| Nov-05-03 | | Chris00nj: What do you all think... the Sicilian Alapin variation for white? I was thinking aobut trying to adopt this variation when I face the Sicilian. Most tournament players aren't used to seeing it. Many Sicilian players may be used to their previously tested strategy. This seems to have the ability to turn in the French Defense -advance variation. A non- master may have trouble adapting to a new unfamilar opening. Has anyone played it regularly? |
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| Nov-05-03 | | aragorn69: I don't really like Karpov's personality. Neither do I always enjoy his slow, cautious style. But you have to admire his genius at "winning" squares and piece placing. |
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| May-29-05 | | Everett: A trapped piece game. Is anyone still looking for these kinds of games? As far as Karpov goes, he played the open Sicilian usually, but I think the Alapin suits his style for it can leave black with an isolani, a pawn structure he worked well against. Polgar here tries to avoid it and has pawns all over the place... |
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| Sep-06-05 | | Everett: Aagaard points out 16.Qxb6 axb6 17.Bc5!, taking advantage of black's undefended h-file rook. I do think it would be better though, after the exchange on f6. |
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| Sep-11-06 | | Honey Threat: You have to hand it to Karpov. This game is a great demonstration in square control and optimal piece placement. Run through the moves repeatedly and slowly and you'll likely have an 'out of board experience' as you begin to appreciate the witchcraft of Karpovian positional chess. |
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| Mar-09-08 | | ToTheDeath: Beautiful positional dominance. Yes, Karpov could have won a pawn at many stages of the game but he preferred to keep tightening the screws until black blundered her rook away on b5. |
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| Mar-09-08 | | MichAdams: Isn't the move Ba7 a Karpov speciality? |
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| Mar-09-08 | | positionalgenius: A model game of positional play- another reason that karpov is one of the best ever. |
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| Feb-04-10 | | M.D. Wilson: The greatest tournament performance of all time, by the second greatest player of all time. |
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| Feb-04-10 | | tonsillolith: <The greatest tournament performance of all time, by the second greatest player of all time.> Second to Bobby Fischer, of course, which is why Karpov chickened out in 1972. *blink* *blink* |
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| Feb-04-10 | | M.D. Wilson: Karpov chickened out in 1972? Hmm, do you write your own history books, tonsillolith? On a good day Bobby might take third place, but only on a good day. |
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| Feb-04-10 | | Bdellovibrio: Um, the aborted match between Fischer and Karpov was to take place in 1975, not 1972. |
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| Feb-05-10 | | A Karpov Fan: nice game |
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| Feb-05-10 | | M.D. Wilson: 28. Ba7 is an interesting novelty. |
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| Feb-05-10 | | dannygjk: Interesing that people think that the human brain improves yearly. If a player is highly motivated they will study as much as needed to equal or better opponent(s). Scientists could be wrong, but I agree with them that the human brain has not changed in millenia. |
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| Feb-05-10 | | M.D. Wilson: It hasn't. Knowledge has changed, but the capacity to acquire that knowledge hasn't changed. |
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| Feb-06-10 | | A Karpov Fan: this game is genius...seemingly so simple...but simply impossible to reproduce! :-) |
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| Jul-17-10 | | fischer2009: @ chris00nj
sergei tiviakov is an expert of the white side alapin |
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Jan-23-11
 | | KingG: From Leontxo Garcia's report in the May 1994 issue of CHESS magazine: <Kasparov's neurosis was made worse when he saw that his arch enemy was going to win again. The PCA champion had to suffer in order not to lose to Gelfand, who finally settled for his sixth successive draw. That evening, during supper, Kasparov went up to Judit in his usual impetuous way: "Why did it occur to you to play 6...c4 against Karpov?" Unexpectedly, the Hungarian stood up to him: "Because I wanted to do it. I thought it was the best move at that moment and I was wrong. That's all." Judit then turned to other people around and said "I'm fed up with being treated like a five year old child."> |
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| Feb-01-11 | | duplex: Judith looks like an high school student learning positional game from a master |
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| Aug-03-12 | | Everett: <KingG> it was more like Judith was being scolded BY a 5-year old. |
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Aug-03-12
 | | perfidious: Judit and her teddy at ten is a memory which still makes me chuckle: see the first kibitz here (Alex Cherniack). |
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