday Apr 10, 2005
Moscow, Russia

On 10 April 2005, Kasparov was in Moscow at a promotional event when he was struck over the head with a chessboard he had just signed. The assailant was reported to have said "I admired you as a chess player, but you gave that up for politics" immediately before the attack.


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