Post-retirement chess Garry Kasparov

kasparov delivering speech in arizona in october 2017

in january 2011, kasparov began training american grandmaster hikaru nakamura. first of several training sessions held in new york prior nakamura s participation in tata steel chess tournament in wijk aan zee, netherlands. in december 2011, announced cooperation had come end.

kasparov played 2 blitz exhibition matches in autumn of 2011. first, in september against french grandmaster maxime vachier-lagrave, in clichy (france), kasparov won 1½–½. second longer match consisting of 8 blitz games played on 9 october, against english grandmaster nigel short. kasparov won again score of 4½–3½.

a little after that, in october 2011, kasparov played , defeated fourteen opponents in simultaneous exhibition took place in bratislava.

on april 25 , 26, 2015, kasparov played mini-match against nigel short. match consisted of 2 rapid games , 8 blitz games. kasparov won match decisively score of 8½–1½, winning 5 games on second day.

on wednesday august 19, 2015 played , won 19 games of simultaneous exhibition in pula, croatia.

on thursday 28 april , friday 29 april 2016 @ chess club , scholastic center of saint louis, kasparov played 6-round exhibition blitz round-robin tournament fabiano caruana, wesley so, , hikaru nakamura in event called ultimate blitz challenge. finished tournament third 9.5/18, behind hikaru nakamura (11/18) , wesley (10/18). @ post-tournament interview, considered possibility of playing future top-level blitz exhibition matches.

on june 2, 2016, kasparov played against fifteen chess players in simultaneous exhibition in kaiser-friedrich-halle of mönchengladbach. won games.

in 2017, kasparov came out of retirement participate in inaugural st. louis rapid , blitz tournament august 14–19, scoring 3.5/9 in rapid , 9/18 in blitz, finishing 8th out of 10 participants, included nakamura, caruana, former world champion anand, , eventual winner, aronian. tournament money earned go towards charities promote chess in africa.

candidate fide presidency

on 7 october 2013 kasparov announced candidacy world chess federation president during reception in tallinn, estonia, 84th fide congress took place. kasparov s candidacy supported former student, reigning world chess champion , fide#1 ranked player magnus carlsen. @ fide general assembly in august 2014, kasparov lost presidential election incumbent fide president kirsan ilyumzhinov, vote of 110-61.

a few days before election took place, new york times magazine had published lengthy report on viciously fought campaign. included information leaked contract between kasparov , former fide secretary general ignatius leong singapore, in kasparov campaign reportedly offered pay leong $500,000 , pay $250,000 year 4 years asean chess academy, organization leong helped create teach game, specifying leong responsible delivering 11 votes region [...] . in september 2015 fide ethics commission found kasparov , leong guilty of violating code of ethics , later suspended them 2 years fide functions , meetings.