Garry Kasparov is the greatest chess player of all time, world champion at the age of twenty-two and the top ranked player in the world for two decades. His matches against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue put chess and artificial intelligence on front pages around the world. Kasparov writes frequently for many major publications on world affairs and AI. He lectures widely to business and academic audiences on decision making and the human-machine relationship. The Kasparov Chess Foundation promotes chess in schools, and he is the chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and the Renew Democracy Initiative. Kasparov's books include Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped (2015), Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (2017) and the acclaimed chess series My Great Predecessors and Kasparov on Kasparov. He lives in New York City.