Chandigarh, May 4 -- Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov took a veiled dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his contesting from Raebareli in the Lok Sabha elections leaving many surprised.Kasparov's cryptic post has, however, set the social media on fire.

The Congress recently shared a video of Gandhi playing chess on his mobile phone while on the Lok Sabha election campaign trail. The MP from Wayanad named Kasparov as his favourite chess player and drew parallels between the game and politics.

A user on X made a cheeky comment on his page, which read "feel so relieved that @Kasparov63 and @vishy64theking retired early and didn't have to face the greatest chess genius of our times."

Kasparov, rather unusually, originally responded ...