[oersted]

I'm missing something, what's wrong with Kasparov? I've done some searching but didn't find much I'd consider significant...

EDIT: My bad, I didn't realize he was part of the article, didn't take the time to deal with the paywall.

[feralsandwich]

If you feel you're missing something in a discussion centered around a news article, skimming the news article often helps.

[K0balt]

No, that’s what headlines are for!

[darepublic]

IIRC He believes in this quack theory of history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)

[oersted]

Wow, gotta admire the epic ambition of this conspiracy theory, they just went for it :)

> The new chronology is a pseudohistorical theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later.

> The theory further proposes that world history prior to AD 1600 has been widely falsified to suit the interests of a number of different conspirators, including the Vatican, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Russian House of Romanov, all working to obscure the "true" history of the world centered around a global empire called the "Russian Horde".

[weinzierl]

Smart people can have delusions too.

[vulcan01]

> The lawyers accused authorities of selectively prosecuting two Black men, even though support also came from Granieri and Garry Kasparov, the chess champion and prominent Russian dissident. The US hasn’t accused either of them of wrongdoing.

From TFA (emphasis mine)

[dismalaf]

Read the article, he's involved in this...