A work of art that has been prepared at home with the help of very powerful computers has less merit than if it is improvised in front of the board under the pressure of the clock, the rival and competitive tension. But it is still a work of art and – in the case of the game in this video – of extraordinary beauty. Furthermore, as Gari Kasparov often emphasizes, “to work very hard in your own training you also have to have a special talent.”
Rauf Mamedov (Baku, 1988) is one of the members of the golden generation of Azerbaijani chess players (such as Radyábov, Mamediárov or the late Gashimov) who emerged in the heat of the enormous fame of Kasparov, born in Baku in 1963 and resident in that city. until he had to flee to Moscow, in January 1990, because Armenians and Azeris were killing each other in the streets. This game makes clear his great technical quality, and his depth of concept.
