“Many other universities know our name, and they even afraid of our teams, sometimes,” he said with a laugh.īeradze said Macieja should be credited for helping make this happen. “Our university became more famous now,” he said. The fact that UTRGV won the training session reflects greatly on UTRGV, Beradze said. “You can actually see how he thinks, and how he is really doing, and how he’s really playing chess. “ completely different when such a great player shares his experience,” the sophomore said. When he was 12, Beradze and nine others played against Kasparov in a simultaneous exhibition, but this was a new and different encounter, he said. “We were analyzing together, and was sharing his thoughts and his experience,” said Beradze, an international master and post baccalaureate undergraduate.
Team A’s reserve player Irakli Beradze, who substitutes for the others when necessary, could not play a game during the training session because there was no opponent for him, but he got to participate in discussion. Syugirov said the most exciting part of the training session was seeing “how Garry understands chess, how he sees all the board and pieces.” “It was great because he … talked to me that in some position, I played well, or maybe I played bad.” When analyzing Syugirov’s games, Kasparov helped him learn from his mistakes. “Many people want to talk with Garry because he has so much wisdom in chess.” “ one of the greatest players of history, and he’s also one of my favorite players,” Syugirov said. The training session was an “amazing experience” for Sanan Syugirov, a grandmaster from Team A and business administration graduate student.
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“ one of our students would be demonstrating his game, Garry Kasparov was giving feedback, but other students had some additional remarks, questions, comments, they were also free to ask during the session at any moment.” “He was ready to come and give his opinion about some hints what to do, what not to do, what should have been done and some practical advice,” he said.
The team and coach expected Kasparov would spend about half an hour or so with them, but to their surprise, Kasparov met with the team for about four hours to share advice and experiences, Macieja said. “You cannot just send in anything, so that was serious work.” “Of course, if you want to to the world’s champion, you need to make good ,” Macieja said.
Grandmaster Garry Kasparov provides advice and comments to UTRGV Team A during a training session the team won after placing first in the Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup competition in February. In turn, Kasparov selected two from each player, so eight games could be demonstrated in the traini ng session. The four players who competed in the KCF University Cup selected plays from the competition and other tournaments and provided analyses on them to present to Kasparov. Right after the tournament, the excited Team A started to prepare for the training session on March 3, Macieja said. “It’s like having a basketball training session with Michael Jordan.”
“The first prize of the tournament was the possibility of having a training session with Garry Kasparov, which everybody dreams of,” said Bartek Macieja, grandmaster and UTRGV chess coach. 6 and 7, had over 500 students in 125 teams from 24 countries participate, with UTRGV Team A placing first. The inaugural Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup, held virtually Feb. The team earned a training session with the chess legend.Īfter winning an international collegiate tournament, UTRGV Chess Team A earned a virtual training session with Garry Kasparov, a Russian grandmaster and chess legend, the team’s coach said. UTRGV Chess Team A speaks with Grandmaster Garry Kasparov March 3 after winning the Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup competition in February.
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