Garry Kasparov vs Boris Kantsler (1975)

Garry Kasparov vs Boris Kantsler
Junior competition 1975 · French Defense: King's Indian Attack (C00) · 1-0

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Jan-19-05		mj29479: it seems garry "the kid" was not so good as he is now as "garry-the-anti-fide-man" :)) if you computer check the game it will be seen that he missed an obvious mate and nearly contributed to the collection of 'white to play and ruin the game' :)).

Mar-13-05		Orbitkind: Please tell me where the obvious mate is. If you mean 25.Qh5+ etc then you are wrong because the black king slips the net.

Mar-13-05		hintza: <Orbitkind> There is surprisingly no defence for Black after 27.Bg3!, where White threatens g6# next move. Mate in three after 27.Bg3, I am fairly certain.

Mar-13-05		Orbitkind: But Kasparov won by move 32 so does it really matter if he could have won by move 30 in the context of the game? He obviously found a win even if not quite as efficient. Players are people and not computer therefore likely to make a less efficient forced win than a computer sometimes. But efficiency is to be praised as Capablanca probably would have said.

Mar-13-05		hintza: <Orbitkind> He won anyway, so yes the fact that he missed an earlier win does not matter as much. But since you asked where the mate was, I posted it for you.

Jan-27-06		goragoragora: Interesting to see Garry taking the White side of this, since the Black side would later be touted in Borik's book on Kasparov (rather mistakingly, I felt. Later, if 31...Kf5 32 Kf3! looks like a cute point.

Sep-18-07		dfotarou10: I think that 28. Qg4 is a mate unless I am missing something.

Sep-18-07		dfotarou10: My mistake he can play 28. Kxe5

Dec-20-07		nimzo knight: 25. d4! is a kind of move which makes you a master (of course Garry proved to be much more than that). I think 25.. Ng7 will be replied by 26. Rh1

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