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Nigel Short vs Garry Kasparov
Kasparov vs Short (Blitz) (2015) (blitz), St Louis, MO USA, rd 8, Apr-26
Torre Attack: Fianchetto Defense (A48)  ·  0-1

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Apr-26-15  ToTheDeath: Absolutely vicious beating to cap off the slaugh... i mean match. Kasparov really smelled blood after his win in the rapid game and didn't let up until the end. Poor Nigel will need counseling after this.
Apr-27-15  Pyke: Mate on the board ... Vicious!
Apr-27-15
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  Penguincw: Wow, mate on the board. Not often that a 2650+ player gets mated OTB. 38...Ne1# 0-1 also mates.
Apr-28-15  Conrad93: 15...c5 is brutal and very accurate.

Kasparov saw the entire combination starting with the queen check and leading to mate. He must have at least have analyzed it far enough to see that he is winning.

Very few players in the world can play this accurately under such time pressure.

Incredible!

Apr-28-15  SimplicityRichard: A very telling demonstration of Kasparov's genius!!#
Apr-29-15  maelith: Kasparov is still a monster at the chessboard.
Apr-29-15
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  Sally Simpson: This is best of the match (IMO)

I thought checkmate was the aim of the game.

Karpov, Kapsarov and even Carlsen have all been checkmated at blitz.

I don't think Kasparov would not have calculated it all from 15...c5. I'm sure that lad means intuition.

His 23rd move which looks like a total blunder and runs against the grain when playing blitz.

No undefended pieces and watch all checks.


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Gary played 23....Bd7! to open up the centre and see if he can tempt that Queen off holding g2.

But it does appear he missed a wee Queen & Knight shuggle about. (great attacking partners those two.)

Here.


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Instead of 26...Rad8 which is good and was planned when he sacked the pawn and Bishop.

How about 28...Qxg3 29.Re2 Qh4 and that looks like it's all over.

Yes I know my Nezhmetdinov 'He who analyses blitz chess is stupid.'

But he said that BK. (Before Kasparov) so little piece of stupidity every now and then is allowed.

Nov-21-15  PJs Studio: Would a match between Kasparov and Carlsen be of interest to anyone? Would it be all Carlsen?

1. I'm inclined to think Kasparov wouldn't get crushed, and 2. the world would pay BIG money to see it. (I'm sure of #2 ;)

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