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Boris Gelfand vs Viswanathan Anand
Linares 1993  ·  Queen's Gambit Accepted: Linares Variation (D20)  ·  0-1
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Mar-16-04  informeddissent: vishy: <"Is Anand's 9-Nb4! sound in all cases?">

Interestingly enough I looked and Anand lost a game at the same tournament on the exact same variation. Beliavsky vs Anand, 1993 His opponent declined the sacrifice.

Mar-16-04  vishyanand: Good job informeddissent!

Interesting game <informeddissent> but in that game, Anand never offered his knight as a sacrifice for his opponent to decline.

Mar-16-04
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  kevin86: Anand is up four pawns for a piece,not much of a chance for white. a recurring theme:white marks time as black advances.
Mar-16-04  mymt: Andrew Chapman- sorry I cant follow your reply to 13.Be3 followed by 14.Qc2- Nb4+ wins the Q. gerando -12.g3 Nf2.& 7.Bd2 -Shirov -Kramnik 93 1-0 but 12.Kg3? is that meant to be 12.Ng3? Good game maybe we might see someone try 10.Ng3 or 10.Nc1 before grabing that N .eg .10.Ng3 Nxc3.11.bxc3 Nd3+ 12.Bxd3 cxd3.13.Qxd3 ....?
Mar-16-04  gerando: SOrry, I meant 12 Ke3.
7 Bd2 was played the same year in Linares between Shirov and Kramnik (1-0)
Mar-16-04  lazarus: In 1996 Beliavsky played 12.e6 in a
rapid game against Computer Fritz4 (1-0 (54)
12.Ke3 Bg7 13.g3 g5 14.Bg5: Be5: 15.Bg2 Bd4+ 16.Kd2 Nb2: 17.Qb1 b4 18.Qb2: bc3: 19.Nc3: Rb8 20.Qb8: Qc3:+ 21.Ke2 0-0 and the White gave up after another 8 moves in Shishkin-Tishin Ukr Ch 2003
Mar-16-04  talchess2003: Anand just keeps rolling right over all the strong gm's =\
Mar-17-04  lazarus: In my chessdatabase I found this game
with comments by Vishy Anand. After
18...0-0! he considered the position as
winning(-+). Very probably he is right but wasn t 19.Nd3 a mistake? I believe that after 19.Ke3 the White
still have chances to draw the game
e.g.:
1)19...e5 20.g3 Bg4 21.Nd3(controls b2) Rac8 22.c5 Be2: 23.Ke2: Bd4 24.Bh3

2)19...a5 20.Nd4 Bd4: 21. Kd4: with good compensation for the material

Mar-19-04  Cyphelium: On 19. Ke3, I think I'd played 19.- f5.
Jul-27-04  chesscookie: This is such an awesome game.
Dec-23-04  GreenDayGuy: This game was total ownage all the way. Gelfand was completely destroyed.
Dec-28-04  Granite: The reason that no Nobel prize for mathamatics was given is because their was already a very prestigious award for math at the time the Nobel prize was established and Nobel didn't feel it neccesary to encrouch upon the prestige of that award. Several years later that award was disolved, and the Fields medal arose in it's place. Nobel prizes are somewhat common, while a Fields medal is extremely rare being awarded once every 4 years instead of annually, and moreso math is a harder subject.
Dec-28-04  maoam: That's a far more plausible explanation. It's difficult to believe that Nobel discounted mathematics because a prize would have been awarded to Mittag-Leffler (when it would certainly have gone to Poincare).
Feb-10-05  chesscookie: Nice Homework by Vishy. I wonder how these GMs think up these combinations..I mean, i can look at a board but I could never come up with stuff like this.
Apr-15-05  glorious defeat: lazarus is right. 19.Ke3 and white is ok
May-27-05  your brilliance: <Granite><moreso math is a harder subject> If you can prove that, I am sure you will win a Fields medal.
Oct-11-05  seeminor: 11...g6!! by anand is tremendously calm. He simply tells white he can beat him with one piece less, and he doesnt need it back!
Nov-22-05  tintin: Gotta love the Linares variation, or any variation of the QGA. I win with it all the time as black! Most people i play in tournaments (probably at a lower level than most), don't know what to do, or else just the basics, so i can easily get equality, sometimes even an advantage.
Nov-22-05  tintin: <Larsker> i am quite a bit late, but that book you refer to is one of the best game collections i have ever read! I recommend it to everyone.
Apr-11-08  sheaf: incidentally this is anands first win over gelfand.. must have been very hard to believe the kind of monster anand would become in the years to come...
Oct-27-08  dwavechess: 32/40 moves concur Rybka 3 w32 at 3 min. per move for anand.
Mar-07-09  shahjinan: < sheaf: incidentally this is anands first win over gelfand.. must have been very hard to believe the kind of monster anand would become in the years to come...>..after seeing this win, it can be guessed I guess:D
May-27-11  offramp: These wo were playing great chess even 18 years ago.
Aug-04-11  50movesaheadofyou: Anand's ideas. unequaled.
Oct-03-11  Jaideepblue: Please make this Game of the Day especially in honour of the upcoming WC match !
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