Grand Master Vs The World

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Makogonov

Hi all,

Do you have any links, articles, dealing with chess grand masters facing the world (like Kasparov Vs The World, Carlsen Vs The world...) ?

I'd like to read some article in chess periodicals like, British chess magazine, le Palamède, 64... There is so many sources, I don't know where to search and I don't find anything. (also, If you have some youtube links, or videos, it could be nice).

It is really important for me to know more about this kind of event.

Regards
Jérôme

fburton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World

has some good links.

Makogonov

Thanks Burton,
I want some more

fburton

Kasparov's book on his match versus The World is pretty good imo. I don't think it's available online though. (I bought a secondhand copy.)

http://www.amazon.com/Kasparov-Against-World-Garry/dp/0970481306

Makogonov

Good  book indeed, I also bought a secondhand copy. Do you think journalists wrote articles about these events (not only the Kasparov one) ? I want several standpoints.

fburton

GM Daniel King was the main journalist covering the event, of course. I remember seeing fairly extensive notes he and other had written about the game gathered into one document.

Ok, I found it:

www.grailmaster.com/misc/chess/gameanalysis.doc

Makogonov

Nice doc, how did you find it?

And do you have other links regarding other Grand masters (not only Kasparov).

Also, do you think amateurs can really develop new ideas about chess, and beat a GM. Or all this thing is commercial? (because moves were suggested by young GM and computers). What is the place of the amateur in the word of chess? What can he bring?

fburton

"Google is your friend" (as they say).

I got Google to search on the following words and the document showed up on the first page (at the bottom):

kasparov vs the world commentary

fburton
Makogonov wrote:

And do you have other links regarding other Grand masters (not only Kasparov).

I'm afraid not. A good starting point, however, would be a list of GMs who played such games against "the world". I don't think there can be that many of them - maybe 2 or 3 at most.

fburton
Makogonov wrote:

Also, do you think amateurs can really develop new ideas about chess, and beat a GM. Or all this thing is commercial? (because moves were suggested by young GM and computers). What is the place of the amateur in the word of chess? What can he bring?

Interesting questions! I'm not sure what you mean by "new ideas" though. Would you care to expand?

Makogonov

Hi Burton,

Unlike what you think, there are a lot of GM playing the world, look :
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=29573

By new ideas, i mean, finding moves which are not suggested by computers or master moderators.

fburton

Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for pointing that out.