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| Apr-25-04 | | Benjamin Lau: 55. g4! was a great move. Kasparov looks like he had a draw by fortress after 49...Rd7, I wonder how he managed to lose this game. |
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| Oct-13-04 | | nopawnintended: Ive seen other games where seirawan seemingly overlooks an opponents increasingly dangerous passed pawn and then suddenly comes up with a couple of his own +tempo! |
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| Feb-20-05 | | WMD: As Ray Keene points out in his highly original work How To Beat Gary Kasparov: 58...c3?
The losing move. He must try 58...Ra3+ 59.Kg2 Ra2! to meet 60.g6 with 60...Re2 intending ...Re8. If then 61.Rf4 Re8 62.Rf6+ Kc7 63.Rf7+ Kc6 with a draw unless White tries 64.g7 Rg8 65.Kf3 a3 66.Ra7 d4 with an unclear position. |
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| Feb-20-05 | | aw1988: It's a shame Benjamin Lau isn't around, he would surely add this one. |
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| Jun-29-05 | | calman543: How does white proceed if black plays 52. .. c2 ? |
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| Aug-16-05 | | WMD: 1998 Kingpin questionnaire with Yaz:
Q: What is your most memorable game?
A: Defeating Garry Kasparov in the 1986 Olympiad in Dubai. The Iran Contra scandal had just broken and Americans weren't exactly shining princes in the United Arab Emirates. The locals embraced me as an Arabian son and followed my games voraciously. The moves of our game were being put on a giant 4x4 metre chess board so an audience of several thousand could watch the game. Sure enough Garry and I got into a time scramble in the second time control and the poor board boy was moves behind. Finally, the time control was reached and the fellow could catch up. When it became obvious that I was going to win, a spontaneous roar of 'La, la, la' went throughout the hall. (Think of the Arabs attacking the Turkish trains in Lawrence of Arabia.) The US won the match 2.5 - 1.5. The moment was sheer magic. |
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| Feb-15-06 | | alexandrovm: I think Kasparov's position was just ok until move 50, same amount of pawns, a potential passed pawn on c4 but then, boom, and the game starts to fall down. Something similar happend to me yesterday when in a winning position I chose the wrong path and the "jogo bonito" (nicely played game, in portuguese) sank down, just like the Titanic. Here Kasparov forced a win with his potential passed pawn and miscalculated white's counterplay due to a short time in his clock. |
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| Nov-29-06 | | deadparrot: I think there are a few weak moves by black in the endgame. 47. ... Bxc5? just helps white open lines. 50. ...g5? does the same. Instead, Kasparov could have gone for a draw with a move like 47. ... Rd8. |
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| Nov-29-06 | | bane77: After 62...c2 I think 63.Rh1 wins easily because on 63...d2 square d2 is covered and black cannot check white king if he promotes queen. |
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| Nov-29-06 | | Father Merrin 1: kasparov wanted to win because it was a USA-USSR matchup during the Olympiad and the other boards were all drawish. He just overpressed for the win and lost. Seirawan was lucky. |
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| Nov-29-06 | | RookFile: A well played game by Seirawan. |
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| Jul-10-07 | | slowrobot: Can anyone explain why Seirawan is moving his rooks around like that for so many moves? Was it simply that he didn't want to move anything else, or was there some other reason? |
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Jul-11-07
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| Jul-11-07 | | RookFile: I think Seirawan had a 'can't lose' position, but needed some time to think, so he just made a few rook moves, because he knew that Kasparov couldn't do anything constructive. |
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| Aug-06-07 | | MJW 72: The loss of a game against Seirawan aggravated the situation. At this moment the battle was still uncertain. Some twenty votes were undefined, including the Soviet one. Each side had more or less fifty votes, with a small number fluctuating from day to day, because the intention to vote is a fluid state of mind in most of the cases. So, it was clear that the Soviet vote would decide. This was day -3. The Soviet delegation announced officially its support to Campomanes only hours before the new president, Alexander Chikvaitze, landed in Dubai. From this moment on, a snowball of heroic voters who wanted to help the winner grew and grew, so that the day before the election no one dared, during a big dinner, to sit at the table where Lucena and I were seated. It was an elegant gesture from Mr. Littorin, president of the European Chess Union, to cross the big Saal and to invite us to join the European delegates. |
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| Aug-06-07 | | MJW 72: From:
One Bridge Too Far
by Ricardo Calvo
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| Dec-27-07 | | notyetagm: Anyone know if this game is annotated in any major books or maazines? Thanks
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| Jan-16-08 | | JohnBoy: This is a lousy game to have as representative of white's chances in a Bg5 gruenfeld. Seirawan does nothing at all but wait for Kasparov. K tries to win from a drawn position and ends up losing. |
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| Jan-16-08 | | Riverbeast: Yes, Kasparov was done in by a 'win at all costs' mentality. It seems very often in chess, the most dangerous position is a slightly better position (or a position you think is slightly better)...you don't want to give the guy a draw, and very often you end up pressing too hard and losing. An opportunistic 'win' for Seirawan, but more of a loss by Kasparov. |
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| Feb-25-08 | | A.G. Argent: Yeah, I agree that with all those rook moves on the 1st and 2nd ranks (lost count at 18 or so) Seirawan was indeed just vamping and pushing wood, waiting for K. to show himself. Not too pretty or imaginative but, I suppose, against G. Kasparov, a W is a W. |
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| Mar-24-08 | | lentil: Took me a long time to find the win here. I think it's:
62 ... c2 63 Rh1! d2 64 g8Q c1Q (..d1Q? 65 Qc8+ Kd5 66 Rxd1 cdQ 67. Qd8+  ) 65 Rh6+, mating |
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| Dec-20-08 | | wweiss: Phenomenal endgame play by Seirawan! Kasparov can play a sequence that leads to him being a rook up w/ 62...d2, but he gets mated. 62...d2 63.g7 c2 64. g8Q! cxd1Q 65. Qc8+ Kd5 66. Qd7+ Ke5 67. Qd6# |
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| Mar-19-09 | | bunbun: wweiss, in your line what happens after 66.) ...Kc4 |
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| Jun-24-09 | | WhiteRook48: after 10 e3 white has sealed the route of the g7-bishop |
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| Jul-10-09 | | whiteshark: <Riverbeast: Yes, Kasparov was done in by a 'win at all costs' mentality. It seems very often in chess, the most dangerous position is a slightly better position (or a position you think is slightly better)...you don't want to give the guy a draw, and very often you end up pressing too hard and losing. An opportunistic 'win' for Seirawan, but more of a loss by Kasparov.> All true. Kasparow's (fresh world champion at the time) desperate winning attempts have to be seen in connection with England's 4:0 win vs Iceland in the same 8th round. England took over the lead. Finally USSR won the good medal with a 4:0 last round win vs Poland*, being 0,5 board points ahead of England team. For more details
--> http://www.olimpbase.org/1986/1986i...
* <However there were quite serious suspicions (unsolved until today) that the Poles were forced not to disturb the Soviets because of obvious political reasons.> |
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