Kasparov Beats Vachier-Lagrave in Blitz: 1.5-0.5 |
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| Saturday, 17 September 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 View the game: Kasparov vs Vachier-Lagrave Chess fans are used to the fact that after his retirement Garry Kasparov tends to avoid top-level competition and prefers to play pay-per-game matches against amateurs, or hold simuls for sub-2000 rated players that end in perfect wipeouts. Nonetheless, on September 17th the French Chess Champion'10 Laurent Fressinet (2696, #51 in the world) faced the reigning French Champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2715, #29 in the world) in a mini-blitz 5m+3s/move match. The first two encounters ended in a draw, and Maxime prevailed in the Armageddon with Black. The lucky winner of the match got to face Garry Kasparov himself! This was a moment when dreams came true, as in 2010 Maxime replied in the following way to our question on whom he would like to challenge in a chess match: I'd first think of Jessica Alba (I really don't know why, but many guys immediately think of her when it comes to this stuff) :) Else Kasparov, because he's retired so I guess I won't get so many occasions to play against him. Kasparov lived up to the expectations of his numberless fans. He won with White in the Moscow Sicilian in 59 moves, and drew with Black in the Ruy Lopez in 49 moves, thus beating one of the world's top blitz players 1.5-0.5. Maybe this will inspire Garry to compete against the world's chess stars more often?!  View the game: Vachier-Lagrave vs Kasparov Photos courtesy of Philidor Mulhouse 
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