Garry Kasparov Masterclass Chess – Learn Chess Like a World Champion | Complete Lesson Series (Full Course)

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Learn chess from the legendary Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion and one of the greatest minds in chess history. In this Garry Kasparov Masterclass Chess Lesson Series, you’ll uncover advanced strategies, opening theory, tactical ideas, endgame mastery, and psychological techniques used by the world’s best players. Perfect for beginners, intermediate, and advanced chess learners, this full course helps you think like a Grandmaster and improve your rating fast. Watch Kasparov explain real-world examples, famous games, and pro-level insights that will elevate your chess IQ to the next level.

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Garry Kasparov’s chess philosophy and approach

How to plan and calculate like a world champion

Opening preparation, middle-game strategy & endgame technique

Secret tactics and mindsets that dominate tournaments

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00:00it's hard to remember the very first experience playing chess I'm looking at

00:17this wooden board with some pieces trying to figure it out almost instantly falling

00:26in love with this mystery and I learned how to move the pieces simply watching my

00:34following my parents and then I even was brave enough to make suggestions and

00:41actually it you know one of the suggestions work I did play with a little

00:46bit was my father though he died very young age so 39 so I was seven I

00:55remember more playing with my uncle he was pretty decent player I was just in

01:01the beginning of my chess journey and I remember he gave me a rook

01:07handicap and he bit me I was so upset I couldn't meet him instantly took time so

01:14for me just to get stronger my first big experience was not a 72 I play the blitz

01:25championship I was in quarterfinal it's and it was a real one for adults and I was

01:33nine years old and I made nine out of nine in the quarterfinal and then I played in

01:41the semi-final and I qualified that was pretty good blitz player so I was a good

01:46player period but in blitz I was even stronger because I was very quick very sharp so I qualified

01:55for the final when I could face masters I'm the real tough guys and and and I played in the final

02:03of course I and I was I was very small kid you know just like it was hard for me just to sit in the chair to make the moves and

02:11and I I lost all the games except one I won one game lost five or six games in the row and I was

02:19not I was not ready my mother took me away so because it was it was too early but it was a good

02:25experience I was lucky because I found the game of chess this is something that perfectly fits my

02:33personality we all are good for for something but that was a nexus where my memory analytical skills

02:46determination by human star standards brute force of calculation everything worked perfectly and and I

02:56have been making progress um and it was more of limiting my uh uh eagerness to be involved so my mother

03:08tried to make sure that I don't have too much as I was I'm always hungry for more chess uh not to

03:16overload me not to throw me into the big competitions too early because she remembered this this is experience of

03:25of of this blitz championship in bakua it was too early and that's why later on when she was pushed by

03:30some of our friends relatives yes let's make sure gary plays the students no no no no just you know

03:36don't rush don't rush give him time to get stronger to uh uh uh get mature and to uh be ready to um have

03:48enough stamina for serious competitions because it's not just about playing you have to play

03:54and you have to win

03:55a lot of people around me believe that i could be a great player i could be even the world champion

04:09um i remember in 1972 yes 1972 when bobby fisher won his title beating boris baske

04:22um i was given a present from one of our relatives uh and it was a chess board and there was a chess board

04:36and uh it had squares surrounding the board with pictures of world champions there were 11

04:48and then there was one square left and uh i was told it would be for karpov because i really expected

05:02karpov to to challenge fisher and uh a relative who gave this presence and said there's no square but

05:12there's a room and uh i hope that that will be your your place your place in in in in chess history

05:21from the very beginning we believed in number 13 that's

05:26it's uh it's a prodigious uh i couldn't help myself thinking that karpov was number 12

05:33so i was born april 13 so maybe i'm i was destined to become number 13 as as a world champion i remember

05:41that in 1978 when korshner played karpov many just uh among my friends you know just uh rooted for

05:53korshner that's normal reaction of many uh people of the soviet union so with intelligence they just

06:00saw karpov as a symbol of the system and korshner as a defector so it was kind of kitchen protest

06:07against the system and i remember i talked to my mother and she said oh yeah it would be nice of

06:14course if korshner would win but then you would not become number 13 and it was definitely symbolic that

06:25in 1983 when i played victor korshner in the semi-final and i uh i won the match petra levery korshner's wife

06:36came to my mother and remember 1983 it's soviet union andropov is is general secretary kgb is in power

06:49and the korshner is a defector and and she was talking to my mother she said gary would never

06:54beat korshkarkov in the soviet union think about running away so uh my mother said no no we'll still

07:01we hope we can win by staying staying in our country and petra gave a present in number 13 made of gold and

07:10diamonds that little necklace that she uh um made for bagel in 1978 expecting korshner to win she gave

07:21it to my mother saying that's for your good luck so that's number 13. so was it a destiny probably

07:30i think we all have an intuition uh i always thought about intuition being kind of a muscle

07:44so you don't train your muscles they get weak um to make them strong to make them um dynamic you just

07:56have to trust your intuition you have to train maybe there are different kinds of intuition but

08:04mine was based very much an ability to evaluate different factors while playing chess and uh and

08:11uh uh thus being very comfortable with positions where you could hardly find a well-known pattern

08:18so with imbalanced positions uh with broken balance positions where you know it's each mistake

08:27even inaccuracy would be lethal i spent a lot of time at the chess board uh facing many opponents

08:40but it was not just playing in tournaments or in short matches i played anatoly karpov

08:49dozens and dozens and dozens of games actually 144 games only in the world championship matches

08:56not counting few dozens of games we played outside of the world championship and i know that if you

09:02spend this time with with someone who is just sitting opposite you uh you can feel something you can

09:13make certain predictions i'm sure it works other way it works other way around so it's it's not one way

09:21streets but i have to say that i could immediately feel when my move had an effect on my opponent

09:27i remember for instance game 24 of my match against karpov in 1985 decisive game

09:36karpov had to win they build a very strong attacking position but he was not comfortable with an immediate

09:44breakthrough which was the best chance not winning but it was the best chance because it could put me

09:48under tremendous pressure and i had to find only moves to survive but karpov being karpov didn't want to

09:54break through immediately he wanted to prepare it he made a quiet move because he didn't see what i

10:00can do to prevent it and i found a very unusual maneuver highly unusual by just doubling my rooks

10:07behind my own pawns just looked ridiculous but it stopped karpov from making this advance

10:13and i remember when i made this move from k7 and karpov looked at the board

10:18so i was in disbelief

10:22and he immediately realized still world champion great player that he missed this moment he missed the

10:29moment for uh for this breakthrough and uh that was not just a moment missed because the title was at

10:39stake uh the world championship title and uh i knew when i just looked at him that his confidence was

10:48shattered and uh i ended up winning this game and um uh winning the match and winning the title

10:59the title of the soviet union of the soviet union was um fully integrated in the political system

11:11it was a very important propaganda tool for the communist regime and and uh while praying karpov

11:18especially at the time of the of the great change in the soviet union uh uh uh made me

11:26part of this process and i um i wanted to help my country because it was all about making the

11:33difference changing the system turning russia soviet union and then russia into a democratic state

11:40since i left chess i believe what i've been doing was more of human rights activism fighting for

11:47democracy trying to restore democracy in russia without big success uh but also um promoting these

11:54these values around the world i for the last several years i have been um chairman of human rights

12:03foundation new york based human rights foundation i also engaged in in social media promoting values

12:10that i believe are important and now we could see that there are many challenges not only in russia not

12:14only in countries that are not typically considered to be democratic but also there are splits in in

12:25in the free world um where all of a sudden many people believe that the values the core values of the

12:36free world are not no longer as important as they used to be um and i i didn't see any discomfort moving

12:46from professional chess into what people mistakenly call political life because i've been engaged in political

12:53fights in the soviet union chess was always an important political tool the only relevant lesson

13:00from my chess career that i could take with me into my new life was that you had to be objective

13:06while assessing the position and i had this joke some say a very sad joke saying that the difference

13:15between chess and putin's russia was that in chess we always had fixed rules and unpredictable results

13:21while in putin's russia it was exactly the opposite um but uh i was not

13:30devastated by what people some people believed was a big loss because i failed to carry the changes that i

13:38believe were vital for my country i ended up living in new york in exile but it was another part of my

13:46journey an important part of my journey an important part of my journey i did many important things and i

13:50made made a difference not as substantial as i made in the world of chess but i didn't expect to have

14:00the same accomplishments elsewhere in other walks of life because i knew chess was unique so it's a full

14:06life i feel comfortable by wearing these new hats

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