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ONE of the greatest chess players of all time, former world champion Garry Kasparov, met his match yesterday in Khayelitsha where he was held to a draw by an 11-year-old Cape Town pupil, Daniel Barrish.
Kasparov was in Cape Town to promote a joint venture between his foundation and a local NGO providing local chess-based mathematics and science programmes aimed at under-privileged children.
Yesterday the Russian played simultaneous chess matches against 25 young people in Khayelitsha.
After going toe-to-toe with Barrish for three hours, the international chess grandmaster surrendered to the Grade 6 SACS pupil.
Speaking to the Cape Times from his Constantia home, Barrish said it had been an honour for him to play Kasparov.
“I was very happy that I was going to play him, even more that I drew with him. I was nervous and thought I was going to lose. He made a couple of mistakes, he was moving too fast and I capitalised. He had to fight for a draw,” the 11-year-old said.
Barrish, a three-time under- 10 national chess champion, has never conceded a defeat in his age group. He also won the African chess under-10 championship and is the youngest in the Springbok chess team.
His father Jean-Claude Barrish said he was proud of him: “He is good, he has lots of talent. He has put a lot of work into it. He is doing very well academically and what I like is that he balances everything out because he also plays cricket, rugby and tennis.”
Source: http://www.iol.co.za
I found the game :
[Event “?”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2012.03.22”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Kasparov, Garry”]
[Black “Barrish, Daniël”]
[Result “1/2-1/2”]
[ECO “B52”]
[WhiteElo “2812”]
[BlackElo “1862”]
[PlyCount “92”]
[EventDate “2012.03.22”]
[SourceDate “2012.03.22”]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bxd7+ Qxd7 5. O-O Nf6 6. Qe2 g6 7. c3 Bg7 8.
d4 cxd4 9. cxd4 O-O 10. Nc3 Nc6 11. Rd1 d5 12. e5 Ne8 13. Qb5 Nc7 14. Qb3 b6
15. Be3 Na5 16. Qc2 Nc4 17. Rac1 Nxe3 18. fxe3 Bh6 19. Qe2 Rfc8 20. Rc2 Nb5 21.
Rdc1 Nxc3 22. Rxc3 Rxc3 23. Rxc3 Rc8 24. Kf2 Rxc3 25. bxc3 Qc6 26. g4 e6 27.
Qc2 Bf8 28. Nd2 Qb7 29. Qb3 b5 30. Kf3 a5 31. e4 Bh6 32. exd5 Qxd5+ 33. Qxd5
exd5 34. Nb3 a4 35. Nc5 Bd2 36. Ke2 Bxc3 37. Kd3 Ba5 38. Nd7 b4 39. Nf6+ Kf8
40. Nxd5 b3 41. axb3 axb3 42. h3 h5 43. gxh5 gxh5 44. Nf4 h4 45. Ng2 b2 46. Kc2
Bc3 1/2-1/2
Its hard enough to play a simul..as any master can tell you. Yes what this kid did was cool…but I think that it might be a little more tasteful if we didn’t rub Kasparovs nose in it so much. I mean c.mon..it’s just a simul. What..are we going to write a book on this now?
Congrats to the boy and let’s move on. It was a “normal ” game..nothing flashy about it.
@Anonymous (Friday, March 23, 2012 8:04:00 AM CDT)
Are you sure that the game is correct? After 32 exd5, it’s impossible that the kid did not use his bishop to take his knight which is hanging on d2.
I suspect the move order is wrong somewhere.
The young boy (D. Barrish) missed a potential winner there with 32..Bxd2 which could’ve netted him a piece advantage against Kasparov. Oh well, nice game and hope he becomes a cunning GM one day.
@Lawrence said :
Well, all games were here :
http://www.chessa.co.za/downloads/GKSimulCT2012.zip
This is all i know sorry.
Nice game by the kid congratulations. Thanks for posting the game score, the knight was never hanging on move 32 because the white king was in check by the queen qxd5 forcing Qxd5 and Kasparovs knight is free to move again. I think Kasparov felt a great responsibility to win all the games. He usually wins every game against simuls with very strong masters! I remember in early 90s Kasparov played simul against a few American GMs and requested copies of games of the simul players before the simul (he won every game) ! I think he takes his simuls more seriously than people think because of his great record in simuls.
Let me correct my previous comment! I looked at position one move after the position that was mentioned on move 32 and actually evaluated that position correctly ! However the real position was a move before and I think i was so in reaction to exd5 with a little bit of tiredness like Kasparov I also missed Bxd2 because it kind of “long ” move. Sorry made same mistake as Kasparov! I am sure it right the score though looks very logical game! You ask why did I look at move 1 later ? I think it has to do with because I have worked so many times i work close to midnight so I am always pushing the day number ahead in my head to keep track of right day.
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Hello. I just want to clarify, I did not say that he had to fight for a draw. That is a mistake. I was greatly honoured to play and draw against Kasparov but I of course realize I drew to Kasparov divided by 25 (thats how many players there were). I don’t want to rub it into anybodies face, I don’t want to be known as arrogant and in fact I didn’t even want this to be published. I feel a bit hurt by MikeMagnan’s comment since it feels like he is “blaming me” for drawing to Kasparov. I didn’t say what the headline of this article is and as I said, I don’t want it to be spread across the web like this. So great. Now I have to try and find each article like this and try fix it and make myself not sound like an arrogant spoilt snob.
So, Mike’s comment definitely did not make me feel much better, but anyway, I am used to it.
Thanks for the “nice” response.