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Chess Talent: Vincent meets Garryby Frederic Friedel 

10/23/2015 – He comes from a family of musicians: father teaches at the university, mother plays concert cello.

Vincent himself is a budding pianist – and a very strong chess player, as became clear in a coaching session atChessBase. So we took him to meet the 13th World Champion to get a really profound evaluation. Garry Kasparov

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Chess Talent: Vincent meets Garry

By Frederic Friedel

Here's how it began. Recently – actually at the end of August – we had a very pleasant afternoon with someinteresting visitors in our ChessBase office in Hamburg. Our guests were:

Heike and Christof Keymer, both musicians. Heike plays cello in an orchestra, Christof is a teacher of music at the

University of Hannover. She is vivacious and full of stories; he is professoral and learned, a concert pianist – as I

write these lines Christof is giving a recital in Gibraltar.

They brought along their daughter Cecilia, seven years old and one of the cutest little girls I have met in a long

while. We spent quality time bantering and teasing, which was great fun, as she has a keen sense of humour. She

plays the cello and piano.

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And then there was Vincent, who is intelligent and well-spoken, a budding pianist – but also a very strong chess

player. We are talking 2350 rating points on the current FIDE scale. ChessBase had invited him to do a coaching

session with one of our most experienced youth chess trainers, Gisbert Jacoby (who has published a number of 

DVDs for ChessBase, all in German).

After a two-hour session I asked Gisbert what he thought of Vincent's talent and comprehension of chess. "I havenever seen anything like it before," said the trainer, visibly shaken. "He is definitely better than his rating." Indeed.

"Have you ever played against a grandmaster?" I asked Vincent. He looked slightly baffled: "Sure," he said, "and I

have beaten three."

So now it is time to answer your pressing question. Ten. Jawohl, that's right: Vincent is ten years old. And he is

being hailed as Germany's greatest chess talent (see magazine cover above) since Lasker.

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So it was time to check him out properly. As chance would have it Garry Kasparov was due to attend the Aspen

Institute’s 2nd Transatlantic Conference in Berlin and give a keynote speech there. It's a good speech. You should

read it.

Now there is this tradition between Garry and me: once a year I am allowed to ask him to check out some (in my

opinion) extraordinary talent, which consists of him looking at games, sometimes analysing personally, for an

hour, with my candidate, and then giving me an opinion. I have the greatest respect for that: Garry has spotted a

number of world class players before anyone had even heard their names.

I had not dragged anyone to him for quite some time now, so I seized the opportunity of his Berlin visit and took

Vincent and his father to the beautiful WestIn Hotel to meet the legendary 13th World Champion. I warned them:

he will have very little time – he is on a two-day blitz in the city, guest of the Aspen Institute and the Germangovernment, giving interviews to news magazines and TV stations, attending dinner banquets. So a handshake and

book signing is what you should accept. Christof was perfectly satisfied: "If Vincent just gets to meet Garry

Kasparov that will be a great moment for him, it will be a big motivation in his chess career."

Well, Garry walked into the hotel, accompanied by Aspen aides, spotted us and came over. After greeting the

grown-ups he turned to the lad and said: "So, you are Vincent?! Have you brought a chessboard with you?" He

had, and Garry invited us all up to his suite in the WestIn.

What followed was a thrilling, almost two-hour session of chess analysis and discussion. Garry started off by asking

Vincent to show him some of his recent games ("against strong players"), and quizzed him on why he had chosen

certain openings and certain moves – and avoided others.

Erich Follath (above middle), a senior editor of Der SPIEGEL, the biggest news magazine in Europe, was present –

he had interviewed Kasparov on his new book " Winter is Coming", which is now available at Amazon, Barnes & 

Noble and IndieBound – as hardcover, paperback, Kindle, Nook and audio book. Read it – it will (appropriately

enough) chill your blood. I predict that the next chess story by Erich in Der Spiegel will be about Vincent and this

session.

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But back to the Kasparov training, which was sometimes extremely intense

Often Garry gave the lad contructive advice – and Vincent sucked it all in

It was a remarkable tutorial at the start of a very promising chess career 

After looking at a number of games Vincent had played, Garry switched to something different: he gave the boy

three studies to solve. They were all tough and Garry would sometimes provide a little bit of inspiration, explaining

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the geometry involved.

At one stage, when Vincent had difficulties with a study, Garry did what Bruce Pandolfini did to Josh Waitzkin in the

film "Searching for Bobby Fischer": he swept the pieces off the board and told Vincent to look for the solution in

his head.

This is a ten-year-old solving a difficult study in his mind 

Really, really hard, but the lad never gave up and in the end succeeded!

We are not showing you the studies that Garry gave Vincent to solve – that will come in a separate article some

time in the future. And then you will be able to test yourself under similar circumstances.

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In the end Vincent got a set of Kasparov books from his series " My Great Predecessors" 

After this extensive session I got Garry's assessment. Some of it should not be shared with all and sundry, but this

much can be revealed: Vincent is incredibly talented and can definitely make his way to the top of the chess world.

But he has not yet started with full, systematic training – of course not, the ten-year-old has a number of interests

and talents, and spends just an hour or two on chess per day. "He will encounter the following situation: at big

tournaments, like the World Youth Championship in Greece in a couple of weeks, he will be playing against twelve-

year-olds from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, wherever, who have been trained for eight years, by professional

chess coaches, for many hours a day. Vincent will be running purely on talent. Let us see how he fares. I'll be

watching."

Currently Vincent's family is looking for a sponsor to help with the expenses that such a chess talent brings:regular grandmaster training, travel to international tournaments (with a parent), etc. Things are looking good,

and I am sure that a major company will jump in to further his career.

Frederic Friedel

Editor-in-Chief of the ChessBase News Page. Studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of 

Hamburg and Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language. He started a

university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV. In 1986

he co-founded ChessBase.

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wow. i wish him the best.

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Recent chessbase articles had become dull and monotonous. Not this one though.

Hopefully these young budding artists will develop on their early promise and potential.

"Germany's greatest chess talent since Lasker"

And decades from now a certain Vincent will be explaining to a psychiatrist how he had a happy

childhood until the weight of the world's expectations crushed his spirit.

Speaking about Chess achievements below two are very remarkable

1. Youngest grandmaster @ 12 years, 7 months, 0 days - S. Karjakin

2. Youngest World Champion @ 22yrs-6mos-27days - G. Kasparov

Hope to see you soon on this list!

Nice story and hopefully another one of those where ChessBase spotted a future world class player

first. I wish the boy all the best! Concerning funding, Vincent's family should consider crowd

funding. Given the high popularity of chess on the Internet these days, I think that this would

have a realistic chance of working out.

Yeah, crowd funding for now. Look at the interested chess world before outside companies

Let me have a guess. One of them is the study given to Spassky, which he solved with 'Qg2!!' cry. To

which Averbakh replied tp the 9 year old boy(10?) 'you may become world champion'. It is the first

study of Endgame Challenge by Nunn... If memory serves right, it is actually 9.Qg2!

If you are not a GM by 10 you are washed up these days. 2350 is paltry. I eagerly await the first

GM not yet out of diapers. It will happen soon.

What's his newest book? Gary Kasparov on Gary Kasparov on Gary Kasparov? A book about the

book he wrote about himself? lol classic Garry. Can't wait until he sponsors this new book in the

third Anand-Carlsen championship match and give a nice inflammatory speech there to spark a fire

under Anand's ass.

gmwdim: Your comment is the most pessimistic comment I have read on the internet in years.

That is quite an accomplishment!! I for one wish Vicent the best, and it does not matter if he

becomes a chess legend or not. Kids are extremely resilient and adapt to changes and challenges

very well. He can only benefit from his experience with Mr. Kasparov!

I do not understand some of this comments.

This boy will not need a psychiatrist because it is not a expectation, it is a our wish that he get so

far.

We wish him that he come so far as he can, as long as he have fun playing chess. This boy is a

multi talent and if somebody expect from him to become world champion, I guess that he will just laugh and say

to this person "Lets see, but thank you for your support!"

About the user cyric renner: Before you write a comment, check your facts.

He is now ten years old, he do not need to be the youngest GM ever to go to the Top, but he should be GM with

the age of 13 years. He have still 3 years and kids develop very fast. His 2350 seems to be underrated as Gisbert

Jacoby said, he solved a extreme difficult study in the head ...

All this are clear indications that this boy have chess in his blood. And that means anything is possible!

Does this talented kid have the focus and discipline to devote a big part of his life to chess? I am

sure this wasn't a problem for young Karpov and Kasparov who lived in the Soviet union where

chess excellence was encouraged and rewarded.

As Fischer has stressed when talking about his high IQ, he was not a chess genius but a genius

who devoted his life to chess. As some psychologists are saying, sometimes it's better to just be above average

and have the drive than to be a genius who triumphs easily and gets what he want's without any effort. For in the

end

it is the extra effort that separate the champions from the rest. Capablanca was a natural chess talent yet was

beaten in the world championship by Alekhine who took the time to study Capablanca's games and prepared

himself extensively. And it is known that Capablanca disliked studying chess openings just like players like me.

Capablanca probably realized what his weakness was and tried to have a rematch but that

never materialized.

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