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Peter Leko vs Viswanathan Anand
Dortmund Sparkassen (2003), Dortmund GER, rd 6, Aug-06
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation (B90)  ·  0-1

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Aug-10-03  patzer2: I like seeing how Anand and other are breathing life into the old sicilian najdorf with 6...e5. This early advance used to be considered a weaking move, but Anand and others have proven that not to be the case.

In any event, this was a superb game on the part of Anand and Leko. It's good to see super GMs battling it out for the full point. Bravo!

Mar-27-06  babakova: When black wins with the Najdorf in top GM games there is always some point in the game where his position looks like swiss cheese and white seems to have a great attack rolling.
Sep-14-07  Karpova: Anand:

16...Bxc4?! (<like in Leko vs Anand, 2003 but white improves his play now. better was 16...Rxc4>)

17.Na4! (Nc3-a4-b6-d5>)

19.Qd2?! (<19.Na5! f6 20.gxf6 Nxf6 21.Qe2 Qe8 22.c4 Qf7 and he would rather want to play with white in this position>)

19...Rc6 (<forces white to play Nd5>)

25...Rf7! (<25...Qf5 26.Ne4 Rf7 27.c5! dxc5 28.d6>)

26...Qf5!
27...b5!

28.b3?! (<misses 28.Qxf5! Rxf5 29.b3! bxc4 30.bxc4>)

30...Ra8!
31.Ra4?! (<Fritz suggests 31.Rc7>) 31...Bf8!

32.a3! (<hard to find and Leko was already in mild time trouble>)

34...Qg2 (<wrong. correct was 34...Qg3! 35.Bxf6 Rxf6 36.Rch1 e4!>)

35.Bxf6 (<35.Be3!>)
36.Rg4? (<time trouble. 36.Qe3!>)

40.Rxf4? (<black would still be better after 40.Qf1 but then he had to face technical difficulties converting the advantage>)

40...Qh1+!

May-26-21
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  plang: Earlier in the year in their Monaco Blindfold game Leko had played 17 Qd2 against Anand and the game had ended in a short draw; 17 Na4 was new. 25..Qf5 26 Ne4..Rf7 27 c5!..dxc 28 d6 would have been strong for White. 27 Qxf5 would have been good enough for equality. A balanced, positional struggle would have continued after 36 Rch1; after Leko's 36 Rb4? White quickly got into trouble. After 40 Rxf4? the game was lost.
Feb-07-25  FM David H. Levin: This game's PGN is completely missing "x" to indicate capture. I'm about to submit a correction slip.

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