I am not sure if I missed it, but the man with the full beard and mustache, who was working with Kasparov, is probably the most influential non-titled player of the last 37 years. He has known, and been friends with, all of the world champions during that time. Many GMs during that time, if not most, have become GMs due to his work.

He is none other than Frederic Friedel, the owner of ChessBase. What you see Garry using is a pre-ChessBase-1.0 version. Frederic gave Garry a pre-release copy (not yet versioned 1.0) of the software with the serial number 00001. It is very fitting that Garry had the very first copy of the program. He and Frederic are still good friends to this day.

I would have hidden Garry's chocolate bar.....the Toblerone gambit.

this is so sick - Gary getting pissed at the dude taking the draw with white was awesome

Toblerone was always Kasparov's chocolate of choice and he would specify it as part of his tournament riders.

While some of these junior players would go onto become grandmasters, none reached a particularly high level of international play.  Interestingly the next junior to come onto the scene was Gata Kamsky who would emigrate to the U.S. in 1989, and would later play for the world championship against Karpov in 1996.

the guy with the hat reminds me the guy with hat in  “queens gambit”

Great stuff Rob!  Thanks for sharing this blast from the past!  I’ve played in tournaments in the mid 80s with Wolf and Ilya (but never played them) my older buddy and sudo teacher a New England Life Master named Hal Terrie got beat up by both these young men several times as he watched them develop into young American Chess Superstars in the 80s.  I’m gonna send him this link, it’s gonna make his day!  Thanks again for sharing it.  I hope you find more Gens like this and the other period chess stuff you’ve been posting on your channel.  Cheers!

I like so much your channel. Many great videos from the old days.

Wolff’s prediction came true: there is no American world chess champion

Interesting to see Chessbase in 1988. It's a similar interface to my first version of Fritz, which I know was built by the same company.

First time to see this. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from the Philippines! :)

This was insane from Garry to attempt this, all of the young players went on to become IM's or GM's, Garry has had other simuls through his career, he beat the Israeli Olympic team 7-1  ! 4 x 2600gms!, I don't remember Carlsen every attempting anything like this...

Awesome documentary! Thanks!

Those juniors looked terrified of Kasparov as he entered the room. What presence!

I remember this from years ago. Quite touching

These are awesome. I had never saw this footage before. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for this Mr Clark

VHS recording in 4:3 unexpectedly leading with Arvo Pärt and Gidon Kremer? Automatic like

Kasparov was very mad with Danny Edelman repeating the position so early in the game.  I suppose Edelman should have shown more fighting spirit, but then again Kasparov could have avoided that situation by playing a different variation.  And Wolff wearing the Michael Jackson 'True Criminal' hat is interesting.  The song was released about nine months after this simul.

I feel like this story would make for a great 80s style film with the college kids as the main characters and Kasparov as some kind of mythical figure. You'd have to fictionalize a good deal to make the movie work but the movie kinda writes itself. So many characters in this one story. I love the bit about the Toblerone. Anyone know who the woman was at the restaurant? Arbiter or organizer? There's another character for the movie. I might write it myself one day if someone doesn't beat me to it.