I remember asking "who is Svidler"?

In his annotations Svidler takes subtle revenge for some of Kasparov's comments:

After 16..a6

(translated from the dutch tournament book, annotations by Svidler):

Kasparov said that I (svidler) surely hadn't seen 14..h6 and 16...h6. That is not entirely true. I had seen h6 and didn't doubt him playing that move, and as for a6, I was just waiting for him to find a move. It is a well known fact that a lot of time is wasted on calculating moves that are not played. In a certain way I missed a6, but the same goes for the maneuver 22..Rh3 23..Rh4, that I also did not foresee..

I like:

<13.f3 P.Svidler: Then I realized that 13.f3 leads to some very interesting and promising positions and decided that I should try and have some fun. I know that it doesn't sound the way serious and professional chessplayers are supposed to think during the game, especially if it's a game against the World Champion, but that's exactly what I thought. And, after all, it worked.>

From the interview: http://www.crestbook.com/en/node/1364

<vasa: What did you feel when you first won a game against Kasparov?

That evening you had to scrape me off the ceiling – it was one of the best days in my career. The next few games were very tough for me, however – games with GK always cost me an excessive amount of energy.>

<polarmis: <Though I'm not 100% sure this was his first win!?>>

From the above NYT link, Robert Eugene Byrne wrote:

<"Svidler, three times Russian champion in the last four years, is 21 years old and had never met Kasparov over the board before.">,

<When Inside Chess Editor Michael Franett and I took our first look at this game, we were sure that Kasparov's 8...cxd4 was intended to make the d5-square safe. We didn't understand what was wrong with 11...Bd5 here, intending a line like 12.Bf3 Nf6 13.Qa4+ Qd7 14.Qxd7+ Kxd7 15.Bxd5 Nxd5 16. Nxf7 Rg8 with a reasonable game for Black. Through the wonders of e-mail our query was heard as far away as Reston, Virginia, where GM Lubosh Kavalek chimed in with the following analysis:

"You missed this: 11...Bd5 12.Bf3 Nf6 13.Bxd5 Nxd5 14.Qf3 Nf6 15. Qc6+ Nd7 16.Qd5 e6 17.Re1 Be7 18.Rxe6 (ala my game with R. Hubner, Montreal 1979) 18...fxe6 19. Nxe6 Qc8 20.Ng7+ Kf8 21.Ne6+ Ke8 22.Bg5 with vicious wishes.">

In Kavalek's line after 20...Kf8 white can win on the spot with simple and crushing 21.Bh6 and so 20...Kf8 is bad here. But an alternative 20...Kd8 does not look much better for 21.Bg5 Bxg5 22.Ne6+! Ke7 23.Nxg5 Re8 24.g3! (diagram) with winning attack.

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Maybe 21...Nf6 gives black some chances to survive after 22.Bxf6 Bxf6 23.Qxd6+ Qd7 24.Qxf6+ Kc8 25.Re1 Rd8 (diagram) but I doubt it. White has huge advantage here for sure.

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