You have to study the Queens Gambit Declined, Queens Gambit Accepted, the Slav defense, the Nimzo-Indian, Queens Indian, the Kings Indian, the Grünfeld Defense, the Dutch and others to be able to answer correctly with White. Learn the resulting black opening systems that can follow. When you have White and you have decided to be a d4-player, begin with 1.d4 followed by 2.c4 like Kasparov does it, as this move controls important center squares. In those setups Black can equalize quickly. This would happen if he would play openings like Colle, Colle-Zuckertort, Larsen(1.b3), the White Dutch, Kings Indian Attack, Birds opening, King’s Gambit, Orang-Utan(1.b4) or other inferior setups. The reason for this is not to give away the slight opening advantage he has as White. He will not use inferior opening systems. Those are the base moves of good opening systems. When you look at the openings of Garry as White, you will find that he always plays as first move 1.e4 or 1.d4 (followed by c4) and seldom 1.c4. What can you learn from GM Garry Kasparov? Get Chess Books about Garry Kasparov – Click here! Garry’s statement of retirement (2005)

The chess world has lost something by Garry’s retirement.

He is being rated as world number one player from 1986 until his retirement in 2005 and is holding the all time highest rating of 2851 Elo. Many believe that Kasparov was the best chess player in history, I do that. He lost the title 2000 to Vladimir Kramnik. After a dispute with the FIDE he set up his own organization, the Professional-Chess-Association. In 1985 Kasparov became World Chess Champion and held the world title until 1993. He was the highest rated chess player of the world. The Russian Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov has retired 2005 from professional chess.

Kasparov chess set