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| Aug-08-06 | | positionalgenius: Kasparov loses another Grunfeld to Karpov-you'd think he would just give it up after falling to another karpov brilliancy like this one. |
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| Aug-23-06 | | positionalgenius: This could be my favorite Karpov game of all time.A crushing victory. |
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| Aug-23-06 | | positionalgenius: <syracrophy>LOOK AT THIS GAME.Its one of my favorite Karpov games. |
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| Mar-21-07 | | TrueFiendish: To me 29.e6 looks pretty darn strong. It could be followed by Nh5 or Nf5 with the nasty threat of Qg6. Am I missing something? |
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| Mar-21-07 | | Billy Ray Valentine: <positionalgenius: This could be my favorite Karpov game of all time.A crushing victory.> That's quite a compliment for this game, given all the great games Karpov has played over the years. My favorite Karpov games are:
Karpov vs Unzicker, 1974
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1984
Karpov vs Kasparov, 1984
and perhaps:
Karpov vs Nunn, 1982 |
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Aug-20-08
 | | ToTheDeath: Karpov played a very clear strategic game- control the center, and box in the bishop on g7. <22. Qg5!> is a star move, provoking ...h6 and denying the g7 bishop an active post at h6. A sloppy move like 22.Qd3 Qd5! (threatening e5) 23. Qc2 Bh6 gives Black counterplay. Kasparov was looking to win very badly here to prove he was the best after the drawn Seville match. Although he still won the tournament this loss was a heavy blow for him. "After he congratulated me on the victory I saw tears in his eyes." -Karpov. |
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| Sep-05-08 | | seeminor: As much as Kasparov scared the hell out of Karpov with the sicilian, Karpov returned the favour with the Grunfeld! |
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| Mar-28-10 | | SRILANKANMASTER: lol..a pretty beasy victory for Karpov, I must say..and (sigh..) No, my dear black death, the move Qg5 is not really all that much of a brilliancy. It is in fact a trifle obvious..at least, to me, but then, I AM after all, a master of some skill! :) Ah, how the lack of ability at chessgames.com that seems to follow me wherever I go, irks me to the core..sigh... |
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| Jul-17-10 | | Damianx: And i bet all the GM,s would say the same about you life is relative i can,t say it here but i bet i could about u in my field Math theory |
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| Jun-02-11 | | Everett: <SRILANKANMASTER:> He said 22.Qg5 is a star move, not a brilliancy. Good thing your chess is supposedly better than your reading comprehension. This is another excellent game from Karpov, built on the restriction of one piece to attain victory. |
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| May-02-12 | | LoveThatJoker: GOTD: Gloryland
The song "Gloryland" was the theme song for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. It's fitting for this game as it was played in the 1988 FIDE World Cup in Belfort, France. LTJ
PS. Here's more information on the song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloryl...(anthem) |
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| Jun-08-13 | | csmath: Karpov defended the variation he used to play.
18. ... Rf8 seems to be a positional imprecision and perhaps the crucial "error". The quality of chess these guyd played is truly remarkable. One positional misdirection and the opponent was fried. |
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Aug-18-15
 | | offramp: As white, Karpov beat Kasparov 7-2 with sixteen draws in all variations of the Grünfeld. Good going! |
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| Apr-23-17 | | clement41: I read somewhere today that at the time this game was played, 17 Qa4 was a novelty (17 Qc2 was the then main move) and as the game took place in Belfort (France), 17 Qa4 was subsequently dubbed the "Belfort move". |
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| Jul-10-18 | | Howard: Karpov claimed in "Chess Life" back around September, 1988 that this game got so complex that only he and Kasparov "knew what was going on". Now, that seems like a blatant exaggeration. Those two may have been by far the two strongest players back then, but no game can be THAT complicated ! |
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| Jul-10-18 | | RookFile: One way of looking at it is to ask what each side's trumps are. Karpov had an extra pawn and a strong center. All Kasparov had was some vague tactical tricks. Tricks are for kids when you're playing Karpov. |
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| Jul-11-18 | | Howard: Love that pun! Reminds me of that old joke about the rabbi and the little birds called "trids". |
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| Feb-12-21 | | fisayo123: <As white, Karpov beat Kasparov 7-2 with sixteen draws in all variations of the Grünfeld. Good going!> Karpov's positional wizardry meant he felt well at home with the central spacial advantage a hypermodern opening like the Grunfeld gives but with an open game, unlike the semi-closed structure of a King's Indian and all its weird complications. Another great positional player, Carlsen also does well against the Grunfeld. |
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| Dec-12-21 | | Allanur: When this game was about to begin, Kasparov was only few points shy of Fischer's then-record 2785 ELO. A draw or a win would have made Kasparov catch Fischer. In an interview given to Chess Life, Karpov asserted that this game was so complicated that only Kasparov and Karpov was able to understand what was going on. After the tournament that was in Rejkjavik, Kasparov attended Chess Olympiad 1988, there Kasparov was part of a campaign that asked FIDE to exclude the team results from ELO list. They were arguing an individual result obtained in team competitions should NOT affect the individual's FIDE Elo rating. :-) Then, there was a GMA World Cup in Barcelona in 1989. Kasparov attended it, prior to the event Kasparov's rating stood at 2775. After the event, he still failed to break Fischer's record but announced that he will surpass Fischer in one of the 3 upcoming tournaments: Skelleftea, Tillburg or Belgrade. Kasparov won all 3 of these events, yet still failed to overtake Fischer. In order to surpass Fischer's record He had to win with +7 scores with 0 losses or +8 with 1 loss etc, but he failed. In one of later tournaments, it was Ivanchuk who beat Kasparov and halted his rise. In one event it was Sax. |
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Dec-12-21
 | | perfidious: <Allanur....In one of later tournaments, it was Ivanchuk who beat Kasparov and halted his rise. In one event it was Sax.> There is one small snag with the above claim; Sax, same as a number of other GMs, never won a single game outright from Kasparov: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... |
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Dec-12-21
 | | keypusher: From his bio on this site. <In January 1990 Kasparov achieved the (then) highest FIDE rating ever, passing 2800 and breaking Bobby Fischer's old record of 2785. > What put him over the top? |
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Dec-12-21
 | | Diademas: These two events:
Interpolis 13th (1989) and Belgrade Investbank (1989) |
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| Dec-13-21 | | fisayo123: <Diademas> Talk about domination. Just look at the difference between 1st place and 2nd in those events |
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Dec-13-21
| | keypusher: <allanur>
<After the event, he still failed to break Fischer's record but announced that he will surpass Fischer in one of the 3 upcoming tournaments: Skelleftea, Tillburg or Belgrade. Kasparov won all 3 of these events, yet still failed to overtake Fischer. In order to surpass Fischer's record He had to win with +7 scores with 0 losses or +8 with 1 loss etc, but he failed. In one of later tournaments, it was Ivanchuk who beat Kasparov and halted his rise. In one event it was Sax.> It's weird to be so specific and so totally wrong. <fisayo123> Yes, incredible. |
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Nov-01-22
 | | saffuna: Robert Byrne in the NY Times:
<However, the real difference between this game and the previous one showed up only after Karpov substituted 20 Qd2!? for Qb2. There were two points involved: The black bishop could not now reach h6; the white queen could play to g5 at move 22, from which it generated such positional threats as Bh4 or Bg3 followed by Nf4 and h4 and h5.> <On 29 . . . Kf8, Karpov's 30 Ne4! was a quietly crushing blow. Kasparov could not play 30 . . . bc because 31 Nc5 would be too strong. For example, 31 . . . Nd2 32 Be3 Qa2 33 e6 Rf6 34 Nd7 Kg8 35 Nf6 ef 36 e7 terminates.> https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/07/... |
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