Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part 1 is the first book in a
major new three-volume series. This series will be unique by the
fact that it will record the greatest chess battles played by the
greatest chessplayer of all-time. The series in itself is a
continuation of Kasparov's mammoth history of chess, comprising My
Great Predecessors and Modern Chess. Kasparov's historical volumes
have received great critical and public acclaim for their rigorous
analysis and comprehensive detail regarding the developments in
chess that occurred both on and off the board.. This new volume and
series continues in this vein with Kasparov scrutinising his most
fascinating encounters from the period 1973-1985 whilst also
charting his development away from the board. This period opens
with the emergence of a major new chess star from Baku and ends
with Kasparov's first clash with reigning world champion Anatoly
Karpov - a mammoth encounter that stretched out over six months. It
had been known in Russia for some time that Kasparov had an
extraordinary talent but the first time that this talent was
unleashed on the western world was in 1979. The Russian Chess
Federation had received an invitation for a player to participate
in a tournament at Banja Luka and, under the impression that this
was a junior event, sent along the fifteen year old Kasparov (as
yet without even an international rating!). Far from being a junior
tournament, Banja Luka was actually a major international event
featuring numerous world class grandmasters. Undeterred Kasparov
stormed to first place, scoring 111/2/15 and finishing two points
clear of the field. Over the next decade this 'broad daylight'
between Kasparov and the rest of the field was to become a familiar
sight in the world's leading tournaments.
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