So because it created unbalanced positions. More likely, it's the high level of uncertainty. Yeah, it's very difficult to actually go way back to the centre, and just to understand the attraction of certain openings. One masterclass goes into the King's Indian: you played that opening a lot in your career, what did you like about it? That's something that stuck in my memory.

It's Master Yoda telling Luke Skywalker that you know, unless you know how to control it, you will never succeed. It's all about you know, it's controlling emotions. And then of course, I rewatched many times. And my English was pretty lousy at the time, but still, I could understand it. And while I think almost everybody went to see the Sistine chapel and other great places in Rome, I walked around, but I also wanted to see the movie.

And after Malta we flew back to Moscow via Rome. But in 1980 we travelled to Malta, I was a member of a solid team. It made a big impression on me because it was the first Star Wars movie, actually probably the first Hollywood movie I saw on the big screen. Yeah, of course, the lesson is just it's a great impression. And I'm always hopeful there are useful advices but it's more like a personal story and it's never been done this way before, and some of the stories are very fresh because I never told them at length and I think that's what makes this masterclass, nearly 10 hours of recording, it's unique because it's much more personal than anything I did before.Īt one point you discuss the lesson you took from Master Yoda, what was that? It's more like Garry Kasparov's chess experience through the lenses of his life, events and best games. So it's the way I would look at telling stories about chess: still, you have similar components, but it's no longer, you know, a teaching process, it's not like being in a classroom. There's a different level of expertise and this time I decided to do something quite different. So I worked hard just to find the message that could work for people from different strengths categories, but this is different. That was a multi-hours progress programme that was built as a master class around advisors and students, where I could talk to them and it creates an atmosphere of teachers and experts, you know, telling you what to do, what not to do, how to evaluate the position. Garry Kasparov: You mention the other project, that's nearly five years ago, that masterclass.

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