Within a couple of years, once the 15-year-old Kasparov would reach the finals of the U.S.S.R. Championship, Mikhail Tal would quip about the Bakuvian: "Garry already plays so well that he could easily play under his former family-name..."
When Garik Weinstein was only 11, chess prospects outside of his native Azerbaijan, in which he was certainly considered a star, were not yet clear. And then - as suggested by his coach, Alexander Nikitin, who was joined by his mother's family - he became Kasparov. Very timely!
Three brilliant successes followed each other, which forced people to remember the name "Kasparov". He won the Baku Cup amongst adults, where in the finals he beat Oleg Pavlenko. The U.S.S.R. Championship among juniors, in which he failed to get on the podium only because of sheer impatience. And most importantly - the game at the all-Union tournament "Pioneers against grandmasters", in which Kasparov met Karpov for the first time!
In that game, regardless of the great position he obtained, in their one on one encounter the 11-year-old Candidate Master couldn't hold but unknowingly instilled fear in the entourage of the almighty Anatoly Evgenievich. "I had a feeling then: This doesn't happen for no reason!"
And the game with Korchnoi, in which Viktor Lvovich only miraculously managed to resist, and because of which he missed the first spot among the grandmasters, clearly made it clear to everyone: a new star appeared in Soviet chess!
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