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Chess August 2018 - Question: "Your best move?"
Alan Byron: "Probably the piece sacrifice with Bxg4 against Anatoly Karpov in a clock simul for England juniors in 1982. It was only move 13 and I had calculated it as very unclear and then went on to win when he declined the complications. Karpov awarded it one of the best game prizes and I then practically gave up chess for 20 years having reached 2300 at 18."
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[Event "25-board simultaneous (with clock)"]
[Site "Chichester"]
[Date "1982.04.13"]
[White "Karpov, Anatoly"]
[Black "Byron, Alan M"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E88"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventType "simul (rapid)"]
[SourceTitle "Chess 2018 #08"]
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d6 3. d4 g6 4. e4 Bg7 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 c6 8. Bd3 Na6
9. Nge2 Bd7 10. O-O c5 11. g4 h5 12. h3 hxg4 13. fxg4 Bxg4 14. Bg5 Bxh3 15. Ng3
Bxf1 16. Qxf1 Nb8 17. Re1 Re8 18. Re2 Nbd7 19. Rf2 Qe7 20. Nd1 Qf8 21. Bxf6
Nxf6 22. Rxf6 Bxf6 23. Qxf6 Qe7 24. Qf3 Qg5 25. Bf1 Qf4 26. Kg2 Qxf3+ 27. Kxf3
Kf8 28. a3 Ke7 29. Nf2 Rh8 30. Kg2 Raf8 31. Bd3 Rh4 32. b3 Rfh8 33. Nf1 R8h5
34. Ng3 Rh2+ 35. Kg1 Rh8 36. Nf1 R2h5 37. Ng3 Rh4 38. Kg2 Kf6 39. Kf3 Rf4+ 40.
Kg2 Kg5 41. Be2 Rfh4 42. Kf3 Rh2 43. Nf1 R8h3+ 44. Nxh3+ Rxh3+ 45. Kf2 Rxb3 46.
a4 Rb4 47. a5 Ra4 48. Kg3 Ra3+ 0-1
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BCM June 1982 p. 247 (research by offramp):
"Anatoly Karpov played a simultaneous exhibition against the BCF Junior squad on 25 boards at Westergate School on April 13th 1982. It lasted over 6 hours and the final result was +11 -4 =10.
The four winners were John Cox (Karpov vs J Cox, 1982), John Richardson, Alan Byron and the very bottom board 14-year old Edward Lee (Karpov vs Lee, 1982) of Essex.
Karpov said it was the strongest opposition he had ever met in such an event..."
Kibitzing
