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title: "Seneca Chess Club VP faces Russian grandmaster in exhibition"
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author: "Tiffany Hsieh"
created: 2022-06-23T15:01:35Z
updated: 2022-06-23T15:01:36Z
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# Seneca Chess Club VP faces Russian grandmaster in exhibition

More than 30 moves.

That’s how many it took for Sagar Srivastava, Vice-President of [Seneca Chess Club](https://clubs.ssfinc.ca/Student/Clubs/Details?ClubsID=CfDJ8HUPq4tOxf9Pg-STwEx5DA2_nEIVRGcU5YrvOiW1cY271qFh6-lrRuTHBwg1Oe8J-HqdS3LD2Of1BOF1GRpVVXuRllrogragmBP_-DZRI5Qy4nworf_eHULVhJsF2LrG6w), to lose the greatest chess game of his life against Russian grandmaster [Garry Kasparov](https://www.kasparov.com/biography/).

“I still can’t believe it,” said Mr. Srivastava, one of 11 participants who played Mr. Kasparov in a simultaneous chess exhibition as part of the [Collision technology conference in Toronto](https://collisionconf.com/) this week. “It was an amazing experience. I was the first one to play him and he beat everyone in the end. But I did my best and I was one of the last ones standing.”

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