Garry Kasparov is a chess grandmaster and one of the strongest human chess players in the world. He is highest rated on the FIDE January 2005 list at 2804, and he is the highest rated player ever with his 2851 ELO in 1999. He was classical world chess champion from 1985 until 2000. Over the last decade, he has played a series of matches against IBM-built chess machines, including Deep Blue and X3D Fritz. Kasparov, who announced his retirement from serious chess on March 10 2005, has been credited with the invention of Advanced Chess, as a new form of chess in which a human and a computer join their forces.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1921: The Hashemite Emirate of Transjordan, now Jordan, was established. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transjordan)

1945: World War II: The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchenwald)

1951: Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur)

1965: Fifty-one tornadoes struck six Midwestern states in the United States during the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Sunday_Tornado_Outbreak)

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