adminThe Russian grandmaster arrived around midday and went to Newlands where he had a meeting with president of the Zimbabwe Chess Federation, Charles Kuwaza.
According to Caleb Dengu, one of the people co-ordinating the visit, the 50-year old Kasparov was to meet officials from the Sport and Recreation Commission before leaving for South Africa later in the day.
“We are very excited that Gary Kasparov has included Zimbabwe on part of his programme on the visit to Africa.
“This is a very brief and hectic schedule in which he wants to introduce his project –the Kasparov Chess Foundation – in Africa.
“One of its objectives is to teach chess among children at schools,” said Dengu.
The Kasparov Chess Foundation Africa was launched in 2012.
The project aims to facilitate co-operation between international partners who will assist with the development of the game of chess across the African continent with the establishment of chess centres of excellence.
Kasparov became the youngest undisputed world chess champion in 1985 at the age of 22 by defeating then champion Anatoly Karpov.
In 1989 he defeated the chess computer Deep Thought in a two-game match.
Kasparov announced his retirement from professional chess on 10 March 2005 so that he could devote his time to politics and writing.
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