| Dec-15-03 |
| ZztoP: 33.Bh6 I thought was a bit pre-mature. He could have gone Be3 to make things a little more interesting. The black Queen takes the Knight on d7 and White could then drop the rook to a1 enroute to f1. Might have given him some interesting possibilities. |
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| Jan-05-04 |
| Whitehat1963: Complex and fascinating battle with a great deal to analyze! |
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| Apr-06-04 |
| Whitehat1963: Kasparov offers his knight and his queen for what seems like eternity, but Korchnoi never bites on the queen. Check it out. Complicated in the extreme. |
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| Apr-06-04 |
| Jim Bartle: According to Seirawan's Winning Chess Brilliancies, with 33. Bxh6 "in desperate time trouble, Korchnoi tosses away the draw." He suggests a long drawing sequence starting with 33. Ra8 Kg7 34 Ra7. Seirawan also quotes K as saying that his own 29 ...Rf2+ was an error, that he could have won easily with Nxd2. |
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| Sep-27-04 |
| aw1988: One of the most complicated games ever played! I wonder what junior would think if i stuck it on full analysis... |
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| Sep-30-04 |
| capablancakarpov: <Jim Bartle> Yes, 29...Rxf2+ was an error.After 29...Rxf2+ 30.Kg1 Rxd2 31.Nxe4 Rg2+ 32.Kf1 Bxh3 33.Ra8+ Kg7 34.Ra7+ Kf8 35.Ra8+ Kg7 gives Korchnoi the draw. |
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| Mar-23-05 |
| Whitehat1963: One of the more celebrated games that features the Opening of the Day. Truly a game for the ages! |
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| Mar-23-05 |
| RookFile: The Boylston chess club showed,
long ago, that 23. Kg2! would
have been a strong move.
http://world.std.com/~boylston/Harr... |
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| May-10-05 |
| offramp: A great game by Kasparov, but the knight offer 19...fxe4 was known to theory. |
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Sep-06-05
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| LIFE Master AJ: <all> I also think - that in addition to the (already named) Seirawan book - this game was annotated by the (now retired) Kasparov himself. ("The Test of Time.") |
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| Sep-06-05 |
| lentil: why not 24. Rfb1. i see no comp for the Q. |
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Sep-07-05
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| LIFE Master AJ: <lentil>
You actually ask a good question, one that I think I have heard before - White's 24th move is actually critical to the eventual outcome of the game. Although 24.fxe5, looks good for White, and appears to "just win a piece," it may not be the best move for White in that position. (Fritz chooses between Nc2 or even Qg2.) Your move is interesting - and seemingly obvious - but fails to a rather nice tactical device by Black. Here is my analysis, which was done rather quickly:
[Tempting - but incorrect - would be:
</= 24.Rfb1? Nf3+!; 25.Qxf3[],
This is forced.
(Obviously bad would be: </= 25.Bxf3?? Rxe2+; 26.Nxe2 Qxd2;  etc. ) 25...Qxd2+; 26.Ne2 Bf5!; 27.Rd1, (Box?)
This (also) might be forced.
( </= 27.Bxf5?? Rxe2+; (etc.) )
27...Bxe4; 28.Rxd2 Bxf3; 29.Raa2 Nf6; (Black is winning, or ... "minus-slash-plus.")
Black is simply up a piece. ]
I apologize if these are not the standard lines in Seirawan's (or Garry's) book, I did not look up their analysis. I just fired up Fritz 8.0 ... and took it from there. Does this answer your question?
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| Nov-07-05 |
| Jim Bartle: That's correct. Seirawan says 24. Rfb1 would be answered by 24....Nf3+ and black would win. However Korchnoi apparently figured Kasparov couldn't take the b1 pawn, and only saw Nf3 after the pawn was taken. |
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| Jan-17-06 |
| LivinFree: 23 Bd2? is a clear lemon.
The vast improvement is 23 Qd1! Qd8
24 Bg2 Bf5 ( 24...Kh8 25 Ne2) 25 fxe5
Bxe5 26 Ne2 Nxg3 (26...Qh4 27 Bf4
Bxf4 28 gxf4  . [Even 28 Rxf4! Nxf4
29 Nxf4 Qf6 30 Nc4 .]) 27 Nxg3
Qh4 28 Qb3 Bxh3 29 Bg5! Qxg5
30 Bxh3 Bxg3+ 31 Qxg3 Re2+ 32 Bg2
Qh6+ 33 Qh3! Qd2 34 Nc4 Qxd5 35 Rxf8+
Kxf8 36 Rf1+! wins.
The following also wins for White:
23 Qd1! Qb4 24 Bc2 Re7 25 Ba4 Bc8
26 Bb5! c4 27 fxe5 Rxf1 28 Qxf1
Bxe5 29 Qxc4!! Bxg3+ 30 Kg2. 1-0.
In this, if 27...Bxe5 28 Rxf8+ Kxf8
29 Bh6+ (Also 29 Ne2! leaves Black
with nothing.) Kg8 30 Nxc4! Bxc3
31 bxc3 Qxb5 32 Qf1! Re8 33 Ra5!
Now if 33...Qb3 34 Nxd6 Qc2+ 35 Kg1!,
Black cannot now aggressively move
either knight or rook, and after
35...Rd8 36 Ra7! Bd7 37 Rxd7! + .
33... Qd7 (Or 33...Qb8 - White plays
the same move)
34 g4 Ng7 35 Qf6 Rf8 36 Qxg7+ Qxg7
37 Bxg7 Kxg7 38 Nxd6 Rd8 39 Ra7+!
Kf8 (39...Kf6? 40 g5+!) 40 Rf7+!
Kg8 41 Rc7 Ba6 42 Rc6 Be2 43 Rc8
Rxc8 44 Nxc8 Bc4 (44...Bf3 45 d6!
wins.) 45 Nb6 Bb3 46 a4 Kf7 47 g5!
wins. |
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| Jan-17-06 |
| LivinFree: Kasparov's attack was unsound
throughout this game, yet Korchnoi
was unable in time pressure to find
the virtues of the beautiful consolidating move 23 Qd1!, a multi-faceted move that (1) clears the e2
square for the knight, (2) Enables the
later move of Qb3!, defending the kingside from the 3rd rank, and finally (3) supports the 'four-cushion' bishop re-routing of Bc2!-a4-b5! which literally turns the tables
on this game and would have refuted
Garry's attack outright.
Have a nice day. |
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| Jan-17-06 |
| Jim Bartle: Whoa!! Back to Seiarawan's "Winning Chess Brilliancies" (odd title: next volume to be named "Drawing Chess Brilliancies"?): Well, 23. Qd1 isn't even mentioned. Kasparov says 23. Qg2 makes the position "dynamically balanced." 23. Bd2 is definitely a mistake. |
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| Mar-19-06 |
| MrMojoRisin: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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| Aug-20-06 |
| PhilFeeley: <MrMojoRisin> Unfortunately, the link isn't about this game and Dennis didn't say which game he presented. It would have been nice to know. |
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| Aug-20-06 |
| PhilFeeley: Apparently, this is the game Dennis analysed: Kasparov vs Korchnoi, 1986 |
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| Jul-25-07 |
| thesonicvision: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-HwGOxWK... |
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| Jul-25-07 |
| thesonicvision: <33.Bh6 I thought was a bit pre-mature. He could have gone Be3 to make things a little more interesting. The black Queen takes the Knight on d7 and White could then drop the rook to a1 enroute to f1. Might have given him some interesting possibilities.> viktor the terrible had about 20
seconds to seal that move. |
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| Nov-08-07 |
| LoveThatJoker: 29...Nxd2 was the right move here for sure.
LTJ |
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| Nov-09-07 |
| stukkenjager: Can somebody tell me how to proceed after 20. a7  d7 21.xe4 |
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| Mar-22-08 |
| zev22407: To "Stukkenjager" Kasparov in his book "The test of time" wrote that after 20)N-a7 e3!? as in tha game Alburt-Olafsson 1982 played short time before his game against Korchnoi,
Alburt played 21)Q-e2 with great complications. |
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| Apr-03-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 36 Kf3?? |
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