Garry Kasparov's illegitimate daughter does not communicate with her father. Personal life of Garry Kasparov Chess player and information technology

About the romance of young Kasparov with a wonderful actress Marina Neelova gossiped all theatrical Moscow. When they met, Marina was 37 years old, and Garik was 21.

In 1984, Kasparov met actress Marina Neelova. He was 21 years old, and he was the youngest contender for the title of world champion in the history of chess.

“Our close communication with Marina Neelova lasted more than two years. She was 16 years older than me, like all my then girlfriends. Partly because I grew up so fast. But much more due to the fact that the same age, as a rule, sought to get married as soon as possible. Of course, I could not even think about this, as I was preparing for my first match for the world championship. Everything - my health, my training, my aspirations - was subordinated to this goal. On the other hand, I was a normal young man with normal needs and desires. Not a monk at all.

She and I had many common friends among writers and artists. She is a very extraordinary woman. It is quite possible that our union was also based on a sense of our exclusivity. (From Garry Kasparov's book "Child of Change"

He then lived in Baku and visited Moscow only on short visits. Neelova received a young lover in her apartment on Chistye Prudy. But in the light they have repeatedly appeared together. When in 1984 Kasparov first met in a world title match with Anatoly Karpov, Neelova was sitting in the hall next to the mother of the chess player.

The actress supported Kasparov at a difficult time for him. In the match for the world title with Anatoly Karpov, he first lost. Yes, even with a score of 0:5! Harry was even nicknamed the long-playing player. At matches, Neelova sat next to Klara Shagenovna. “Two mothers,” they said about them.

“At the end of January 1985, with the score 5:2, Karpov and I were even driven out of the Hall of Columns in the House of the Unions. Because Karpov, despite his assurances that he was about to press me, could not win, and here the members of the Politburo were dying one by one, and for the farewell ceremonies it was necessary to vacate the territory. Then Karpov handed over the third game, and the question was not even that he was physically exhausted and could not continue to play ... He became psychologically uncomfortable - he was just scared, and most importantly, those who were behind him frightened.

But it was Klara Shagenovna who separated them.

First she told her son:
- You need to focus on chess. And if you want to marry an actress, it's better to marry an entire factory hostel at once. She will infect you with a bad disease!
When Neelova became pregnant, Klara Shagenovna inspired her son that an illegitimate child could negatively affect his sports career. Ambitious Harry, who had already won the world title, did not object. His mother told the press: "This is not our child." As if hinting at the fact that Neelova was dating another man in parallel. The proud actress did not utter a word then. But the daughter Nika, whom she gave birth to, turned out to be like two drops of water similar to Kasparov. Neelova's colleagues at the Sovremennik Theater were outraged by the act of the grandmaster, and Valentin Gaft publicly declared:
- Kasparov is not worthy to be received in a decent house.

“I almost stopped seeing Marina. Parting became inevitable. Therefore, I was completely sure that the child she was carrying could not be mine. Each of us already had a separate personal life. I tried to put it all out of my head and focused on chess." (From Garry Kasparov's book "Child of Change")

In 1987, Marina Neelova's daughter, Nika, was born, like two peas in a pod, similar to Garry Kasparov.

Now Nick is 28 years old. She went to first grade in Paris. Her father was replaced by the current husband of Neelova - a Russian diplomat Kirill Gevorgyan. It is thanks to Nika's stepfather that school age traveled to different countries and learned several foreign languages. Neelova's daughter, a burning brunette, looks very attractive, although she says that she never considered herself a beauty.

Nika studied at the courses of the chief artist of the Moscow Lenkom Theater Oleg Sheintsis. In 2008 she graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. She studied abroad, or rather in the Netherlands, where her father, Kirill Gevorkyan, was appointed ambassador of the Russian Federation several years ago.

It is known that she is not a fan of public life and has incredible abilities in learning foreign languages. In the Netherlands, she graduated from the academy, her second education, artistic, was already in London, at the design school.

In 2010 she graduated from the School of Art at University College London. Participated in several collective exhibitions, mainly in the Netherlands. In 2010, Nika, with her installation Principles of Obedience, became the winner of the New Sensations competition held by London's Saatchi Gallery. According to the conditions of this prestigious competition, all graduates of the country's art universities are allowed to participate. But from the numerous applicants at its first stage, 20 of the best are selected, whose works are exhibited at the art fair in London. And only four winners receive a grant to create new projects. After the victory, she received many interesting offers, she had a solo exhibition in London.

Ironically, none of his children play chess. Viva! recalls well-known and not-so-famous facts from the biography of the 13th world chess champion, writer, the most influential Russian opposition leader in the West, personal enemy Kremlin and recognized playboy Garry Kasparov.

1. Head coach and adviser - mother.“I can be frank with her, like with no one else. At critical moments, you hear a voice that you used to believe for many years. Each of us needs someone whom you can trust, to express everything without concealment, calling a spade a spade. And then most often you yourself understand what to do. Mom jokes that she absorbs my stress.”

2. The first serious romance was with a famous actress.“Our close communication with Marina Neelova lasted more than two years. She was 16 years older than me, like all my then girlfriends. Partly because I grew up so fast. But rather more due to the fact that peers, as a rule, sought to get married as soon as possible. Of course, I could not even think about this, as I was preparing for my first match for the world championship. Everything - my health, my training, my aspirations - was subordinated to this goal. On the other hand, I was a normal young man with normal needs and desires. Not a monk at all. It is quite possible that our union was also based on a sense of our exclusivity.

3. Garry Kasparov did not recognize his daughter from Marina Neelova.“We had a relationship. They were not fixed, moreover, they were in no way limited to the two of us. They ended, probably, not very well, but, nevertheless, I had no reason to believe that I left her with the child. In any case, I believe that if I had something to do with a child, then life would have turned out differently.

4. In 2005, Garry Kasparov changed chess for politics.“There are too many generals and colonels in Russian politics and little intelligence. I hope that my ability to strategic thinking help my country."

5. Garry Kasparov considers chess players to be ordinary people. Luzhin's Defense, Zweig's chess short stories - great literature, unfortunately, has created clichés that cannot withstand any collision with reality. It is clear that there are people with their oddities. But there are no more of them than in any other mental activity that requires tension.

6. With the third wife of Garry Kasparov - 19 years difference.“I met my wife in St. Petersburg, at a lecture on alternative history. I was married, I had a son, but I decided to divorce. I realized that Dasha and I are on the same wavelength and I practically don’t feel the 19-year age difference. Now I'm driving extremely exemplary image life and I like it very much. Even though I am constantly on the move. After all, I don’t have an oil well or a candle factory, I live mainly due to lectures.

7. Has a reputation as a playboy.“At 22, I became a world champion, I had money, status, opportunities. All this created a lot of temptations. Therefore, life, let's say, was rather chaotic. Fans did not besiege the entrance, but there is something to remember. There was less confusion than you might think, but still enough.

8. Garry Kasparov goes in for sports every day.“In the late 90s, I had perfect athletic tone, I did 100 push-ups. For me, having a routine has always been important. It doesn't matter what it is - the main thing is that it be. Whenever possible, you need to sleep. I try to sleep during the day. In addition, it is important to eat properly and qualitatively. Naturally, I have never smoked, I have no need for alcohol. For me, four weeks at sea is a recovery, six weeks is a recharge. Walking, swimming, proper food plus an hour a day - sports. You can do push-ups and pump the press without any simulators.

9. Garry Kasparov considers Putin to be Hitler's successor.“I have a feeling that Putin instinctively tries to repeat even the rhythm of Hitler's speeches. How he does it is another matter, but the style of statements has long become the style of the Third Reich. Many psychological moments in his behavior with world leaders are a copy of what the Fuhrer did. And I guess the final part of the equation will be the same."

10. Garry Kasparov's favorite number is 13.“I must in every possible way support the magical faith in the power of the number 13, because I have a lot connected with it: I was born on April 13, became the 13th world champion. Although, it must be said that most of our superstitions are made up of a set of facts that are already analyzed after the fact. We put together for ourselves a kind of mosaic picture that has successfully lined up, and then we begin to adjust everything to fit it. Accordingly, what does not fit into it, we carefully push aside.

Childhood of Garry Kasparov

When exactly did the young Kasparov master ancient game, unknown. The story only mentions that at the age of five, unexpectedly for his parents, he prompted his father to solve a sketch published in a newspaper. Seeing such remarkable abilities in the kid, Garik was sent to the chess section of the Baku Palace of Pioneers. In 1970, the future grandmaster's father died of lymphosarcoma. The mother devoted her entire life to raising her son.

In the very first year of learning chess, the boy won the 3rd category. And already in 1972 he took part in the international youth tournament, which was held in France. Of course, they played an important role here. family ties the Kasparov family, but the merit of the young child prodigy should not be underestimated either.

The first successes and failures of chess player Garry Kasparov

Even then, Botvinnik noted the unique analytical abilities of the young talent. And the sixth world champion in such matters has never been wrong.

By the way, Garik became Kasparov, not Weinstein, only in 1974. Then his mother, for the sake of chess career son, changed not only his nationality, but also his surname. Since then, the young Jewish chess player has become an Armenian. In the same year, Garry Kimovich for the first time participated in the all-Union tournament between the palaces of pioneers. And already in 1975 he was in the lead in the championship of the USSR among young men. True, an unsuccessful finish threw him far, to seventh place. But given the age of the young man and the strong composition of the tournament, it was a sensation.

In 1976, at the age of 12, Bakunets won this tournament. Then they started talking about him seriously in the highest chess circles of the Land of Soviets. The country that occupied the undisputed leadership in the chess world.

Eight-year-old prodigy vs. Garry Kasparov

In 1978, after much debate, the young CCM was admitted to the tournament with the participation of grandmasters. Garik won the Sokolsky Memorial ahead of schedule. And this despite the fact that 5 rounds before the finish line, he has already scored a master's rate. In the same year, the future champion won the qualifying tournament for the country's top chess league.

In 1979, he submitted to a rather strong international tournament in Banja Luka.

True, he got to this tournament only thanks to the indisputable authority of the patriarch of Soviet chess. Without Botvinnik's recommendations, Garik might not have been allowed to travel abroad.

At the same tournament, the young master exceeded the norm international grandmaster. For such achievements, Heydar Aliyev himself, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, took him under his wing. And the chess genius did not let him down. He brought home the bronze medal of the USSR championship, the strongest tournament in the world in terms of composition.

Garry Kasparov - grandmaster

Having won matches against Viktor Korchnoi and Vasily Smyslov, in 1984 Garry Kimovich Kasparov became the main contender for the chess crown.

The young talent had victories and not only for chessboard. The year 1984 was remembered in the life of a 21-year-old chess player by his acquaintance with 37-year-old Marina Neyolova, who, after a three-year relationship with the champion, had a daughter, Nika. He did not acknowledge paternity.

Great Confrontation

It was decided to play again next year.

Garry Kasparov afraid of Russia?

On November 9, 1985, with a score of 13:11, Garry Kimovich Kasparov was declared the 13th chess king. Three more times Anatoly Karpov tried to regain the chess throne, but to no avail. The Great and Terrible firmly established himself on the throne of the chess Olympus.

Personal life of Garry Kasparov

The divorce process was not easy, and hit the “chess king” well in the pocket. It is worth noting at least the purchase of an apartment for an ex-wife in the United States. And real estate there was very, very expensive.

In 1995, the heart of the Great and terrible was again wounded by the arrow of Cupid. This time, young Julia Vovk turned out to be the chosen one of the chess idol. An eighteen-year-old student became the legal wife of a genius in 1996, at the same time she gave him a son, Vadim, officially the second child of a chess luminary. The marriage between Garik and Yulia lasted 9 years.

Kasparov - politician

In 1990, he left the CPSU and was directly involved in the creation of the Democratic Party of Russia, but already in the same year he created an intra-party faction with Murashov, which actually split the DPR. Some of the members of which later moved to the "Liberal Union", organized by a Bakuvian in 1991.

In 1993, Garry Kimovich Kasparov left FIDE and organized the PCA, destroying order in the chess world for many years. It was only 20 years later that the consequences of this split were eliminated.

Chess player and information technology

Garry Kasparov now

After the victory in Linares-2005, the Thirteenth World Champion, the winner of dozens of tournaments, the man of the era, the Great and Terrible announced that he was leaving his professional chess career.

Now the chess player is one of the leaders of the opposition to President Vladimir Putin. He fights in the political arena the same way he fought at the chessboard. And yet, history may not remember Kasparov's politics. But the thirteenth world chess champion will remain in the memory of people forever.

Everyone knows that Garry Kimovich Kasparov(52) always appreciated the fair sex. His love affairs were legendary. Now the brilliant chess player has settled down, bought an apartment in Manhattan, where he lives with his young wife Daria Tarasova, 9 year old daughter by Aida and a very young son Nicholas who was born on July 6 this year.

The champion has always known a lot about female beauty. Rumor has it that he could not resist Daria, who is 20 years younger than him, while still legally married to Julia Vovk(37) who bore him a son Vadim (19).

The most scandalous can be considered the novel of Garry Kimovich with an actress Marina Neelova(68). When they met, the artist was 37, and the grandmaster was 21. The difference of 16 years did not embarrass the couple. But they were separated Clara Shagenovna, Kasparov's mother, believing that Garry Kimovich needed to focus on chess, and not on a woman. When Neelova became pregnant, Clara inspired her son that an illegitimate child would negatively affect his career and stated in the press: "This is not our child." Marina Neelova did not get involved in these scandals in the media and did not comment on anything. However, the daughter Nika, which she gave birth to, was very similar to Kasparov. Nick is now 28 years old. Her father was replaced by Neelova's husband, a Russian diplomat Kirill Gevorgyan. They prefer not to talk about the chess player.

royal bounty

In 1989, Kasparov and Korchnoi met in a knockout tournament in Paris in one of the semi-finals. Both main games ended peacefully, and the third blitz game was played according to the situation, in which White needed a victory, while Black was satisfied with a draw. Black went to Korchnoi, he achieved the desired result and reached the final. But here judge Giessen, who was interested in Kasparov being in the final, in violation of the rules, forced the partners to sit down at the board again, in fact, sued Harry. This time, Kasparov won, got into the final, where he defeated Short. Of course, the referee was to blame for Korchnoi's financial loss, but Harry felt embarrassed and found a way out of the conflict. When the prizes were handed out at the closing of the tournament, he without further ado gave Korchnoi $16,000 in cash - that much Viktor Lvovich would have been guaranteed in the final...

All world champions love money, but only Kasparov parted with it so generously...

magic sweater

In 1981, the World Youth Team Championship was held in Austria. After the victory of the Soviet team, Kasparov, its leader, purchased a dozen red and white sweaters with large numbers "85" on the chest - for gifts to everyone who intends to help him in the fight for the championship title. "What's with the strange number? - asked his coach Alexander Nikitin, putting on a sweater. “If you expect to play a duel for the crown, then the next one will take place only three years later, in 1984, and the next one three years later, and FIDE President Campomanes is unlikely to break the calendar for you.” “Wait and see,” Harry smiled enigmatically. “For now, let’s assume that I took these sweaters because of the sum of the numbers, 8 + 5 = 13.” Indeed, a damn dozen is a lucky number for Kasparov, who was born on April 13th and subsequently proclaimed the 13th world champion. But, apparently, Harry was cunning - even then he had the gift of providence ... And in fact, Kasparov became the king of chess in the second, extraordinary match with Karpov in 1985!

Women's duel

In 1984, even before the marathon with Karpov, Kasparov began an affair with the popular actress of the Sovremennik Theater Marina Neelova. They met on a visit to a famous married couple - pianist Vladimir Krainev and figure skating coach Tatyana Tarasova. Although Harry was sixteen years younger, he managed to win Marina's heart and fell in love with her. Their relationship lasted about two years, but the question of marriage, apparently, did not arise. Harry lived in Baku with his mother, and when he was in Moscow, he would certainly visit Marina. She was assigned the role of a second, Moscow mother: chess talent needed female guardianship. Neyolova was a homebody, and Kasparov loved to sparkle in society, especially with such a beautiful lady, and the famous artist, in order to please him, went to meet him.

It is not known how long this relationship would have lasted, but Klara Shagenovna, Harry's mother, was tired of sharing her son with another woman, and she convinced him that for the sake of a career it was necessary to break with Neelova. Of the two mature and experienced competitors, the mother won ...

Second try

In 1986, Kasparov met Maria Arapova, a graduate of the Romano-Germanic department of the philological faculty of Moscow State University, who worked as a guide-translator at Intourist. A pretty blonde with pleasant manners, a good education and a prestigious job - all with a plus sign. They dated for three years and finally got married. In 1992, Harry's wife gave birth to a daughter, Polina, and the birth took place in Finland, where Maria's parents were on a business trip at that time. Alas, after five years of cloudless happiness, "the family boat crashed into everyday life." There is a version that the "housing problem" ruined the spouses. When the time came to buy new housing in the center of Moscow, Masha made an unforgivable mistake by offering her husband to buy a separate apartment for Klara Shagenovna in the house next door. A loving mother, who always lived with her son under the same roof and could not imagine otherwise, could not endure such deceit. The divorce process was long and difficult. Maria was not satisfied with the generous maintenance that Kasparov assigned to her and Polina. The wife said that she was disappointed in the chess player, who fights with her for square meters, as with Karpov for the fields of a 64-cell board. Having hired experienced lawyers, she made a claim to Harry for every item of income, demanded the division of all property "accumulated during their life together." It seems that the main reason for the divorce was the desire of the wife to go abroad, while maintaining a high material level at Harry's expense. In the end, Maria went with her daughter and parents to America, where Harry bought them a very comfortable house in New Jersey. The daughter is already over twenty years old, she is a student at Columbia University, but Kasparov still supports Polina and her mother.

Latvian trail

For several years, Kasparov went bachelor and was one of the most enviable suitors. Lucky was the beautiful Julia Vovk, a tall, leggy girl whom Harry met in 1995 in Riga at the Tal Memorial: she was nineteen, he was thirty-two. A year later, the wedding took place (however, there was no official registration of the marriage). Soon the young wife gave her husband a son, Vadim. "Are you going to retire from chess?" - now and then asked Harry. “Not before my son sees my victory on stage! - followed the answer - he must realize who his father is.

In 2000, Kasparov lost to Kramnik, for several years all his attempts to play a rematch were in vain, and in 2005, disappointed by the situation, Garry made a sensational statement that he was leaving big chess, refusing to fight for the return of the crown and switching to politics . However, parting with his beloved chess, Harry managed to please his son - at the end of 2004 he won the "missing" title of champion of Russia. Vadim was present in the hall and, as planned by Kasparov, he saw with his own eyes what an outstanding father he had. Moreover, it was the son who got the gold medal - a valuable toy! But time flies quickly, Vadim is already eighteen, he is a tall guy, a giant, almost two meters tall.

It is important to note here that Julia is a native of Riga, has Latvian citizenship, and Vadim, thanks to this, has a residence permit, and he often visits Riga. In 2013, these circumstances played an important role in the fact that Kasparov himself asked for Latvian citizenship (of course, retaining Russian)! Thus, if the Latvian Seimas made a positive decision, then the chess king would again appear in Riga (the first was Mikhail Tal). However, in 2014, Kasparov received Croatian citizenship, became a full-fledged European, and the question of a residence permit in Riga disappeared by itself ...

(to be continued)