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Anatoly Karpov vs Kenneth Smith
San Antonio (1972), San Antonio, TX USA, rd 10, Dec-01
Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen Variation. Keres Attack (B81)  ·  1-0

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Oct-15-09  birthtimes: Beautiful last 20 moves by Karpov as he illustrates how to play a rook and bishop and pawns endgame...
Oct-15-09  parisattack: It took awhile but Ken never really got his pieces out of the box. I like 14. h5 surpressing the black rook which often comes out the h-file in this line. Karpov understood rooks!
Oct-15-09  Jim Bartle: I thought it was Karpov who liked to move his pieces back to the first rank.
Oct-16-09
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  perfidious: Maybe this is why Smith stuck to poker.
Oct-16-09  AnalyzeThis: He was a 2400 guy. Wish that I was. I think that Smith put up a very reasonable fight here. Karpov showed how deadly he was at the endgame, and his will to win.
Jan-16-10  Rama: Smith was a very talented player but not in the same class as the rest of the field. (Who is?) However he put up a bunch of money for the tournament as I recall, so he played.

Is 51. Kb5! ..., the winning move?

Jul-01-12  Rick360: In defense of the late Ken Smith, one wonders how much better he might've become had he spent the 1950s in Europe. Smith learnt the game comparatively late, aged 18 in 1948.
Dec-03-20  rwbean: "Smith claimed he had never lost a tournament game on the Black side of the Scheveningen until his game with Karpov at San Antonio, 1972."

Scott vs Smith (1959) starts off as a Najdorf and then he plays 6... e6. 1-0

Here, 20... g6 is still even (not in computer-annotated score) and also 23... d5 ... 33... ♕a7 is still ok, 39... ♘a7 loses

Dec-03-20
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  perfidious: Might have been amusing if Karpov had ventured 2.d4.
Feb-27-21  tbontb: Characteristically, Karpov heads for an ending to realise the advantage. Almost immediately, 39 ....Na7 is a poor move near the time control (....b5 keeps the White plus to a minimum) after which Karpov is able to swap light-squared Bs and dominate d5. 49...Nxd5+ is the losing move after which there is no defence, as Karpov smoothly demonstrates. Instead, 49....Ng8, 50. Ka4 Ne7, 51. Nb4+ Kb7, 52. Kb5 Nc8, 53. Nc6 is more obstinate but eventually loses to the same h6 breakthrough as in the game.

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