Wow very cool. Who translated this? Wasnt the original in Russian?
24 Hours with Garry Kasparov
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Jun 25, 2023
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The videos are still in Russian but either Levitov or someone who works for him added the English subtitles to each of the videos.
Except for a few small grammatical errors, the translations are very good and the videos are very watchable and recommended.
Jun 25, 2023
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24 HOURS WITH GARRY KASPAROV // Episode 3: 1976-1977. Plateau - Will I become a chess player?
Looking back at Garry Kasparov's career one may think that everything always came easy to him. That he never failed. That he never doubted. That he always went from one success to another.
This is obviously not the case. The young Garry had his fair share of mistakes and losses, but they did not stop him: they only got him to work even more on chess!
That's precisely the topic of the third episode from the Levitov Chess saga "24 HOURS WITH GARRY KASPAROV". It covers one of the the most important period in Garry's biography, from 1976 to 1978.
From his famous victory at the age of 12 at the U.S.S.R. Youth Championship in Tbilisi, when he managed to truly make himself known not only in Baku, but already at the all-Union level, to the failures and difficulties of 1977, when the great champion could not become a Master of Sports. "
Why did things slow down and why couldn't I show anything for two years?" Kasparov asks himself. "The thing is that everyone has their own limit of perception, the size of your "hard disk".
Obviously, at the age of 12, it was still difficult for me to perceive everything... But time has not passed in vain: these were years of great work, they reinforced me, made another chess player out of me!"
Botvinnik was helpful, as he taught the future champion an important lesson: in sports, first place matters, nothing else. Something Kasparov understood once and for all...
Do not miss: Ilya Levitov learned from Garry Kasparov the secret of how to overcome difficulties and continue to go forward.
"Of course I was incredibly happy, I mean I had just become USSR Junior Champion, it seemed everything would be nice and easy from there on.
However, in fact, the next two year period was, if not a total disappointment, at least a difficult one, because I was at the point where I was developing as a professional chess player.
The immediate great results that many expected didn't materialize."
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Jun 26, 2023
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24xru wrote:
But is it real
Some of the games are unreal. But yes, it is real.
Jun 26, 2023
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24 HOURS WITH GARRY KASPAROV // Episode 4: "Mama, that’s it, don't let's meet again!"
There are turning points in each and every biography, even in the brighest ones. For Kasparov, call that the Sokolsky Memorial in Minsk, to which the 14-year-old Candidate Master with no international rating was admitted only on the urgent recommendation of former World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, who promoted his best student.
Garry made it there as a little-known young talent who struggled making his way forward. He left as a mature player, who was already beginning to be feared, winning 11 games and exceeding the norm of a master of sports by 3.5 points. "I threw all of my pieces forward then and went all-out, attacked, sacrificed!" Kasparov explains with joy.
"Average Masters could no longer withstand such pressure and lost to me without much resistance... Those who were stronger, when they received all this, were completely at a loss!"
The young player from Baku was pleased not only with the brilliant results he showed, but also with the quality of the games itself: "I had something to show Botvinnik at the last session of his school in 1978."
His self-confidence was getting higher: "Now I had no doubt that my life path would be connected with chess!" .
This led Kasparov to a new, no less significant achievement. A few months later in Daugavpils, fighting in a tournament full of Grandmasters, Kasparov pulled a rabbit out of his hat: at the age of 15 he won the right to play the holy of holies of chess, the highest league of the U.S.S.R. Championship.
Garry was no fluke during the 46th U.S.S.R. Championship in Tbilisi. He scored 50% of the points and guaranteed himself the right to participate in the top league in the next U.S.S.R. Championship.
How was such a breakthrough even possible? How come such a young man so easily coped with the best Masters and Grandmasters of the country?
With his today perspective, Garry Kimovich gives an accurate and exhaustive explanation to all of that.
Sokolsky Memorial 1978
Daugavpils 1978
The Palatnik game is the first of Bojkov's lessons on Kasparov's Greatest Combinations
USSR Championship 1978 games in post below
Jun 26, 2023
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USSR Championship 1978
Round 1
Round 4
Round 5
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
46th USSR Championship Tournament
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Jun 26, 2023
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24 HOURS WITH GARRY KASPAROV // Episode 5: “The new Fischer“
1979 proved to be a crucial year in Garry Kasparov's career.
From a young man who brings sensations and breaks the established stereotypes, he quickly turned into an extra-class chess player, from whom everyone always expects success!
The Baku resident started the year without a title and an international rating, and ended it as a member of the USSR national team. Just as the Sokolsky Memorial in 1978 changed attitudes towards him in the Soviet Union, so did the tournament in Banja Luka in the West.
Before the start, the locals were indignant that the Soviets did not respect them at all - they were sending them some boys. But... after the start of Kasparov - 9 out of 10 -, the tone changed, and everyone began to count and wonder the kind of a rating Garry would reach by the end of the tournament? Immediately after the end of the 10th round, the well-known Yugoslav journalist Dimitrie Belica ran into the hall, who exclaimed publicly: “Yes, Kasparov is the new Fischer!”
At the same time, the image of Kasparov was formed. And then another witz from Eduard Gufeld. At one of the banquets, talking about Garry's opening repertoire, he said to him: “Garry, how can you hesitate between the Sicilian and the Caro-Kann?
He tore everyone apart with his hurricane attacks, went forward, and his pieces overcame any obstacles, crushed any rivals. And yet... At the 1979 USSR Championship, he started with three victories, and finished the tournament with the same "+3", which allowed him to cling to the "bronze". He could well have taken the gold medal, if not for an inexplicable failure in the second half, when he almost lost four games in a row.
Without failures, there are no victories, - at that moment, Garry understood that clearly. Not surprisingly, immediately after the USSR Championship in Minsk, he (as second reserve, as it is) was included in the Union team for the 1980 European Championship.
"Why only second?" Kasparov asked Baturinsky, not without a smile...
Banja Luka Tournament 1979
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=62138&pid=15940
"Kasparov doesn't even have an international rating. Why do Grandmasters have to play such weak players? The Russians insult us, by sending over kids"
- Grandmaster Milan Vukic, 1979
Round 1
Master Kasparov vs GM Petrosian
Before the game started Petrosian hinted to Kasparov that he might be willing to make a draw.
https://www.chess.com/openings/Ruy-Lopez-Opening-Morphy-Defense-Chigorin-Defense-12.Nbd2-Bd7-13.Nf1
Kasparov asks Petrosian "Should I play the Caro-Kann or the Sicilian?" and Petrosian advises that Kasparov plays the Sicilian Defense.
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 6
Round 7
Round 13
TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
Banja Luka Tournament
Banja Luka Tournament
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Based on this extraordinary tournament performance Master Kasparov was given the International Master title and one Grandmaster norm. His rating was above 2500 and so he needed just one more norm to become a Grandmaster.
24 hours with Garry Kasparov // Episode 1: Garry Weinstein
It would seem that the life story of the 13th World Champion, the greatest chess player of our time Garry Kasparov has already been looked into thoroughly- both by himself and dozens of biographers, and that there are neither blank spots nor places for interpretation in it.
Ilya Levitov, who conducted a 24-hour dialogue with "The Great and Terrible", is inclined to argue that this is far from the case!
Kasparov is unique in the chess world, not only for his contribution to theory and his practice of the game, which had no equivalent either before or after him, but also for his tireless thirst for victory.
For more than a quarter of a century of his unique career, Garry gave his all, winning almost every competition he took part in. He played in eight World Championship matches, he won six of them – and could have played more, if not for the war against FIDE, which he lead his whole life, and in which he was, alas, eventually defeated.
He holds all the records and achievements that ever existed in chess. Kasparov came ahead of Fischer by becoming the first player ever to cross the 2800-elo rating border. He held the first spot of the world rankings for 22 years. He scored the most victories, including a row in super tournaments, causing awe, if not horror, among colleagues.
He was the first to use computers in preparation, opening this "Pandora's box", and losing to it in a 1997 match. He opened a new era in the history of chess, where machines became stronger than humans ... Finally, Kasparov tried many times to transform chess itself, by turning it into a professional sport with proper prizes and a clear structure in which players themselves played the main role – and would not depend on the will of all-powerful officials!
Yes, his whole life and career is filled with contradictions. There is probably nothing else to expect from a chess genius.
During the next 24 hours on air on the Levitov Chess channel you will learn everything about the life of Garry Kimovich Kasparov!
Or almost everything... You don't want to miss that. Today's first episode is dedicated to his childhood, his parents and his first steps in chess...
24 HOURS WITH GARRY KASPAROV // Episode 2: 1975. First game ever with Karpov!
Within a couple of years, once the 15-year-old Kasparov would reach the finals of the U.S.S.R. Championship, Mikhail Tal would quip about the Bakuvian: "Garry already plays so well that he could easily play under his former family-name..."
When Garik Weinstein was only 11, chess prospects outside of his native Azerbaijan, in which he was certainly considered a star, were not yet clear. And then – as suggested by his coach, Alexander Nikitin, who was joined by his mother's family – he became Kasparov. Very timely!
Three brilliant successes followed each other, which forced people to remember the name "Kasparov". He won the Baku Cup amongst adults, where in the finals he beat Oleg Pavlenko. The U.S.S.R. Championship among juniors, in which he failed to get on the podium only because of sheer impatience.
And most importantly - the game at the all-Union tournament "Pioneers against grandmasters", in which Kasparov met Karpov for the first time! In that game, regardless of the great position he obtained, in their one on one encounter the 11-year-old Candidate Master couldn't hold but unknowingly instilled fear in the entourage of the almighty Anatoly Evgenievich. "I had a feeling then: This doesn't happen for no reason!"
And the game with Korchnoi, in which Viktor Lvovich only miraculously managed to resist, and because of which he missed the first spot among the grandmasters, clearly made it clear to everyone: a new star appeared in Soviet chess!