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Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov
Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Match (1990), New York, NY USA, rd 12, Nov-07
Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Keres Defense (C92)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Jun-25-06  spirit: me love those 2 horses on a3 and a5
Jul-31-15  Everett: After a brief interlude of Petrov in game 10, Karpov returned to the Keres Ruy. This seemed to be the easiest of the 3 Ruy games, though throughout there seemed to be the typical amassing of k-side pieces for Kasparov and the q-side for Karpov. No direct attacks though...
Jul-28-19  Dream Warrior: Kasparov points next owesome variant: 23. Bg5! Bxg5 24. Nxg5 Rxe1+ 25. Rxe1 Qxg5 26. Qf7 Ba6 27. Re8!! Rxe8 28. Be6! - it's realy brilliant
Nov-07-20
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  offramp: Karpov's 13...Na5 was a TN.

<Jun-25-06 spirit: me love those 2 horses on a3 and a5.>

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In Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990, (Game 18) Karpov tried 13...Nb6 instead (1-0, 57).

This was the last game played in the Big Apple (a name I have decided to use for the city of New York). New York spectators had seen only 2 decisive games out of 12, but the games had been very exciting and of top quality.

The lucky Lyonnais saw 5 wins in their 12 games.

Anyway, the players seemed to be tired in this game.

<Jul-28-19 Dream Warrior: Kasparov points next awesome variant: 23. Bg5! Bxg5 24. Nxg5 Rxe1+ 25. Rxe1 Qxg5 26. Qf7 Ba6 27. Re8!! Rxe8 28. Be6! - it's really brilliant.>


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Kasparov's line is not forced, but it's more interesting than the game.
23. Bg5! Bxg5
24. Nxg5 Rxe1+
25. Rxe1 Qxg5
26. Qf7.


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26...Ba6
27. Re8!! Rxe8
28. Be6!+-


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Black could have played 23...Rc7 ±. Still, Kasparov would have been no worse than in the game.

Many thanks to <Dream Warrior> for another example of what GMs are thinking about when all we see are fairly mundane moves.

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