Anatoly Karpov vs Brian McCarthy (1998)

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Anatoly Karpov vs Brian McCarthy
USA-chT Amateur East (1998), Parsippany, NJ USA, rd 6, Feb-??
Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack. Fianchetto Defense (B14) · 1-0

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Apr-20-07		foolishmovesss: I recently read on Brians web site, that Karpov was working with Dzindzi at the time of this game. After the loss durring the post mortem, Karpov told Bbrian that this was his first game playing the white side of a Panov attack. Just interesting to see how the Caro master can play the white side just as well.

Apr-20-07		perfidious: Black's play here has long been known to be in error; there was a game, Tal-Pohla from the 1970s in which the same position arose after Black's seventh and Tal also played 8.Bc4.

Apr-20-07		Honza Cervenka: This game was not the first one in which Karpov has played white side of Panov attack. In fact he used it at least once before in game against our Vlasta Hort at 1980 chess olympiad in Malta. See Karpov vs Hort, 1980. But it had happened in quite distant past and so Karpov probably did not recollect it at the moment though the game was quite memorable.

Apr-20-07		foolishmovesss: It must be very difficult for a person to play Karpov in a caro from the black side. The whole time you would have to know that he knew it better then you did. Brian is a senior master too, the playing strenght of Karpov is just incredible. For me he is the best there has ever been. At his best, he was nearly unbeatable. Losing only a handful of games per year. Wish Bobby would have played him. Would have been very interesting.

Apr-20-07		DrawMachine: Sheer simplicity.

Feb-04-10		bmcc333: Hi, Some interesting comments. Karpov may have just been nice and agreed to whatever I said. I often like to agree with my opponent after a win, but he has played many games. The Hort game may have slipped his mind. Thanks for the reference. It is a bit antiquated to call this line "long known to be in error". Since the Tal game in ECO1, Nxc3 has been played many times, including Epishin (second to Karpov, and I believe he made the top 10 in the world) against Lembit Oll in 1988 and recently, in 2009 by Keith Arkell (2529). I had beaten a Canadian IM with just ignoring the d5 capture and castling. In the meantime, I found analysis in MCO that suggested Nxc3 and gave equalizing lines, although I did not study them in detail. It said after 7. Qb3 Nxc3 8. bxc3 Bg7 9. Ba3 Bf8 both taking the bishop and playing Bb2 were equal. Once I played Nxc3 and he replied Bc4, I understood he knew the theory much better, which provoked my TN of Qb6 and much consumption of time. Unfortunately, this does not stop the central theme of the Tal game to launch a single point attack on black's e5 square. In retrospect this line probably does not fully equalize. In the parking lot Dzindzi asked me why I did not play Nb6 and commented that black is good or fine. I just smiled and shrugged but I did not play this because of a game with Miles (AM Rodriguez?) where white played d5 and the game bogged down. I was intent on trying to win my 1st game with a world champion. I now think Nb6 is the best move for winning chances, d5 or not. There was a free trip to the national open for beating Karpov, although this was no real motivation to me compared with the game itself. A friend told me he heard that in a Russian magazine Karpov said I turned down the main line because Bg7-Ba3-Bf8-Bb2-Bg7 offers a draw by repetition and my team needed to win. In fact I already knew our tiebreaks were bad compared to the teams on board 2, where they had to draw to even give us a chance. In the US Amt 1st is nothing for the playoffs without the tiebreaks. I also thought my team would win without me. We won easily on board 4, Krush barely drew on board 3 and Henley was losing for most of the game on board 2. He turned the tables, but they still lost the title on tiebreak to a balanced team of (mostly) experts from Brooklyn who did go 6-0. We lost the battle but won the war to keep them from our US Amateur East title. More comments on my web page: http://webspace.webring.com/people/...

Jan-28-13		PawnSac: A very nice game by Karpov. It could make a nice GOTD so it deserves a good pun! < A pan of fryin' Brian >

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