Personal background

	His original name was Weinstein
	His roots are in Baku, Azerbaidzhan

	His father was a composer, a member of the Composers' Union, who formed the first music collective in Baku
	His mother was a music teacher
	His younger brother was a composer
	He was a child when his father Kim Moiseyevich was killed in a road accident. The authorities decided that he should have a more suitable name, and called him Kasparov, a Russian version of his mother's maiden name Kasparyan
	Kasparov's mother showed talent for chess when she was six years old!
	He completed Baku school No. 151 with a gold medal
	He was a student at the Azerbaidzhan State Teacher's Training College for foreign languages
	He was a member of the Azerbaidzhan Comsomol Central Committee
	He was awarded the Certificate of Honour of the Praesidium of the Azerbaidzhan Supreme Soviet.
	He was a member of the "Spartak" voluntary sports society