Nov-16-03
 | | Dick Brain: Kasparov made a smart sacrifice of the minor exchange (B for N) in order to get three great minor pieces vs three clumsy minor pieces. But with the queenside and center almost hopelessly blocked and the kindsides and developments solid, it looked like both players could shift wood around until they called a draw due to boredom. But then the Devil possessed Karpov enough to cause him to weaken his kingside with 38 ... h5. This came back to burn him later when after much more woodshifting he found himself fatally weak on g6. Boring but instructive. |
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| Feb-21-06 | | olydream3: great win by kasparov |
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| Sep-16-06 | | stanleys: When I saw the game,I believed that the black were led by an amateur.Such a disappointing play by Karpov!
But the game itself is rather instructive:
1)We have to think well before executing a simple pawn move - it creates a potential weakness - see the blacks' troubles after 3...c5
2)Tarrasch said that when you have one "bad" piece,your position is bad - the reference:the black's knight jumping during the whole game from b7 to a5
3)I also liked the the restructuring of white's forces,preparing the decisive break with f4 |
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| Sep-16-06 | | enderozdemir: 48)e5 is a very good move which takes e5 square from black queen. |
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Jan-09-07
| | adalav: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHqB... |
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| Dec-31-07 | | Jim Bartle: Nice video. |
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Mar-13-08
 | | hedgeh0g: el video loca! muchos tacos e burrito! olé! |
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| Jun-30-09 | | Knight13: <enderozdemir: 48)e5 is a very good move which takes e5 square from black queen.> I disagree. It's done so that Black has to take with the d pawn instead of the queen. The Black queen can't leave e8 anyway. The taking with the d-pawn prevents Black's queen from taking on e3 and having chances of saving himself by taking advantage of the now-vulnerable White king. It also opens up the h7-b1 diagonal. So I don't really see how that really takes the e5 square from the queen. Rather, it takes away the file so that Black can't use it for countering chances. |
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| Aug-05-09 | | Everett: <Knight13> If white immediately went in for 48.Rf6+ Kg7 49.Rxd6 black has 49..Qe5, defending. Thus 48.e5 takes away the e5 square from the black queen. |
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Jan-29-11
 | | talisman: black's knight moves to a5 on move 26...and sits...kinda like you're playing a piece down at the end...anyway enjoying the '87. |
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| May-30-12 | | Anderssen99: If 50...,Bd2 Kasparov wins as follows: 51.Qf6+,Kh7. 52.Rd8,Qe6 (Or ...,Qg6). 53.Rh8 mate. My favorite game of the match and one of Kasparov's greatest games. |
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Jun-04-12
 | | offramp: 18...Bxf5. Karpov was not a King's Indian player and I don't play the King's Indian (and I know that this is not a King's Indian) but even I can see that that is wrong. Efim Geller would have played ...gxf5. |
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| Jul-27-12 | | Everett: <offramp: 18...Bxf5. Karpov was not a King's Indian player and I don't play the King's Indian (and I know that this is not a King's Indian) but even I can see that that is wrong. Efim Geller would have played ...gxf5.> It is just another way to play it. White follows <18..gxf5> with <19.Nd5 and 20.f4> and White is more comfortable than in the game IMO. I simply do not understand Karpov's fetish for ..Na5 and ..Nb7 in this game. <20..Nd8> makes much more sense, when the N touches f7, e6 and other squares from there. In truth, Karpov has two terrible pieces: the q-side N and the DSB. Just kills him in this game. |
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sac: 46.dxe4
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