Best Chess Player of All Time - Garry Kasparov?
My Dear Chess Friends!
This is FM Viktor Neustroev and this is the third video devoted to the best player of all time. And in this video, I’m going to introduce Garry Kasparov. I’m sure many of you would say that Garry is the best chess player of all time!
Let’s learn something new from Garry's chess life and observe his second-best game! Why second? Because I’ve already made a review of the best game of all time and that was the game between Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov!
And one more thing before we start, my previous video was devoted to Bobby Fischer and I was asking you what else Bobby invented for chess. Would you like to know the answer? Please, watch this video to the very end and you’ll find the answer.
Ok, before we start the analysis of Garry Kasparov’s game. Let me tell you about his biography. Actually, Kasparov is the last name of his mother. When Garry was born, his full name was Garik Kimovich Weinstein. However, he decided to change his last name at the age of 12.
Garry’s parents liked to solve chess puzzles published in Soviet Newspapers. And at the age of 5, Garry suggested a solution to one of them. And this that moment his father started teaching him chess.
Nowadays Garry is also known as a writer and political activist. But, of course, chess made him popular. At the age of 22 he became a World Champion in 1984 defeating Anatoly Karpov. And from 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 255 months overall for his career. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013.
About Bobby Fischer's contribution to World Chess
Bobby Fischer invented “Increment”. This is a timing method that we get used to nowadays. A specified amount of time is added to the players main time each move, unless the player's main time ran out before they completed their move. For example, 3+2 means that 2 seconds are added to the main time after a player makes a move on the board and punches the clock.
What else did Bobby Fischer create? He invented Chess960 or Fischer Random Chess. It’s a new variation of chess that employs the same board and pieces as standard chess, but the starting position of the pieces on the players' home ranks is randomized, following certain rules. The random setup makes gaining an advantage through the memorization of openings impracticable; players instead must rely more on their spontaneous talent and creativity over the board.
In this video you learned about Garry Kasparov, Soviet & Russian grandmaster. I’m absolutely sure that Garry Kasparov deserved the title of “The Best Player of all time”, but before taking a final decision we should also observe 2 more candidates.
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I hope you enjoyed this video and liked his second-best game, but if you want to look at the analysis of Garry’s best (and the most brilliant) game, watch the video where I review the game between Garry Kasparov and Veselin Topalov.
If you think that these 2 games played by Garry Kasparov are not the best games he ever played, please, share your thoughts about his best game into the comment section below.
Ok, don’t miss my next video about Vishy Anand, enjoy Garry’s best game and I’ll see you there in a moment!
Best Regards,
FM Viktor Neustroev