Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov (1985)

Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov
Karpov-Kasparov World Championship Match (1985) · Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Flohr System (C92) · 1/2-1/2

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Oct-31-04		InfinityCircuit: Great sacrifice of three pawns here by Kasparov...does "Moskau"="Moscow"?

Oct-31-04		OJC: < infinitycircuit > The match was played in Moscow according to Gelo's 'Chess World Championships'

Jun-22-06		spirit: complex game

Jun-22-06		RookFile: I remember when watching this live how I'm impressed I was with Karpov's ...h5 and ...Kh6. I thought that was really clever.

Jun-23-06		spirit: how do u mean <RookFile>...after that "no pun intended" post of yours i take every post from you as pun...unless of course you state otherwise ;=)

Jun-23-06		RookFile: Well, maneuvers along the rook file represent the highest form of chess artistry.

Jul-03-06		spirit: aha...

Nov-18-06		Calli: A point is that on 47.f4 then if Black trys to save the e-pawn 47...Bf6 48.f5! this suggests that 46...h4 was correct after 47.Ne4 Bxe5 48.f4 Bf6 is good.

Apr-17-09		WhiteRook48: why oh why oh why

Jun-26-09		Knight13: Very hard to see all the way through the pawn sacrifices here. Would be nice to put this in Guess-The-Move!!

Aug-16-12		Psihadal: A game that involves a lot of maneuvering behind the lines. I wish we would have seen more Ruy Lopez games between these two in their earlier matches, they were always entertaining.

Aug-16-12		maelith: <Psihadal: A game that involves a lot of maneuvering behind the lines. I wish we would have seen more Ruy Lopez games between these two in their earlier matches, they were always entertaining.> "I agree with the opinion expressed by many commentators that in the art of delicate strategic manoeuvring Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov have no equals." -GM Bronstein

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