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Anatoly Karpov vs Vladimir Akopian
"I nail a dim Karpov" (game of the day Feb-15-2025)
Russian Club Cup (2006), Sochi RUS, rd 4, Apr-23
Slav Defense: Quiet Variation. Schallopp Defense (D12)  ·  0-1

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Apr-28-06  Knight13: 42... Ra2!! way to go! Not 42... Rxf3, eh? :) This makes me think that 41. Nf3 is a blunder.
Apr-29-06  PhilFeeley: For the whole game, white really doesn't do anything. It's black who attacks, and white doesn't defend very well.
Apr-30-06  alexandrovm: ouch! what a game by Akopian. It seems Karpov was studied a lot by him :)
Feb-15-25  stone free or die: Would someone please be so kind as to explain the pun for me?
Feb-15-25  FM David H. Levin: Hi, stoney. The title appears to be an anagram of Black's name.
Feb-15-25  stone free or die: Ah, thanks <David>. Clearly I'm not Mensa material!
Feb-15-25
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: All right, then--looks like we have our Best Game Title for February.

Impressed at how Black's pieces erupted into such violence so quickly from so quiet an opening. Has me wondering if White should have played something as radical at 12.f4 or 13.Qb3 (or f3 or c2) and allow the isolated QP just to keep pawn control over the e5 square.

Feb-15-25  DaeWang: 44 ... Bb4! (instead of ... Bxa5 winning a mere Pawn), because 46 ... Bc5+.
Feb-15-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Full credit for the pun goes to Steve Laughlin.

A bunch of his anagrams can be found on page 8 here (it takes a while to load):

https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...

Feb-15-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Teyss: Great pun perfectly fitting the game as Karpov was quite passive here as noted above. Maybe he was hoping to go into a quiet endgame where his experience and positional skills could prevail, or hoping for a draw depending on the result of the rest of the club. Also at 55 he was way past his prime.
Feb-15-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: Nice anagram pun

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