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| keypusher: Curiously, both of Miles' victories over Karpov came with Black; all 13 of Karpov's victories over Miles came with White. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Most of Miles' games with White against Karpov seem to have been drawn in about 15 moves. Here is an exception: Miles vs Karpov, 1986 |
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Jul-31-07
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| ajile: This looks to be a similar idea to the English Defense except the a and b pawns are on a6 and b5 instead of a7 and b6. The point is that the strategy is basically the same for Black. Put pressure on the big White center (specifically e4) with the Nf6 and Bb7. The nice thing about this setup (if you can get away with it) is that the advanced b pawn can be a problem for White to play Nc3. This falls into Black's strategy again of attacking e4 since a Knight on c3 protects that square. As seen in the notes Karpov had the opportunity to play e5 before Black's Nf6 but didn't do it. Fasinating game which shows how you can use pyschology to win a chess game. Tony correctly predicted that Karpov would play in his normal conservative positional style causing him to have problems in the middlegame. Also after he wasn't able to gain an advantage he made a few weak moves which lost the game entirely. Again pyschology was a factor. |
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| Jul-31-07 |
| gus inn: GM <Ray Keene> has on a former occasion given the statement that Karpovs strenght
was very limited when he was faced with new systems in the opening. |
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| Jul-31-07 |
| Troller: <gus inn> Isn't Ray Keene a little biased when giving statements about Karpov? But there is probably some truth to it. Karpov liked to select an opening and then play it for 5 years. He never switched openings on the scale of Kasparov. On the other hand, if you check his track record against more unusual openings in this database, he normally pretty much crushed them. This may of course be because the opposition was caomparatively weak. |
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| Aug-03-07 |
| PAWNTOEFOUR: i heard of this game years ago and finally decided to play over it...the notes where very helpful <themofro>...great idea! |
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| Aug-25-07 |
| Ed Trice: Yes I heard of this game eons ago myself and never had seen it. I remember being told Miles beat Karpov with "pawn to Rook 3" but for some reason I always imagined it as 1. a3 with the white pieces. Very happy to have seen this game now. Makes one believe anything is still possible. |
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| Aug-27-07 |
| HFlew: I think this is my favorite game of chess! My dad gave me 20+ years of chess life, and I stumbled across the issue that had this game (back when I hadn't been playing for very long). I remember deciding after seeing this game that you could play weird openings! :) |
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| Sep-01-07 |
| mcgee: >>On the other hand, if you check his track record against more unusual openings in this database, he normally pretty much crushed them. This may of course be because the opposition was caomparatively weak.<< The point is that Karpov would have started as favourite against anyone in the period 1975-1982/3 regardless of what opening they played & he could crush conventional and unconventional set-ups alike - yet it does seem to be a chink in the armour that once in a while the offbeat did unnerve him: Padevsky v Karpov Skopje Olympiad 1972
Haas v Karpov Skopje Olympiad 1972
Korchnoi v Karpov Hastings 1971/2
Karner v Karpov USSR ch 1972
Korchnoi v Karpov 19th match game 1974
Karpov v Keene Bad Lauterberg 1977
Karpov v Larsen Montreal 1979
Karpov v Miles Skara EUR-ch 1980
Olafsson v Karpov Buenos Aires 1980
Karpov v Belyavsky, USSR ch 1983
Yusupov v Karpov, 7th match game World CH candidates, 1989
Ljubojevic v Karpov Amsterdam 1988
Regarding this game, Black does look OK after the 19 Bxh7+ Kxh7 20 Ng5 Kg6 21 Qg4 f5 22 Qg3 Qd4 line as Miles/Keene/Fritz suggest. The main point to me seems to be that White has not yet got his king's rook into the attack and that Black vitally has the two bishops - the one on b7 cutting out a lot of potential attempts by White to swing his pieces over towards the g and h files.. |
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| Sep-01-07 |
| laskereshevsky: 2 years ago in a tournament i realized a 2140 elo fide tranche thanks too a draw by black with 1. e4 a6...my opponent was an about 2150 player, (13 years old)
I checked the international elo fide... in the next quarter-of-year period he will be ab. 2350... and 15 years old... definetlly a strong player, more then me, but he was enough astonished when i played it.... onestly i think is a doubt move .. ?! in the international chess sign..
But for shore could be a good surprise shoot.
if somebody care, i can post the game-moves....:) |
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Sep-01-07
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| Some call me Tim: Karpov was not above tossing in an unusual opening to throw off his opponent--against Korchnoi in the USSR Championship in 1973 he played a Polish Defense and won as Black. He wrote he did this precisely because Korchnoi had tried novelties against him. He also wrote that on seeing 2...b5 Korchnoi got an angry look on his face as if insulted. Objective achieved! |
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| Sep-03-07 |
| mcgee: He also played 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 e6 3 g3 b5 as Black against Speelman whilst champ at the Phillips and Drew London tournament in 1984. Karpov won the game and the tournament... |
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| Oct-28-07 |
| thesonicvision: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCW0... |
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| Mar-05-08 |
| mistreaver: Too bad Miles didn't look the same after defeat at Kasparov's hand. |
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| Apr-01-08 |
| mannetje: YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS!!!! 1...a6! turns out to be Fischer's idee! http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...
a qoute:
<If you have to play Karpov, which is quite likely, I have a cool idea. Just play 1… P-QR3. The idea is …P-QN4, …B-N2, …P-K3 and then …P-B4. I tried it, later it becomes a Sicilian, nothing special. But Karpov will be furious and will not be able to play straight. Wanna bet? He will probably try to stop you from playing in any of his tournaments. But what the hell, its worth it just to see his face, isn’t it?> |
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| Apr-01-08 |
| RookFile: Yes, that's a cute April 1 joke. |
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| Apr-01-08 |
| mannetje: lol, too bad you screwed it up, RookFile |
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Apr-01-08
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| keypusher: <mannetje: lol, too bad you screwed it up, RookFile> I don't think it would have fooled too many people, though... |
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| Apr-02-08 |
| mannetje: <Keypusher> I have fooled a couple of people at the club... they were stunned, could hardly believe it. :P |
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Apr-02-08
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| keypusher: <mannetje: <Keypusher> I have fooled a couple of people at the club... they were stunned, could hardly believe it. :P> Wow...but I was fooled by chessbase article last April 1, so there you go. |
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| Oct-31-08 |
| D4n: This is some game. |
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| Jan-24-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 1...a6 was weird |
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| Feb-01-09 |
| WhiteRook48: so to win a champion, you must push the a pawn in the opening |
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| Feb-01-09 |
| WhiteRook48: just a joke |
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| Aug-09-09 |
| MarkThornton: In June 2008, I honoured this game in the dedication to this problem:
click for larger viewThe problem is a Proof Game. The solver needs to find the unique sequence of moves that leads to the position shown, which arises after Black's 11th move. It was published in The Problemist, in September 2009. For the solution, follow this link: http://www.softdecc.com/pdb/search.... |
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| Oct-23-09 |
| Qb6: I think Karpov was annoyed because of 1. ... a6, you don't order pizza when the King visits you for dinner. |
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