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Garry Kasparov vs Anatoly Karpov
Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Match (1990), Lyon FRA, rd 22, Dec-26
Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Flohr System (C92)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Oct-30-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  wwall: Or 36...Qf6 37.Qxf6 gxf6 38.Bxc5 (or 38.b6) 38...Bxc5 39.h4 should draw.

After 36...Bd6, Black threatens 37...Qa1+ 38.Bc1 Qxc1 mate.

After 37.g3, White threatens 38.Bxh6 Kxh6 39.Qg6 mate.

After 39.Bd4, White threatens 40.Qxh6+ and 40.f6 gxf6 41.Bxf6+. If 39...Kg8, then 40.Bxg7 Qxg7 41.Qxd6.

Oct-24-08  Brown: <wwall> Thanks for the analysis, though after 38.Bxh6, black could respond Qe1+
Feb-15-09
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  penarol: After this game, Kasparov arrived to 12 points and held the title. Or am I mistaken?

So the remaining two games were for the money (375.000 dollars are no peanuts...)

Feb-15-09  Jim Bartle: That's correct. Aside from the money, I'm sure Kasparov wanted to be able to say he'd won the match, rather than just retained the title.
Jul-01-09  Knight13: Still, a very nice try on the side of Karpov.
Feb-11-11  nelech: In his book Kasparov writes that 39 b6! should have won after 39 ... Nd7? and after 39... Nb7? but he does not analyse the apparently saving move : 39 ... Be5 . ( He mentionned this move in the video made after the match )
Sep-01-24
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  gezafan: In this database Karpov played the black side of the Ruy Lopez against Kasparov 15 times in their games, scoring 1 win, 5 losses and 9 draws.

Karpov played the Morphy defense, 3...a6, in all of them. 11 of the games were the Flohr variation and 4 were the Keres variation.

Why didn't Karpov try the more solid Breyer or Smyslov variations against Kasparov, instead of the sharper Flohr variation?

What would have happened if Karpov had discovered the efficacy of the Berlin variation against Kasparov? The results of their WC matches might have been very different.

Sep-01-24  Olavi: <gezafan> A similar question has been made about the 1969 WC match: why did Petrosian abandon the Petroff after two of the easiest draws imaginable?

With Karpov it was simply his ambition and self-confidence, I'm sure. In hindsight...

Remember though that the very last time they played this ultra sharp 17...f5 Karpov got the upper hand - but still didn't win. (More by an accident.) But he proved his point... Kasparov vs Karpov, 1991

Sep-01-24
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  perfidious: A remark concerning Iron Tigran's choice of opening in 1969--I do not recall by whom, however:

<'It is the author's thesis that if Petrosian had retained the nerve to bore his audiences (by playing the Petrov <perfidy>), he might have retained his world championship'.>

Spassky vs Petrosian, 1969 (kibitz #108)

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