Chess and Bigamy

In chess, bigamy is acceptable, but monarchy is absolute.

-- Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess, on promoting a pawn into another queen

Kasparov Plays Blitz 2011

Kasparov was seen lately playing blitz vs. FM Ghannoum in a fundraising in Naples. One of the games was recorded in this Youtube video:



The game went as:

Game 1: Ghannoum vs. Kasparov
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 a6 3. f4 b5 4. Nf3 Bb7 5. d4 cxd4 6. Qxd4 e6 7. Bd3 Nf6 8. h3 Qc7 9. Be3 d5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nxd5 Bxd5 12. O-O Nc6 13.Qb6 Qxb6 14. Bxb6 Nb4 15. Be2 Rb8 16. Bf2 Bd6 17. a3 Nc6 18. Be3 O-O 19. a4 bxa4 20. Rxa4 Rxb2 21. Bd3 Nb4 22. Bd4 Nxd3 23. cxd3 Rb3 24. Rxa6 Bxf4 25. Ne5 Bxe5 26. Bxe5 Rxd3 27. Ra7 f6 28. Bd6 Rc8 29. Rc7 Rxc7 30. Bxc7 h5 31. Rf2 Kh7 32. Kh2 e5 33. g3 Bf3 34. Bb6 g5 35. h4 g4 36. Bc5 Rd1 0-1

Garry Kasparov vs Magnus Carlsen - Reykjavik Rapid 2004

Just a little chess game analysis, watch this video from the Chess Network.

What Goes into the Minds of Grandmasters?

A Grandmaster makes the best moves because they are based on what he wants the board to look like ten or twenty moves in the future. This doesn't require the calculation of countless twenty-move variations. He evaluates where his fortunes lie in the position and establishes objectives. Then he works out the step-by-step moves to accomplish those aims.

-- Garry Kasparov (on his book "How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom)