Garry Kasparov will be Kirsty Young's guest on "Desert Island Discs"
at 11.15 on Radio 4 this coming Sunday, the 28th of January.

Desert Island Discs has been running in one format or another
since 1942. I always try to catch it on a Sunday morning.
You hear some fantastic tracks and the reason behind the
choice is often enlightening, revealing and surprising.
(a lot of politicians seem to have been fans of Rock n Roll..)

"Each week a guest, called a 'castaway' during the programme, is asked
to choose eight recordings (usually, but not always, music), a book and
a luxury item that they would take if they were to be cast away on a
desert island, whilst discussing their lives and the reasons for their choices"

Be interesting to hear what 8 songs and book Gary chooses.
His luxury item might be a chess computer (Deep Blue).

One of the songs he chose was 'Strangers in the Night'.

His luxury item was a telescope.(!)

The programme with Garry is available for download as mp3 file under this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pjldq

I have to say I came away from this thinking Kasparov would probably be quite happy to ditch all the music and just take a chess board. 😀

It's a good thing Gari talks about an island..because he is all washed up as a player. !

Originally posted by @greenpawn34
One of the songs he chose was 'Strangers in the Night'.

His luxury item was a telescope.(!)

Originally posted by @venda
You'd have thought he might have chosen some chess related songs:-
From a Jack to a King, Dancing Queen.The "night" begins to turn your head around.