On February 24th 1988 in New York City, the then World Champion 24 year old Garry Kasparov, took on six strong American Juniors in a clock simul. This was shown on UK TV at the time.
I am not sure if I missed it, but the man with the full beard and mustache, who was working with Kasparov, is probably the most influential non-titled player of the last 37 years. He has known, and been friends with, all of the world champions during that time. Many GMs during that time, if not most, have become GMs due to his work. He is none other than Frederic Friedel, the owner of ChessBase. What you see Garry using is a pre-ChessBase-1.0 version. Frederic gave Garry a pre-release copy (not yet versioned 1.0) of the software with the serial number 00001. It is very fitting that Garry had the very first copy of the program. He and Frederic are still good friends to this day.
@@bla4979 No.... Computer chess was absolutely atrocious against national master level until Deep Thought in 1989 and commercially until Chess Genius 3 and Fritz 3 were released on DOS in 1994. Even then you needed the best hardware and it played around 2200 Fide classical time controls. Chess Genius 1 was much better than Fritz 1&2, but by Fritz 3 stronger than equivalent Chess Genius evolution.
Am I the only one who finds Frederic super weird? In all of his interviews he comes across as a chess groupie who's main goal seems to be to befriend Super GMs and tell the world how influential he was for them.
This was insane from Garry to attempt this, all of the young players went on to become IM's or GM's, Garry has had other simuls through his career, he beat the Israeli Olympic team 7-1 ! 4 x 2600gms!, I don't remember Carlsen every attempting anything like this...
Great stuff Rob! Thanks for sharing this blast from the past! I’ve played in tournaments in the mid 80s with Wolf and Ilya (but never played them) my older buddy and sudo teacher a New England Life Master named Hal Terrie got beat up by both these young men several times as he watched them develop into young American Chess Superstars in the 80s. I’m gonna send him this link, it’s gonna make his day! Thanks again for sharing it. I hope you find more Gens like this and the other period chess stuff you’ve been posting on your channel. Cheers!
While some of these junior players would go onto become grandmasters, none reached a particularly high level of international play. Interestingly the next junior to come onto the scene was Gata Kamsky who would emigrate to the U.S. in 1989, and would later play for the world championship against Karpov in 1996.
Kasparov was very mad with Danny Edelman repeating the position so early in the game. I suppose Edelman should have shown more fighting spirit, but then again Kasparov could have avoided that situation by playing a different variation. And Wolff wearing the Michael Jackson 'True Criminal' hat is interesting. The song was released about nine months after this simul.
How many of these guys became GMs? Fishbein, Wolff (who beat Kasparov here), Gurevich all did. I don't think Rao, Ronde or Edelman did. Especially interesting about Edelman who offered the early draw.
First time that i see a world champion forced his opponent to play for a win in sequence of 3 times repetions moves 😂 beat me or lose and don't repeat moves .
his opponent took an easy draw rather than play against the world champion. he let down his team for a meaningless draw, kasparov was offended by his lack of ambition.
If you look at the game, it was a really pathetic position for white to take a draw in so early in the game. It screwed over his team and was a cowardly decision, he had a lot of options to keep the game going and maintain an advantage for white at that stage of the game. It was honestly a despicable decision by Edelman and Kasparov was rightly disgusted.
@@McRingil Horrendous to think only of yourself and not your teammates and think there's some glory in claiming a draw when the game hadn't even really started by playing a line where there's only one good move for black and then repeating positions rather than playing on when the position reverts.
the white hat is such an authistic nerdy quirky socially akward thing to do ... as long as chessplayers dont look like MMA fighters it will be a "sport" that stays in the margins
