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Anatoly Karpov vs Tony Miles
"Bath and Beyond" (game of the day May-05-2012)
Bath TV-1pl (1983), Bath ENG, Nov-??
Caro-Kann Defense: Bronstein-Larsen Variation (B16)  ·  0-1

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Nov-18-02  refutor: wouldn't 28. Rexb7 been a lot better?
Nov-18-02  AgentRgent: 28. Rexb7 Bxc5+ 29. Kh1 Qxb7 30. Rxb7 Kxb7 And the two rooks and passed pawn are likely better than the queen.
Nov-20-02  drukenknight: back it up to the 23rd.

What about: 23 axb5 Qa2 24 Bxf7 Bxf7 25 Qg4+ Kb8 26 Re7

Nov-20-02  Cyphelium: Perhaps 26.-Nxd2 threatening 27.-Qxb1 ?
Nov-20-02  drukenknight: This is a really tricky game; now I am thinking:

23 axb5 Qa2 24 Bg4 with a view to driving the c pawn through with the help of diagonal attackers.

Nov-21-02  Cyphelium: Then I'll take your knight on d2 again.
Nov-21-02  drukenknight: well let me actually set this up and see what it looks like:

23 axb5 Qa2 24 Nxc4 Qxc4 25 b6

okay is that better?

Nov-21-02  Cyphelium: Yes. I think I have to play 26.-a6 in that case. Looks like pawn d3 is getting strong now.
Nov-22-02  drukenknight: a6? Id thought you go with d3
Nov-22-02  Cyphelium: If you play 25.b6 it seems like a bad idea for black to a/ open up the lines down to his king b/let white take his pawn on a7 So that's why I play 25.-a6
Nov-06-04  iron maiden: The database says that Karpov beat Miles 13-1 (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...)

But in addition to this Miles victory, there's Thursday's Game of the Day, Karpov vs Miles, 1980. Was this game rapid, maybe?

Nov-06-04
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  ray keene: this game was played for tv and never rated. i have also supplied notes to it which admin are welcome to put up here.
Nov-06-04  iron maiden: <ray keene> Thanks. I take it it was rapid, then.
Nov-06-04
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  ray keene: i think they had an hour each for all their moves-or something like that for a tv format. hoewever due to a tv technicians strike the game was never screened. whatever the time limit was in those days this game was unrateable-so this is miles forgotten win v karpov.
Dec-01-04  EnglishOpeningc4: karpov must really hate miles first the ...a6 game and now this
Dec-02-04  euripides: Karpov looks like a weak player in this game. If one didn't know the players, one might guess a 200-point Elo gap in Black's favour. Extraordinary.
Dec-02-04
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  ray keene: chessgames admin have my notes to this game-if you are nice to them they might put them up-cheers
Mar-09-05  mcgee: The time limit for this was two hours for the first forty moves and one hour thereafter. The game may not have been rated by FIDE but it is hardly as if they were doing TV-friendly one-hour quickplay. In ' The Complete Chess Addict ' (1988), Short's first win over Kasparov at OHRA in 1986 is described as ' only the fourth time this century a British player has beaten the world champion ' (implying that this Miles victory was valid along with Karpov v Miles Skara 1980 and Penrose v Tal, Leipzig Olympiad 1960).

This game was the finale of a tournament with eight players split into two groups playing a round-robin format whereby they played each other twice. I think there might have been the same time limit for the group games. More so than the previous Master Game tournaments, this one had the feel of a genuine small tournament rather than one conspicuously tailored for TV. Don't know about this being Miles' forgotten win against Karpov - if you were a Brit chess enthusiast in the 1980s, it was very hard to forget, even though the game was never broadcast.

Jun-01-05  WMD: Karpov was in desperate time trouble, having around a minute left to make 14 moves to avoid losing on time. He didn't make it.
Mar-23-06  AlexanderMorphy: no Karpov loves Miles...he won 13 and lost 2 against him(this one actually being unrated!)
Aug-22-09  zatara: Did they lost the notes or weren't we nice enough..?
Aug-22-09
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  ray keene: i have rescued the players comments and live footage to this game from the german edition which was broadcast and i have translated the notes into english for an english dvd called <great british chess triumphs>-it can be ordered from malcolm peins chess emporium or the uscf house of staunton in the usa i believe
Jun-08-10  wordfunph: Anatoli Karpov - Anthony Miles, Bath (England) 1983


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Analysis by Rybka 2.2n2 mp 32-bit:

1. = (0.00): 28.Rexb7 Bxc5+ 29.Bf2 Bxf2+ 30.Kxf2 Qxa4 31.Qg4+ f5 32.Qg7

2. = (0.00): 28.Rxf7 Bxc5+

3. (-0.63): 28.Rbxb7 Bxe7 29.Rxe7 Qc6 30.Bf2 Nd4 31.Bxd4 Rxd4 32.Nb3

i watched this game on video awhile back..

28.Rbxb7?...Anatoly simply missed 28.Rexb7 which resulted to 0-1 for Miles..

May-05-12  rilkefan: <? 32 Rxf5 was obvious and good. <Karpov must have been in a state of panic.>>

Why not simply write "Zeitnot" full stop?

May-05-12  LoveThatJoker: GG

LTJ

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