The 56-year-old struggled with fast time limits in the Champions Showdown at St Louis and said afterwards: ‘I can fight all opponents, but not age’Garry Kasparov, world champion for 15 years and still the all-time No 1 in the eyes of many chess fans, lost crucial games by blunder and time forfeit as he was beaten in his latest cameo comeback, the Champions Showdown, at Saint Louis this week.
The 56-year-old’s game proved too error-prone and too slow to handle random starting positions combined with one-hour rapid and 10-minute blitz against the current world No 2, Fabiano Caruana. Kasparov lost 5-1 in rapid, though the score flattered Caruana, who benefited from a blunder and a time forfeit in two winning positions for his opponent.