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Garry Kasparov, the world’s former No. 1 chess player who retired last month to focus on politics, said Saturday he was hit over the head with a chessboard in a politically motivated attack. Kasparov, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, was not injured Friday when he was hit with the chessboard after signing it for a man in Moscow. “It was a fairly nasty incident, it was not very pleasant psychologically,” Kasparov told NTV.
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Compiled from news services and edited by Curt Wagner (cwwagner@tribune.com) and Michael Morgan (mnmorgan@tribune.com)
