My mother’s father named her after German Communist leader Clara Zetkin. My paternal grandfather named his son Kim after the Cyrillic acronym for the Young Communist International, КИМ. Ironically, what helped bring my parents together was that both had die-hard Communist fathers. She was totally indifferent to traditions of upbringing of any kind. For my mother, personal qualities were everything, not ideology or ethnicity. You could say my mother’s family broke down barriers, as her youngest sister later married an Azeri, which was even more unusual. It was an unusual marriage at the time, a Jew and an Armenian, even in mixed Baku, which still had its unofficial ethnic partitions. Exactly 60 years after they married, they were reunited forever. I wasn’t sure, but my cousin confirmed that they got married on December 25, 1960. They couldn’t afford to have children right away, and I came along in 1963. She married my father, Kim Weinstein, at 23, not long after a memorable date at the Van Cliburn concert in Baku. Both of her parents were Armenians from Karabakh, and she was the eldest of three sisters. Klara Shagenovna Kasparova was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Soviet Union, on March 19, 1937. She meant everything to me, of course, but she was a remarkable woman in her own right, and I wanted to share a little about her and her life. My mother died in Moscow on December 25, at the age of 83. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > The ultimate chess experience every day, Pla圜 welcomes 20,000 chess players from all around the world – from beginner to grandmaster.

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