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| Dec-05-03 | | babakova: An exciting game, definitely showing Karpovs great strength in the 70´s |
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| Dec-05-03 | | technical draw: This has got to be the wierdest game I have ever seen. How in the world can White's King be on e4 and his Queen on e3 (move 21)? |
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| Dec-05-03 | | Kenkaku: This is a strange game, it doesn't look in Karpov's style at all. |
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| Dec-05-03 | | Spitecheck: One may consider it slightly odd, perhaps this A Zaitsev is Igor Zaitsev's brother? Karpov and Zaitsev very close, might be a game played with smiles all round ;). But Karpov's not afraid to walk his king, he trusts his calculations and if that demands the king taking a quick walk in the park so be it. I'll take a look in my book on Karpov's games later see if it's in there. Heck if Fischer can castle into a pawn storm?
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| Dec-06-03 | | Spitecheck: According to Kotov and Godes, 20...h6? instead 20...e5 21. Rxg3 Nc5+ 22. Ke3 O-O 23. Rh3 Rad8 24. Bd2 Ne4 25. Kxe4 Qd5+ 26. Ke3 Qc5+ 27. Ke4 Rd4+ is winning. Spitecheck |
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| Jan-18-04 | | Orcinus: One could view chess as your king as a goal for the opponent with your pieces as obstacles and vica versa. Karpov knew well how to make the king an obstacle too and not just something to protect until endgame. |
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| May-29-04 | | Tigran Petrosian: Chessgames.com, many sources give a score of this game that goes up to move 70 or so. I will go on to say these sources are very reliable. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | Resignation Trap: The book Alexander Zaitsev by Arkhangelsky and Kimelfeld also gives a 72-move game for this encounter. |
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May-19-05
 | | perfidious: Spitecheck, Alexander Zaitsev was indeed the brother of Igor; unfortunately, he passed on the year after this game was played. |
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| Jun-21-06 | | CapablancaFan: By move 18. the white king is in the middle of the board and somehow survives? Wow. |
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| Jun-21-06 | | gilbertblondy: Me also, I've this game in 72 moves |
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| Jun-21-06 | | Willem Wallekers: what's the pun pls? |
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Jun-21-06
 | | xenophon: didn't Karpov beat up Hort in this line?I think Hort got doubled g pawns and Karpov sacrified the exchange on f5 |
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Jun-21-06
 | | chessgames.com: <Chessgames.com, many sources give a score of this game that goes up to move 70 or so.> Sorry about that, I have no idea where we got a truncated score from. We obtained the missing moves and added them to the score now. |
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| Jun-21-06 | | ArturoRivera: what if 13.-fxe4? |
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| Jun-21-06 | | Xuorarch: If 13...fxe4, then 14.Bxe5 and Black holds on to a pawn and threatens to win another. About the pun, it might refer to an old actress named Natalie Wood (I had to google to find out if such a person even existed). |
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| Jun-21-06 | | Boomie: I tried to verify the line from Kotov given by <Spitecheck> so long ago. I found that white has better than 23. Rh3 which leads to disaster. This is a bit longer than I like in a variation but it seems reasonable. Black is up a piece for two pawns but winning it against Karpov will not be a picnic. Karpov had not quite reached full strength in 1970. He finished 7th in the USSR Champs that year, 4.5 points behind Kortchnoi. So maybe Zaitsev could have won it in 1970 but probably not a couple years later. 20...e5 21. Rxg3 Nc5+ 22. Ke3 O-O 23. h6 Qf4+ 24. Qxf4 exf4+ 25. Kf2 fxg3+ 26. Kxg3 Ne4+ 27. Kg2 d2 28. Bc4+ Rf7 29. Bxf7+ Kxf7 30. Bxd2 Nxd2 31. Kf2 Nc4 32. Rd1 g5 33. Rd7+ Kg6 34. Rxb7 Kxh6 |
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| Jun-21-06 | | aktajha: move 10: "Inspired by the games of Tal, the pawns want to underscore the insecure position of the bishop on g6. The point is that h6 is not playable because of Nxg6, and it is simply not possible to switch to another diagonal by 10...Be4 11. f3 Bd5 12. c4" -- Karpov. move 14: "I forgot about 15. Nxd7 Bc6! And on 15. Qxd7 Qxd7 16. Nxd7 Bxf3 would be very unpleasant. When I saw all this, I decided to plunge into the jungle of tactical complications" -- Karpov. move 21: "It may be hard to believe, but White already has the advantage. Zaitsev should take the forced draw: 21...Nf6 22. Kxd3 Nxg4 23. fxg4 Qxf1 24. Kc2 Qxh3 25. Qxe6 Kd8 26. Qd5 Kc8 27. Qf5 Kb8 28. Bf4 and Black cannot avoid perpetual check. But how can one resist playing for mate in such a position?!" -- Karpov. |
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Jun-21-06
 | | Richard Taylor: My game shows that Karpov sacrificed a Queen move 27 Qb6 but his opponent either missed it or didn't play Nxb6 winning instantly - were Karpov and Zaitsev downing a lot of Vodkas that day? Karpov played the opening excellently but I dont see how he can just give up his Queen....lol |
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Jun-21-06
| | Richard Taylor: I tried it with "Misty Beach" and the game made sense -its not working on SJK Base But the game is fascinating - well the version on Misty Beach is. |
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| Jun-21-06 | | Jack Kerouac: <What is the pun?>
Natalie Wood; Russian born actress from the 40's, 50's,60's,70's.See 'Rebel Without a Cause'; 'Brainstorm' the movie she was making when she fell(?) overboard on husband Robert Wagners boat with Christopher Walken aboard also after a long night of drinking.
Any of this relevant? |
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| Jun-21-06 | | kellmano: This is an awesome game. The position after white's 18th is great. Both players should be proud of their creativity here. |
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| Jun-21-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <Heck if Fischer can castle into a pawn storm?> Does anyone know which Fischer game <Spitecheck> is referring to here? |
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| Jun-21-06 | | itz2000: 1.e4 c6 [Caro-Kann, I simply hate this openning!] 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Nxf6+ Nxf6 [after move 6, there's a slight advantage in my opinion in the first 6 moves of the openning, white gained a centeral pawn (d4) which is protected by Nf3 and Qd1, overprotected, which the reason for 7. Ne5!?] 7.Ne5 Bf5 [I'm not familiar with the Caro-Kann's but I think the main reason for 7.Bf5 is to pressuer on the c pawn and to help white decide to O-O instead of O-O-O] 8.c3?! [what's the rush?, Be2 IMO is better to a fast O-O, but he didn't want a pressuer on the c pawn + added protection to d pawn so he can move the queen when possible] e6 [this move invites g4, and since I think Alexander knew what he's doing, he wanted to mess white's O-O aswell! ]
9.g4 Bg6 10.h4!? [nice move, the idea is to keep up the pressuer and maybe get an advanced pawn or 2, early?] Bd6 [pressuering Ne5, in order to queen exchange + taking g4 pawn] 11.Qe2 [if Bxe5, dxe5 and the queen keep her protection on f4] c5 [black wants to earn back the center?] 12.h5 Be4 [threatens Bxh1 ] 13.f3 cxd4!? [if fxe4, Bxe5 and black has the whole center and is well positioned and protected ] 14.Qb5+ [white preper a nice attack ] Nd7! 15.Nxf7 [didn't fully understand that, was he aiming to not let black O-O while if Kxf7, fxe4 ?] Bg3+ [black dismisses Bishop's part in white sac, now he cannot earn the bishop + knight for a knight ] 16.Ke2 d3+!
17.Ke3 Qf6 18.Kxe4 Qxf7 19.Rh3 a6 20.Qg5 h6 21.Qe3 e5 22.Kxd3 Bf4 23.Qg1 0-0-0 [sort of forcing the king to move to c row - discovered knight check]24.Kc2 Bxc1
25.Rxc1 Qxa2 26.Rh2 Rhf8 27.Rd2 Qa4+ 28.Kb1 Qc6 29.Bd3 Kc7 30.Be4 Qb6 31.Qh2 Rde8 32.Rcd1 Nf6
33.Bg6 Re7 34.Re1 Qb5 35.Rde2 Nd7 36.Bf5! Rxf5?? [ In my opinion if black couldn't see the nearest getting advantage via that exchange it wasn't worth it, since it was better in my opinion to lost the e pawn and have a N+2R+Q+4pawns vs B+2R+Q+5Pawns] 37.gxf5 Qd3+ 38.Ka1 Qxf5 39.Qh4 Nf6 40.Qc4+ Kd8
41.Qc5 Nd7 42.Qd5 Kc8 43.Re4 b5 44.Qa8+ Kc7 45.Qa7+ Kd8 46.Qxa6 Qxh5 47.f4 Qf5 48.Qa8+ Kc7
49.Qa5+ Kc6 50.c4 b4 51.Qxb4 Re6 52.fxe5 Kc7 53.Qa5+ Kb7 54.Qb5+ Rb6 55.Qd5+ Kc7 56.Kb1 Qf2
57.R4e2 Qf5+ 58.Qe4 Qxe4+ 59.Rxe4 Nc5 60.R4e3 Ne6 61.Kc2 g5 62.Kc3 h5 63.b4 Ra6 64.c5 Ra3+
65.Kc4 Rxe3 66.Rxe3 h4 67.b5 Kd8 68.b6 Kd7 69.Rd3+ Kc8 70.Rd6 h3 71.Rxe6 g4 72.Rh6 black went for a pawn hunt and couldn't adapt espcially after the queen exchange.
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| Jun-21-06 | | ReikiMaster: Another bold move was 56.Kb1 putting his Rook in a pin. In the anticipated ending King is more useful nearer to the center. |
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