there's just something about Kasparov that reeks of a lifetime away from the board that's looks to me like it has been a very unsatisfactory if not even unhappy excercise in trying to parlay undoubted excellence in the game into a intellectual halo of unassailable and unquestionable superiority, from political motivations to commercial exploitation and branding.
honestly I really hope that I'm entirely wrong about the man's life and success, but at the very least I'm convinced that Kasparov has never associated with the best available public relations and marketing minds, certainly no one equal to his genius for the game.
I get the idea that what I wrote might be misunderstood as a adhimonem or purely personal opinion, but I have just found confirmation of the memory that caused my misgivings concerning Kasparov : my father took me to see Korchnoi, Spassky, Karpov compete in the Hastings international chess congress near to the tiny town where I was born, but I never heard of Kasparov playing in this tournament and now this confirms only Fisher also never competed :
my apologies if I received a very early impression from Kasparov by the fact that he most certainly made a impression on my youth but disappointed greatly by ignoring the nearest and most wonderful setting where nobody else was above competing in.
I’m pretty happy he is making a platform like this, it’s bound to be excellent.