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Viswanathan Anand vs Anatoly Karpov
Eurotel Trophy KO (2002), Prague CZE, rd 5, May-04
Russian Game: Classical Attack. Jaenisch Variation (C42)  ·  1-0

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May-06-02  bishop: 30...Qf6? a rare oversight for Karpov,he should have played ...Qg7 or Be8 or Nd8.
Sep-06-04
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  offramp: I don't think 30....♕f6 is the lemon, because all of the other suggested moves also lose

30...♕g7 31.♕b1 b6 32.♕b5 ♘b8 33.♕c4 Anand;
30...♗e8 31.♕h8+ ♔e7 32.♗a2 Anand(32.♗g2) ;
30...♘d8 31.♗xf7 ♕g7 32.♕xg7+ ♔xg7 33.♗a2 Anand

The bad move was 27...g5 [27...g6 is better: 28.h5 g5 29.♘d5 ♕e6 30.♕h7 ♘e7±]

Feb-15-05  watchchess79: I am little new to chess. Can anybody tell me what happens if 31> .. QXf7.
Feb-15-05
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  offramp: 31...Qxf7 32.Ng6+ Ke8 33.Qh8+ Qf8 34.Qxf8#
Oct-01-21
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  plang: This was a classical game (even Anand's book classified it incorrectly. Regarding the unusual format of the tournament (from New in Chess): "Contrary to the rest of the tournament, the final consisted of two games with the classical time-control, a big switch that required considerable adjustment from the players. Anand said that he felt as if he was suddenly playing some kind of correspondence chess:'At some point I thought he was going to e-mail the next move. I was waiting for the envelope or something. I found it quite ironoc that I finished four games with Chucky in less time than we made our moves there and were still trundling along in the endgame. I got the hang of it and started to invest a lot of time.' "

Anand on 19 h4:
"Only this move offers any chance at an advantage. Given a couple of tempi, Black will drive the knight back from g5 and bring his rook to the e-file solving all his problems, so White has to act at once. It's a reflection on the depth of modern opening theory (or perhaps the size of databases) that this position has arisen more than a hundred times in recognized tournaments,"

21..Qe4 would have been better preventing Re1. 24..Re8? 25 Rxe8+..Kxe8 26 Nh5..Qg6 27 Qxf5 would have cost Black a piece while 24..Qxh4 25 Qd5!..Qf6 26 Nh5..Qg6 27 Ng3..Bd7 28 Re3 would have given White a dangerous initiative. 32 Ng6+?!..Nxg6 33 Qg8+/..Ke7 34 Bxg6..Qf3 would have given B;ack good counterplay. 51 Ne8?..Be2! would have helped Black.

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