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Anatoly Karpov vs Wolfgang Unzicker
FRG-ch International+ (1979), Munich FRG, rd 4, Feb-28
French Defense: Tarrasch Variation. Open System (C07)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Nov-07-22
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  FSR: Imagine having the testicular fortitude to play into Karpov's Tarrasch French. From Karpov's birth through 1988, if you played into Karpov's Tarrasch Variation and your name wasn't Korchnoi and it wasn't a simul, you would lose. Period. Except this game. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...
Nov-07-22
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  perfidious: <FSR>, not to mention that by no means was the Black side of any French Unzicker's speciality, though he scored +3-1=8 over his career in this DB in those cameos--I was surprised to learn he had played it that often, as his bread and butter was pushing that little bugger, the e-pawn, two squares at his first move.
Nov-07-22
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  FSR: perfidious> I was also surprised. What - Unzicker plays the French?! Uhlmann - Mr. French - must have been pissed off to see the other Wolfgang, a mere dabbler in the opening, show him how it's done. Contrast the classic crush Karpov vs Uhlmann, 1973.
Nov-08-22
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  keypusher: <FSR> <perfidious>

If anything would put someone off 1...e5 surely Karpov vs Unzicker, 1974 and Karpov vs Unzicker, 1975 would.

Nov-08-22
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  FSR: <keypusher> You make an excellent point. No doubt those games drove Unzicker to try 1...e6, much as Miles' ghastly record as Black against Karpov drove him to essay 1...a6.
Nov-08-22
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  perfidious: Across the years, I have noted that games such as those were what drove the Chigorin into near desuetude for Black.
Nov-09-22
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  FSR: <keypusher> Everyone knows about the 1974 Karpov-Unzicker game, a 44-move demolition featuring the famous 24.Ba7!! I didn't know about their rematch a year later. Unzicker deviated on move 12, but got annihilated in just 22 moves! He must have been very disheartened by that, and desperate to try something else. The French is a very surprising choice against Karpov - seemingly almost suicidal - but it worked out for him.

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