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My friend, Max was excited. “See, isn’t that Garry?”
Then he was perplexed. “But this was how he looked 40 years before. What is he doing here now on the cover of ChessBase Magazine?”
“They are running a special on his ascent to the world championship through the Interzonal and the Candidates’ in which he beat Beliavsky, Korchnoi and Smyslov in succession”, I explained.
Moscow Interzonal 1982. Young Garry Kasparov contemplates his next move against Efim Geller. His anxious opponent and Misha Tal wonder what he would play. The game ended in a draw. | Photo: Boris Dolmatovsky, ChessPro
Max was bemused. “Not Smyslov! He would have retired long since after those matches with Botvinnik.”