Love your podcast. One bit of feedback- sometimes when you have super-high-level guests like Kasparov, he's explaining something that C^2 understand inately but your guests don't have the same experience. This is an opportunity for one of the Cs to elaborate for more of a lay/YT audience
Fabis greatness is shown in this podcast. Spoke minimally (just asked questions), listened with intrigue and when Gary praised Hikaru and Magnus, you could not sense even an iota of brashness (like some people hint at some events where they were brilliant just to earn their praise, Fabi could have easily brought up Sinq 2014 or spoken more on his recent run or something like that in some context and earned praise).a lot to lean as a person from Fabi in this podcast, thanks
@@b3rnoit was a double round robin tournament with six participants, that were, if not the six best players in the world, damn close to it. Fabi won his first seven games than drew the remaining three, winning the event with what I believe is the highest performance rating ever to this day.
It is just insane to me that we can watch 2 of the 3 only players to breach 2850 (live rating) ever just sit down and chat like this, completely for free. It is truly a special privilege to live in a time where we as chess fans get these intimate insights into the absolutely brilliant minds that have formed the game for decades!
0:00 Intro 0:35 Garry becoming WC 3:00 Chess emotions of winning/losing 4:30 Thoughts after Kramnik Match / Rematch? 9:54 why was Garry so dominant 12:18 working with very first computers (+bonus Garry's iconic laugh) 14:40 Garry's old analyses leaked + old vs new analyses 18:10 Psychology playing a part in chess? 19:40 Fabi's motivation 20:28 computer vs over-the-board work 23:33 trusting engines 30:38 Garry's early coaching with Botvinnik 36:09 Garry coaching US juniors 37:25 Garry coaching Magnus + Magnus' weakness 42:08 Losing some skills while rounding as a player? 45:11 coaching Hikaru + differences with Magnus 46:30 Hikaru's comeback 50:21 most significant chess players in history 54:55 why Magnus stopped playing WC 58:13 Garry the organizer + Grand Chess Tour 1:01:46 contribution of St. Louis to chess 1:04:04 Kasparov Chess Foundation in Europe 1:04:36 Garry's feelings playing chess now 1:07:11 Outro
This might be one of my favorite roundtable chess discussions ever. C-Squared continues to make legendary chess content that will be relevant for years to come. Thank you, gents.
You guys are literally the best and bringing literally THE BEST people. Super lucky to watch these people. I guess Magnus would be coming soon, would be super epic seeing Fabi and Magnus together in a podcast🔥❤️
All these years later and you can tell he is still sooooo passionate about chess and current events. Listen to his answers.. not ONE generic answer. Every single question gets answered in detail with enthusiasm. I think this is interesting and definitely why he was/is so legendary. Pure passion and you can’t deny that.
18:12 Caruana asks if part of Kasparov's advantage after the openings was psychology. Apparently in the game where he beat Kramnik in the Berlin in 2001 after losing the world title because he couldn't win against Kramnik in that opening, Kramnik was so worried about Kasparov using a novelty when Kasparov chose that opening that Kramnik changed one of his own moves first, and Kramnik ended up confused, wasted an hour on a following move, and then ended up in time trouble and blundered and lost. So we never even got to find out if Kasparov had a new move planned to try and beat Kramnik, because in that game Kramnik essentially defeated himself before Kasparov could.
It is unfathomable to have an hour+ interview, talk about the greats of all eras and not even mention Vishy Anand! Anand transcends generations and styles of chess and stayed at the very top for so long and still there!
Thank you for giving us a great podcast. Your content is fantastic. really appreciate the fact that as a chess fan with a rating of 1200 i can watch your podcast. You keep it simple and at a level everyone can enjoy
The more I listen to different chess players, the more I appreciate Fabiano. He is always clear, coherent and rational. Unlike many top rated chess players.
Great interview. Alway a pleasure to to learn more from Kasparov. Also here there were many good, intelligent questions from the interviewers. Very good :-)
No the amount of work you do will manifest in pattern recognition so you don't get the same position but you get a mixture of pattern you studied in other variation which help you find better move than your opponent or a brilliant combination.
Garry's face when he played Magnus in that Rapid game was hilarious. And the fact Magnus kept on wondering off whilst playing the best chess player of all time. 😂
Gary and Fabiano including this guy that is interviewing. Add a few more people around that table and chess will be the best tool to stay mentally in shape.
I could listen to Mr Kasparov talk about anything (let alone chess) for hours - the man oozes passion, honesty, and intellectual curiosity. A truly fascinating watch/listen, thanks Cris and Fabi
And so much credit to Cristian and Fabi for creating an environment and conversation to let Garry really be himself and talk passionately about the game he loves. As good as Cris is as chess and coaching, his interview skills are perhaps even better.
@@misteratoz nope. old ELO was more valuable. Todays elo rating has less value in comparison because of tech power, human chess power increases along that. Can you imagine Kasparov or Fisher with todays computer help?? Maybe you can, thats why you cant compare today players ELO with old players elo and say Rating is all.
I will never forgive Kramnik for disallowing the rematch. However, I also was unhappy that Shirov did not get his opportunity. The great irony of the game of chess is that it may be the most fair and balanced game ever created. Yet, it can be the opposite outside of the 64 squares it is played on. Great interview.
That example Caruana gave about Fritz being totally misguided against Stockfish was very interesting. Very relevant now too with us increasingly trusting what AI tells us even without understanding how it has reached it's conclusions.
At 0:00, that's a video of a blitz game of Kasparov Vs Anand, and Kasparov made a huge binder, and he himself called it his biggest blunder of his entire career.
I got into chess because my grandad bought me a Kasparov electric chess machine. I stayed with chess because I found out who Garry was as a person. This is an excellent conversation, and I'd genuinely love to meet Garry one day.
Unless you add Cristian, it would be so awkward lol. Though I have to give Fabi some credit as a moderator. Imagine being a top-3 player in the world and week after week patiently listening to your guests rhapsodize the other top players while you calmly maintain your roll as gracious host. Props Fabi.
I saw Kasparov play in the WTC when I was 10 - I have followed his whole career and people are too hard on him, let him be human and appreciate the great things he brings to the table. Thank you for the podcast.
So interesting hearing all the chess history from the source himself...31:54 saying Nikitin spotted him playing for board 5 for the Azeri team and sent an invitation to meet Botvinnik...and that must be the same co-author of the Sicilian Scheveningen book by Kasparov that I read years ago! So funny how the same names pop up.
Man I was just watching his interviews with Levitov chess. Kasparov is such a genius I've read all of My Great Predecessors went through every game now going through Kasparov on Kasparov vol 2 its amazing.
Kasparov is world class when it comes to chess, but I wouldn't call him a genius. Average intelligence probably. Whenever Kasparov talks about topics other than chess, he says ignorant stuff pretty regularly. Kasparov believed the myth that a grand masters brain burns thousands of calories during a match. This would be like a genius believing if you swallow a piece of bubble gum, it stays in your stomach for 7 years.
@@NikoBased You burn thousands of calories a week even while sleeping. The ignorant one here is obviously you. Don't comment on stuff you have no idea about, please.
