Kasparov plays a most dangerous game against Putin

As is probably common knowledge now, democracy comes from within a country and not without. Bush is proving that quite well in Afganistan and Iraq.

As the world’s greatest chess player, Garry Kasparov employed his formidable intellect to outwit rivals before seizing on a weakness to crush them.

The Russian grandmaster is now applying those skills to a new game of strategy aimed at defeating his toughest opponent of all — President Putin. At stake, he argues, is the fate of Russian democracy.

Mr Kasparov has devoted himself to politics since retiring from professional chess last year. He regards Mr Putin as a dictator whose authoritarian rule threatens to return Russia to a dark past.

Here's hoping Kasparov is successful and doesn't end up a political prisoner.

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