I Wanted to Win to Free Myself. Gata Kamsky Reveals Himself

Gata Kamsky was considered to be one of the most promising players of the end of the 20th century. To date, he still holds the record of being the youngest player to ever beat the World Champion in classical chess. Still, only a few people know what Gata had to go through to reach the top. Gata Kamsky, World Championship contender and 2007 World Cup winner tells us about the flip side of success that talented athletes often have to deal with. 0:00 Meeting our guest 11:17 Childhood of a prodigy 37:17 Moving over to the U.S. 43:10 Chess at the highest level 1:06:38 Victory over Kasparov, match against Karpov and the "Lasker method" 1:14:27 Retiring from chess 1:23:34 Triumphal return. Games against Carlsen. Winning the World Cup 1:35:32 Match against Topalov 1:44:36 On Boris Gelfand 1:54:29 Why we play chess? ✅ Sign up to the channel https://bit.ly/LevitovChessWorld and don't forget to click on 🛎️ 🎥 Our Twitch channel-   / levitovchess   Don't miss what's most important for you on the Levitov Chess World channel: we regularly do commentary with the best chess players; we analyse the games of the leading players we release educational content; we teach chess to the beginners; we have a look as various chess contents, and many more #chess #levitovchess #podcast #interview