24 hours with Garry Kasparov // Episode 11: The Walk

What did Garry Kasparov do after he left chess in 2005? How could a man whose whole life had been devoted to winning on a black-and-white board suddenly give up? The answer is simple: time had come! It is ruthless, even with the greatest champions.
"When you're over forty, your head starts to get tired of this constant pressure..." in Garry's own admission. "I noticed that I started overlooking things more and more often... With age, somewhere you don't calculate something, you see, you see, but you're afraid to do it - what if it "doesn't click". You begin to distrust yourself in something, take less risk, play in a safer, more pragmatic way. When this happens, the conclusion is unequivocal: you must leave!"
No matter what anyone says, Kasparov left beautifully! He left as world number one after winning the largest tournament in Linares, and before that, as he had planned for a long time, he had won the Russian championship in front of his son and could finally put his gold medal around young Vadim's neck.
"It was a symbolic moment for me. I did everything I wanted to do in chess!"
Moreover, FIDE did everything to prevent him from entering the World Championship. The match with the world champion Ponomariov and then Kasimdzhanov never took place, the Prague agreements went to dust, and Kasparov realized that "they don't want him here anymore" ...
What did the "outcast" ex-World Champion do? Watch in the next 11th episode of the Levitov Chess epic "24 Hours with Garry Kasparov". This time around they have a walk with Ilya Levitov.
0:00 - Kasparov's return in 2017
2:57 - Working with Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura
7:47 - Top 3
9:39 - Kasparov's legendary database
12:47 - How did computers "change the game" in the evaluation?
17:27 - The Caruana-MVL game from the 2021 Candidates' Tournament
21:04 - "The computer does not sacrifice anything"
23:37 - The first Chessbase and simuls against national teams
27:54 - Garry Kasparov's first computer
29:02 - The start of "computer chess"
34:36 - "Around for twenty five years"
37:07 - Quitting chess in 2005