Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 01:04:09 01/07/98
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On January 06, 1998 at 21:46:07, Howard Exner wrote: >On January 06, 1998 at 17:11:53, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote: > >>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. > >Where could have Anand held the draw? I think everything is ok until 35.c5?, which hardly helps white to solve his problems. But after the probably better 35.Qd8 Qxh5 36.Be3 it looks to me White gets the a-pawn for the h-pawn and should not have too much trouble playing for a draw. >Maybe when he forced the Queen >exchange? The opposite Bishop ending in this case looked hopeless with >black's one outside passer followed by the soon to be created one on the >king's side. Looked to me like Karpov was in the driver's seat the >entire >game. It reminded me a bit of the classic Kotov Vs Botvinnik endgame >where Botvinnik won in brilliant style. Only Anand saw the writing >on the wall and resigned before the obvious. > >> >>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. > >Yes this certainly suits Karpov's style. Capitalizing on a slight >positional edge. > >>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. > >Totally agree here. These endings seem routine for GM's yet difficult >for >machines. >> >>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 > >I'll be looking forward to reading Karpov's and Anand's post-mortem on >this game.
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