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Jonathan Speelman vs Jan Timman
London 1973  ·  Sicilian Defense: Classical. Anti-Fischer-Sozin Variation (B57)  ·  0-1
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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-23-01
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  Sneaky: Nice one by Jan.
Mar-31-06  Nobutitis: 9...Nxe4 10 Qf3! Nxc3 11 Bxf7+ Kd8
12 Nxc6+ and Bd2!

It was nice to recall Sax's old
trap here. Sax used to regularly
play 7 Ndb5, and under-rated move,
no doubt.
And 11 Be2! (rather than Speelman's
11 Bd3) looks suspiciously similar
to the tempo-up Scheveningen that
Gazz used to whip Anand with (out
of a Richter - Rauzer initially).
But I believe Anand just had ...e6 in
where here Timman has ...a6 in.
With the move (but not having ...b5!)
Black's only answer to f4! was just
...Nc6. Anand lost. 'A paint by
numbers attack by the PCA Champion
crashes through' was Seirawan's
assessment in Inside Chess at the
time.

Mar-31-06  Nobutitis: Yeah, it was Kasparov-Anand from
Linares '94, and was actually the
same opening as here: a Benko-Sozin.
Garry played the standard 7 Nb3 and
after the usual 7...e6, he played
8 Bf4!! , essentially busting
Benko's 6...Qb6 by transposing into
a tempo up Scheveningen. I have to
mention (tho who will believe me)
that I had previously discovered
the 8 Bf4!! move myself, but Garry
used it first. Cest la vie!

Incidentally, Garry's later move of
Rf3! in this game (and he also used
this same Rf3! move in a '96 game
against Anand to once again decisively whip him) certainly conclusively showed that White had winning attacking chances in this
g4 Kere's/Sheveningen line.

I mention this, since Kasparov once
rather scurrilously wrote a letter
to Karpov asking Where were White's
attacking chances? (Scurrilous, because it was written to Karpov very shortly after their '85 World
Championship match where Karpov of
course lost the decisive game when
he tried this g4 Scheveningen as
White [which is now known to basically be a bust to the Black side].) Karpov showed a great deal of diplomacy and restraint when he simply wrote back: 'Surely you have to admit that White has more attacking chances here.'

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