Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 14:11:53 01/06/98
Anand lost his 4th game to Karpov playing white in an unusually sad manner The game began like a Caro-Kann, but soon transposed to a Queen's Gambit in which Anand found no way of developing any initiative. I can hardly remember a game where Anand played with so little fighting spirit, finally even giving away a draw. 12... Nf5 seems to be a novelty by Karpov. according to his thinking time it may well be he found it at the board while playing. Anyway it is one more example of his excellent feeling for positional chess: black seems to get quite a satisfying position without having to fear anything from 12.h4. I don't believe our computer programs are able to see much of the danger for White in the resulting endgame with bishops of different colours (often helping to draw)soon enough. You may well try. I hope Anand will recover soon: he has not more than two games to do so... Anand - Karpov [D42] FIDE Wch Novgorod (4), 06.01.1998 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Be7 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Bd3 Nc6 9.0-0 0-0 10.Re1 Bf6 11.Be4 Nce7 12.h4 Nf5 13.Qd3 Nxc3 14.bxc3 h6 15.h5 Nd6 16.Ne5 Nxe4 17.Qxe4 Bxe5 18.dxe5 f5 19.Qe2 Bd7 20.Rd1 Bb5 21.Qf3 Qe8 22.Bf4 Rc8 23.Rd4 Rc4 24.Rad1 Qf7 25.Rxc4 Bxc4 26.a3 Rc8 27.Rd4 Kh7 28.Bd2 Bd5 29.Qh3 b5 30.a4 bxa4 31.Rxa4 Rc4 32.Rxc4 Bxc4 33.Qh4 Bb5 34.c4 Be8 35.c5 Qd7 36.Bc3 Qd3 37.Qd4 Qxd4 38.Bxd4 a5 39.c6 Bxc6 40.f3 f4 41.Bb2 Be8 42.Bc1 a4 43.Bxf4 a3 44.Be3 Bxh5 45.Kf2 Be8 46.Bd4 Bc6 47.Bc3 a2 48.g3 h5 49.g4 h4 0-1 Kind regards from Dirk
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