Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.

Champion chess player and Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov has a few thoughts about how well democracy in the U.S. is doing. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that it's not America first - it's America alone.

But then, in the fifth race, with the wind dying, he didn’t finish in the allotted time, which dropped him down to second ...

Though chess was a cornerstone of Soviet society, it was only with the ‘Match of the Century’, the world championship clash in 1972 between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, that the world’s eyes ...