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Dec-16-09
 | | Hesam7: I have already kibitzed on this game so it has been fun to compare that to what has Kasparov to say! Posting all 25 pages of analysis seems unrealistic however I will post the turning points of the game according to Kasparov: <<25... bd3?(63)>The start of a comedy of errors, which pursued the two players for three moves in succession. [...] However 25...cd3! was necessary, retaining control of c2. White does not have a great choice, and the simplest is to force an immediate draw by 26  xd3 xd3 27  xd3 cxd3 28 d7  d6 29 xb8 xb8 30 b1 (30 a4 is also possible) 30...e5 31 c3 b4 32 d2 xc3 33 xc3 xd5.> <<26 g4?(14)>Played without particular hesitation, although this places White on the verge of defeat! [...] In short, the only really dangerous move for Black was 26 c2!.> <<26...b6?>After this fairly quick and 'obvious' reply everything fell into place: Karpov began preparing to win material, while Kasparov set about assembling a striking force for storming the king's fortress [...] Thus with 26...f5! Karpov could have set me very serious problems. But this did not happen, and we effectively began a new game: left behind were all the opening tricks, the clash of the plans and the 'courteous' exchange of mistakes.> <<33...xa3?>In the end, now in desperate time trouble, Black loses his nerve and grabs the knight which has been plaguing him for so many moves.> On Black's 33rd move Kasparov comments that 33...xa3 would also lose and that the only defense was 33...d2! 34 h6 f6! 35 d6+  e8, where <White lacks the force to land a decisive blow>. |
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Jan-02-10
 | | HeMateMe: Gorgeous game. Looks like Karpov wasn't able to calculate deeply enough that Kasparov could produce a winning attack for the piece. |
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| Aug-15-10 | | Jamboree: After 31. Kh2 by Karparov, Karpov played 31. ... Rb3 and went to lose tactically. But can someone show me what exactly is wrong with simply 31. ... Qxa3 instead? Black is now a piece up and white's attack didn't get any stronger as a result. In fact, Karpov makes the exact same move two moves later, AFTER unnessarily weakening his back rank by moving the rook up and AFTER white trades off what would have been his hanging bishop. If Karpov is gonna play Qxa3 anyway, he ought to do it immediately on move 31 rather than two weakening moves later -- yes? Otherwise -- where is the tactical flaw in 31. ... Qxa3 ? (Other than the pre-existing tactical flaws in his position.) |
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Aug-15-10
 | | scormus: <He#Me> Agree totally. Tremendous complex game, full of tension and fascinatingly poised until B took the N on a3. |
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| Aug-15-10 | | SU1989: I didn't look at the players' names so I initially thought this was a game of Salo Flohr. :) |
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Aug-15-10
 | | whiteshark: and highly overrated |
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| Aug-15-10 | | Whitehat1963: Excellent game. Difficult to see what they're going to play ahead of time. |
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| Aug-15-10 | | screwdriver: Well, I can understand fully why Karpov resigned. I don't think Karpov ever resigned too early. |
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| Aug-15-10 | | iqbalian: <Whitehat1963: Par of 38 in 42 moves! Very impressive! Anyone know a longer game where the par is lower than the number of moves?>
Can anybody please explain this par of 38 in 42 moves... |
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| Aug-15-10 | | sambo: 1...e5?? |
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Aug-15-10
 | | perfidious: <screwdriver> In this respect, Karpov was the equal of Milan J'adoubovic; he too would prolong games to adjournment in order to avoid chalking up a loss for the next day's newspaper. |
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Aug-15-10
 | | RandomVisitor: 32...Rxd3 might hold... |
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| Aug-15-10 | | DWINS: <Jamboree>, In "The Mammoth Book of The World's Greatest Chess Games" by Burgess, Nunn, and Emms, 31...Rb3! is awarded an exclamation point with the comment, "This is undoubtedly the best move, by which Black keeps his pieces coordinated, prepares to neutralize White's major pieces on the third rank and gets ready to grab the piece." 31...Qxa3? gets a question mark because 32.Nh6 wins for White. The main line without their analysis of alternative moves is 32...Qe7 33.Rxg6 Ke8 34.Bxd3 Qe5+ 35.g3 fxg6 36.Bxg6+ Ke7 37.Qa3+ and a knight fork wins the Black queen. |
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Aug-15-10
 | | thegoodanarchist: Does anyone else ever look at these games and think "These guys are good"? |
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Aug-15-10
| | RandomVisitor: After 29.Qf3, Rybka would take the black king on a long walk:
click for larger view Rybka 3:
<[-0.01] d=19 29...Bd6> 30.Be3 <Kf8> 31.Bh6+ <Ke8> 32.Nf6+ <Kd8> 33.Bg5 <Kc8> 34.Bxd3 cxd3 35.Ne8 Be5 36.Qxf7 d2 37.Bxd2 Qxd2 38.Nd6+ Bxd6 39.Qe8+ <Kb7> 40.Qc6+ <Ka7> 41.Qxd6 Qd4 42.Qxg6 Bd3 43.Qg7+ Qxg7 44.Rxg7+ <Kb6> |
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Aug-15-10
 | | ajk68: Why not 32...Rxd3,? |
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Aug-15-10
| | perfidious: <ajk68> See some of the preceding comments for the answer to your question. |
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| Aug-16-10 | | rossvassilev: <ajk68: Why not 32...Rxd3?> I guess then 33.Nxc4 which loses Black the pawn and leads to an exchange of Queens. Of course, that would've been better than losing the Queen, but White would've still been up 2 pawns. "Save the pawn, lose the Queen," would be a good name for this game. |
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| Aug-16-10 | | Whitehat1963: <iqbalian>, I was referring to the "Guess-the-Move" game. In any case, as you can see at the bottom right of the board, in the gray box, the par has changed to 40. Still quite impressive for a 42-move game, especially with over 50 people having participated. |
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Aug-16-10
 | | kevin86: Black will lose material by the gobs!! |
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Aug-19-10
 | | GrahamClayton: Kasparov's cooments in "Umlimited Challenge":
"Game sixteen, however, was one of my best in the match. The clash of profound strategic plans, the sacrifices and counter-sacrifices, the mass of bewildering variations, all the quintessential features of a fight at the highest pitch of intensity which demands from the opponents all they have: this skirmish had it all. For a long time it seemed that Karpov's position was better. That impression was strengthened after his rook infiltrated my queenside to win my trapped knight. Until move thirty-two, the watching grandmasters were sure I was beaten. It was a surprising turnaround. Faced with innumerable and incalculable variations, Karpov lost control over the position and overstepped the fateful line. When, at the thirty-seventh move, I inflicted a fatal thrust against his King with an exposed pawn, the audience burst into applause. The chief arbiter, Lothar Schmid, waved his arms in the air, urging the spectators to be quiet, and for a while he succeeded. But when I returned to the stage to sign the scoresheet, the crowds erupted again. Karpov left the stage without the traditional handshake." |
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Sep-17-10
 | | sevenseaman: A good game, no doubt; but as usual Kasparov is brusque and caustic towards his opponent, a character flaw he could have done without. |
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| Jan-22-12 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: From Kasparov's comment 33...Qxa3 was wrong and the correct answer would be ...Txa3,when the natural 34. Nh6 meet Qf6! which didn't allow 35. Rxg6 nor 35. Qb4+ Qe7. Then, Karpov's mistake allowed the Kasparov tactical combination. Seems to me that when in despair, Gary throw all pieces in the board to attack, while Karpov seems like lost in paradise... didn't see any simple trap... |
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Aug-23-12
| | Hesam7: It seems to me that after <26. ... Qf5!> Black is winning. Kasparov does not come out and say this explicitly but the lines he gives look very bad for White. Here is his main line: <27. Rf3> he also looks at 27. Rg3 Kh8 28. Rf3 Qxd5 29. Ne3 Qd7! <27. ... Qxd5 28. Ba2> neither 28. Nf6+?! nor 28. Bh6? work according to Kasparov <28. ... Rd8! 29. Nf6+ gxf6 30. Rg3+ Bg7 31. Bxh6 Kh7 32. Bxg7 Ne4 33. Bxf6 Ndxf2!> "with good winning chances." -- Kasparov 
click for larger viewWhite is a pawn up but he is about to lose a piece. For example: (1) 34. Qe1 Qd1 35. Re3 Rd3 36. Re2 Rd2 37. Re3 Nxf6 38. Nxc4 Nd3 39. Qxd1 Rxd1+ 40. Kh2 Nd5 41. Rg3 Bxc4 42. Bxc4 Ne5 43. Bxd5 Rxd5 (2) 34. Rg7+ Kh6 35. Qc1+ Qd2 36. Qxd2+ Rxd2 37. Kh2 Rd7 
click for larger viewAnd White loses the bishop because 38. Be5? Rd1 39. g4 Rd2 40. g5+ Nxg5 41. Bc3 Re2 42. Kg1 Nfe4 traps the Rook and 43. Rxg5 Kxg5 44. Bxc4 Bxc4 45. Nxc4 Nxc3 46. bxc3 f5 is hopeless. |
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Aug-23-12
| | Hesam7: <RandomVisitor: After 29.Qf3, Rybka would take the black king on a long walk: Rybka 3: <[-0.01] d=19 29...Bd6> 30.Be3 <Kf8> 31.Bh6+ <Ke8> 32.Nf6+ <Kd8> 33.Bg5 <Kc8> 34.Bxd3 cxd3 35.Ne8 Be5 36.Qxf7 d2 37.Bxd2 Qxd2 38.Nd6+ Bxd6 39.Qe8+ <Kb7> 40.Qc6+ <Ka7> 41.Qxd6 Qd4 42.Qxg6 Bd3 43.Qg7+ Qxg7 44.Rxg7+ <Kb6>> Nice find! After 29. ... Bd6 30. Be3:
click for larger viewKasparov only looks at 30. ... Bxg3 31. Nf6+ Kg7 32. Qxg3. |
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