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Two Days with Garry Kasparov By Akshat Chandra It was a bitterly chilly December morning as I headed down the streets of New York City. The gray, opaque clouds were staring down, and the whistling wind was incessantly slashing across my face. But I was still in high spirits, as I was headed to a chess evaluation session conducted by Garry Kasparov, the 13th World Champion and one of the greatest players of all time.

This evaluation session is part of the “Young Stars – Team USA” program, sponsored by the (KCF) and the (CCSCSL) since 2012. A group of young and promising chess players are assessed and evaluated by Garry himself, along with KCF President and FIDE Senior Trainer Michael Khodarkovsky. The five players invited to this session were: • Ashritha Eswaran • Jennifer Yu • Samuel Sevian • Kayden Troff • Akshat Chandra Jennifer, the 2014 World Youth U-12 Girls champion, and Ashritha, who played in the US Women’s Championship 2014, were attending this evaluation for the first time. Meanwhile, Kayden and Samuel were seasoned veterans, and have been part of these sessions since the program’s inception.

This was the second time I was attending a KCF session, almost a year after my first visit. I was no longer a rookie, and was hoping to make a stronger impression this time so I could be accepted into the individual training program, which provides coaching and sponsored tournament trips.

One of the coaching team’s most prominent trainer is GM Alexander Chernin, who has worked with many promising youngsters, and has been training Kayden and Samuel since 2012. I reached the session’s venue, a giant conference room in a law firm located in mid-town Manhattan. A short while later, Garry paced into the room.

You could instantly feel his striking aura. He took his seat at the maple-colored conference table, and acknowledged us. Now, it was time for him to go through our games. Before the session, we were asked to annotate six games, although there is usually not sufficient time to see them all.

“The journalist!” Garry smiled, knowing me from. “Let’s start with his games first.” Akshat Chandra at the New York session with Garry Kasparov and Michael Khodarkovsky I eagerly took my seat next to Garry, and began to show the games I had prepared for him. They were against GMs with an average rating of 2650, as I felt those games would be most instructive. Moonlight lady episode 1 sub indo. During the presentation I noticed the “chess instinct” which Garry had harnessed over his illustrious career. He was constantly coming up with accurate thoughts and ideas, and his first instinct turned out to be right nearly all the time! He was even aware of the latest developments in modern theory.

You wouldn’t be able to tell that he retired nearly ten years ago! Another remarkable trait of Garry’s is his prodigious memory. Throughout the session, he would suddenly go quiet and close his eyes. No, he wasn’t sleeping! Instead, he was deep in thought, and his mind was whirring, trying to recall a particular game played several years ago which was similar to the position on-hand.