John Nunn vs Gareth Anthony (1981)

John Nunn vs Gareth Anthony
Bristol 1981 · Sicilian Defense: Old Sicilian. Open (B32) · 1-0

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Dec-31-02		morphynoman2: A King's promenade! I like this game so much!

Dec-31-02		ughaibu: Very amusing.

Jan-01-03		GregorMendel: This game is awesome! The White King marches all over the board, and Black has no good moves still!

Feb-10-05		BadTemper: Strange opening... Was this a offhand game?

Feb-27-05		perfidious: This was a game on the British Grand Prix circuit; it can be found in the book Secrets of Grandmaster Chess, which is well worth a look if you can find it.

Mar-13-05		russep: Itsn;t this scilian lowenthal or something close to that.

Jan-09-06		perfidious: <russep> Yes, it's a Lowenthal at the start, then becomes a maze: in the book I mantioned above, Peter Griffiths noted that Nunn was aware of his opponent being a specialist in the Lasker-Pelikan, so wished to avoid familiar lines. The literature is the richer for Nunn's decision!!!

Dec-27-06		plang: Nunn says he played 6 N5c3 to avoid the Pelikan and admits that 6 N1c3 is the objectively better move. 9 ab is certainly a promising exchange sacrifice since black can't castle and his queen is out of play. Nunn felt that 14 Bc5 was his best chance though it must have taken some brass to play it. According to Nunn 16 Ke2 was a mistake and if black had followed up with 16..Nd5 white would have been in trouble. 16 Kd2 would have led to perpetual check as neither player has a better alternative. Clearly, black did not expect Nunn's king march. Again, Nunn gives 18..Nd5 as the best chance and provides pages and pages of analysis to show that white would have the better chances. In many of the lines (as well as several earlier in the game) the queens are exchanged buut white maintains the advantage in the endgame despite his material deficit due to black being undeveloped and whites advanced king being an asset. 19..Qe6+ 20 Qe6+ de+ 21 Kg6 is an amazing variation with threats to blacks rook and knight.

Mar-02-11		hedgeh0g: Nice king march! Was Nunn really able to see that his king could survive the onslaught or was Bc5!! more of an intuitive move?

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