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Feb-15-06
 | | Yelena Dembo: 3 minor pieces are very often better than 2 rooks as still they are 3 against 2:) They are especially dangerous with the passed pawn - it is very easy to push it! Or if the opponent has several weaknesses! Naturally the minor pieces can also defend the K very well! Great game! |
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| Jul-27-08 | | thedarkknight: why 7Bb3???this does not waste a tempo???e.g.i don't know opening theory |
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| Sep-24-08 | | jovack: I can't say I am comfortable with Karpov's style here, but it was well played and I think I learned something from this. |
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| Sep-24-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: Nobody could play the minor pieces as well as Karpov. Great game. |
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Sep-24-08
 | | Once: A great game which deserves to be better known.
This is the key position after 14. ... b6, with white to move. 
click for larger viewNow Karpov spots that the Nc6 is vulnerable. It is attacked once and defended once. White can win it if he can drive off the defenders or add more attackers. 15. Rxd7+ Kxd7 (of course, 15...Nxd7 allows 16. Rxc6 straight away). 16. Nxb6+! Karpov needs the square a4 for his bishop, so the knight has to move away with check. 16... Bxb6 17. Ba4 Pins and wins the knight. 17...Kc8 Walks into another pin, but Rac8 did not offer much relief either. White would have played Ne5. 18. Ne5 Attacks the helpless knight a third time. It is not going anywhere and Karpov would rather take it with the knight than the bishop. 18...Kb8 Black wriggles out of the pin, but with his king on the back rank he cannot connect his rooks. 19. Nxc6+ Finally! 19. Kb7 (Kc8 walks into a discovered check with a similar line to the game). 20. Ne5 Threatens 21. Bb6+ skewering king and rook. 20...Rac8 Gets out of the potential skewer and offers an exchange of rooks which would help black. 21. Bc6+ Blocks the c file with check to avoid exchanges and give white a chance to win another pawn. 21...Ka7 22. Nxf7
click for larger viewThe end of the combination started on move 15. Karpov has won two pawns for the exchange. He also has a strong position, with far advanced bishop and knight. When I see combinations like this, I realise very clearly why I will never be a GM. |
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Sep-24-08
| | Once: <JohnBoy: What I don't understand is the motivation behind 27...Be3. White is better after 27.Kf1, but the win is not transparent to me. Is there an immediate threat? Why does black give up the two pieces?> This is the position after 27. ...Bxe3
click for larger viewBlack is hoping for 28. fe Nxe3+ 29. Ke2 Nxd1 30. Kxd1 Rxd7+ 31. Bxd7
Rd8 32. Ke2 Rxd7 when black has won back the exchange. But this is a mistake. Instead, Karpov gives up his second rook for two minor pieces with 28. Rxd5. If black had not played the dodgy 27...Bxe3, white's advantage looks fairly small to me. |
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Sep-24-08
 | | kellmano: This is an astonishing game. I am always amazed when I come across a new game like this by a famous player that i have not seen before. |
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| Sep-24-08 | | newzild: What a beauty from Anatoli |
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| Sep-24-08 | | ivan999: astonishing game |
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| Sep-24-08 | | JG27Pyth: Only have a few minutes, tried to look this over quickly... LOL. Talk about over my head. What a game, I think I need to give it a little more time~! |
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Sep-24-08
 | | kevin86: Here we have the unusual ending of three pieces vs two rooks. It is the pawns that make the difference. |
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| Sep-24-08 | | arnaud1959: < thedarkknight: why 7Bb3???this does not waste a tempo???e.g.i don't know opening theory>
Black tries to play b5 followed by c4 with tempo and  b7 at the end. But this was impossible before 6.- f6. Now after 7.-b5 White can play 8.dxc5 and later a4 to weaken black's  -side |
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| Sep-24-08 | | newton296: wow ! I cant believe the combo bombs karpov drops in the middle game here! |
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| Sep-24-08 | | HannibalSchlecter: He looks more like Kasparov in this game. |
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Sep-24-08
 | | patzer2: White's 27. Kf1 teases Black into playing 27...Bxe3?!, when 28. Rxd5!  deflects and removes the guard for a winning position.Instead, 27...Nf6 28. Bc3 Rc7 29. Nxb6 Rxd1+ 30. Bxd1 Kxb6  gives Black better survival chances. |
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| Dec-29-08 | | blacksburg: <When I see combinations like this, I realise very clearly why I will never be a GM.> though i will also never be a GM, combinations like this show very clearly that most GM's are no Karpov. this is scary good. |
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| Aug-18-09 | | humangraymatter: Such games make me say " glad to be interested in chess".Really nice one and I did not know this before .Thanks for loading it. |
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| Dec-09-10 | | hannahbelle: so lovely is the game |
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| Jul-03-11 | | positionalgenius: such a beautiful game. |
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| Aug-27-11 | | Psihadal: This game deserves more recognition.
An absolute masterpiece! |
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| Aug-31-11 | | kasparvez: What a beauty! This is vintage Karpov, and it bears the stamp of his feel for harmony in piece coordination. Pieces move, support each other, and create ever new patterns of attack and defence. Only in music one may come across such orchestration, not in chess. |
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| Aug-31-11 | | Mr. Bojangles: Sheer brilliance.
Karpov was conducting an orchestra - great music. |
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Dec-13-12
 | | Check It Out: Awesome game. |
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| May-23-13 | | vajeer: Why not 24...Nxe3 |
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May-23-13
 | | suenteus po 147: <vajeer> How would you answer 25.Rd7+? |
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sac: 15.Rxd7+
