Garry Kasparov's Queen Trap is Sicilian Defence

About Garry Kasparov

** Garry Kasparov is One of the greatest players of all time, Kasparov was undisputed World Champion from 1985 until 1993, and Classical World Champion from 1993 until 2000.

** young Garry Weinstein taught himself how to play chess from watching his relatives solve chess puzzles in a newspaper.

** Garry Kasparov also Known as the "Beast From Baku" on account of his aggressive and highly successful style of play, his main early influence was the combative and combinative style of play displayed by Alexander Alekhine.

** Garry Kasparov's immense natural talent was soon realized and from age 7, he attended the Young Pioneer Palace in Baku (where for some time he was known as "Garry Bronstein".*).

** Garry Kasparov was first coached by Vladimir Makogonov and later by Alexander Shakarov.

** At 10, Garry Kasparov began training at the Mikhail Botvinnik's chess school.

** At age 19, Garry Kasparov was the youngest Candidate since Robert James Fischer, who was 15 when he qualified in 1958.
At this stage, he was already the #2-rated player in the world, trailing only world champion Karpov on the January 1983 list.

** Garry Kasparov became the youngest ever world number-one, a record that lasted 12 years until being broken by Vladimir Kramnik in January 1996 and again by his former pupil, Magnus Carlsen in 2010.

** Kasparov defeated Viktor Korchnoi in London in the best-of-12 semi-final match by 7–4 (+4 -1 =6), and in early 1984 in Vilnius he defeated former World Champion Vasily Smyslov in the best-of-16 finals played by 8.5-4.5 (+4 =9 -0) to earn his challenge against Karpov.

** Kasparov's first Candidates match in Moscow was a best-of-ten affair against Alexander G Beliavsky, whom he defeated 6–3 (+4 -1 =4).

** By the time the match with Smyslov was played, Kasparov had become the number-one ranked player in the world with a FIDE rating of 2710.

About this queen trap :
** this is one of the brilliant chess game played by garry kasparov
** kasparov sacrificed the knight on e6, this is thematical sacrifice on sicilian defence
** this sacrifice leads to trap the black queen in few move
** black have few options to save the queen but he need to give up the full rook for this or he needs to sacrifice his king
** after the sacrifice on e6, black queen trapped in 2 variation and in other variation black loss the rook or full game
** this is one of the amazing example of garry kasparov's tactical vision

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