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.
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7 июн 2024
