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Anatoly Karpov vs Garry Kasparov
Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Match (1990), New York, NY USA, rd 9, Oct-31
Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange Variation (D85)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Jun-30-09  Knight13: Why not 27...Rbc8?
May-13-10  Nyctalop: Perhaps because of a4-a5.
Jul-30-16
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  dernier loup de T: Even Mephisto gave the white winning continuation after the 30th move: 31.Rh4!! Karpov wasted her a golden opportunity after a splendid strategic preparation....
Jul-30-16  cunctatorg: If this is the case, it's only one more proof that the game of chess is very hard for every human being!!
Oct-31-20
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  offramp: <dernier loup de T: Even Mephisto gave the white winning continuation after the 30th move: 31.Rh4!! Karpov wasted her a golden opportunity after a splendid strategic preparation....>

Stockfish also reckons that ...


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...31.Rh4 might have been a winner.

Here's a possible line.
31. Rh4 Bc5 32. Bc1 Bf8 33. Bb2 Bg7 34. Bf6 Bxf6 35. gxf6.


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The threats are Rd3-h3, and Kg2 followed by Rd1-h1.
35...g5 36. Rh5 Nc4 37. Rxg5+ Kf8 38. Rh5 Kg8 39. Kh1+-.


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Nov-01-20  Granny O Doul: Karpov said afterward that he'd been looking at 32. Bf4 Bd6 33. Bd2 and unfortunately got ahead of himself. 32. Bc1, playing for mate in the corner, was the choice of most of the press room. Can't remember any talk about 31. Rh4 at the time.

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