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It's always nice to see Kasparov, who could have easily been salty for losing to a machine and given up on chess forever, instead keep in touch with technology and science to make the game better.

He's at the age where you could have expected him to be willfully ignorant on these sorts of things, but he chose not to be. I will respect him for that.

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Kasparov was the first player to significantly profit from computer chess, selling many many chess computers I fantasised about owning as a child. He has always profited by playing and talking abut computers, often in ways that baffled those in the field:

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,9843...

(the 'insightful' pawn sac was suggested by most run of the mill computers, and seemed an obvious moves to strong humans at the time).

Sure, that was like 20+ years ago. I'm saying today, he has no reason to keep writing about chess and yet here we are.

He is a well known figure in chess. More people recognize his name in connection to chess than Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana combined! Of course he writes about chess - when he does people listen and assume he has something insightful to say (weather or not he does), thus when he wants money he needs to talk about chess. He can be (and reportedly is) a great inspirational speaker, but he is expected to talk about chess at some time in each speech.

do you really think Kasparov writes about chess when he runs out of money?

He's "retired". It was just last month he was competing in a Fischer Random event with many of the top players today. [1] And he still regularly provides commentary, above and beyond that of an informal observer, on various games and events.

[1] - https://www.uschesschamps.com/tags/2018-champions-showdown

> he has no reason to keep writing about chess

What does that mean?

edit: I mis-read the tone of your message, ignore.

Why would he give up on his job because he lost a match? He made tons of money from that match and he's still making money out of it today.

Also, he is retired from professional chess for a long time now.

He is still active in the chess community. What i meant was he could have become cynical and stopped acknowledging the game altogether now that he is rich, retired, and involved in politics.

It's not really that surprising. The chess world has embraced computers as much as they can be expected to. And Kasparov was world champion, which means people value his opinion about chess.

He is a genious in a broader sense. I am also following him on philosophical and political issues that he expresses his opinion

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