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Subject: Nice Anand win

Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt

Date: 10:20:31 01/08/98


Anand played a very nice game against Karpov today, playing at high risk
while getting Karpov into a kind of position where from move 7 (!!!)
both left opening theory and had to play themselves without too much
preparation(nearly reminded me of old days where Tony Miles provoked
Karpov with early ...a6 and won the unusual kind of game resulting).

I call it a win because I think Karpov is probably just thinking about
resigning in move 42, taking some time while being a piece down without
any real chances for counterplay - oops, while writing this, the page
updates and scores the win for Anand.

Here's the game, the most beautiful (for my taste) from all 6:
Anand,V - Karpov,A (1-0)
1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6 3. e4 h6 4. Bxf6 Qxf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Qd2 g5 7. Bc4 Nc6
8. Nge2 Bg7 9. Rd1 Bd7 10. O-O O-O-O 11. Nb5 a6 12. Na3 g4 13. f4 gxf3
14. Rxf3 Qe7 15. c3 h5 16. Rdf1 Rdf8 17. b4 Na7 18. Nc2 Bh6 19. Qe1 Kb8
20. Bd3 Bc6 21. Nf4 Rfg8 22. d5 Be8 23. Qf2 Bg7 24. Nd4 Bd7 25. dxe6
Bxd4 26. cxd4 fxe6 27. e5 Bc6 28. Ng6 Qd8 29. Nxh8 Bxf3 30. Nf7 Qh4 31.
Qxf3 Qxd4 32. Kh1 d5 33. Rd1 Qxb4 34. Rb1 Qa4 35. Qxh5 Nc6 36. Qe2 Ka7
37. Qf2 b6 38. Rc1 Kb7 39. h3 Rc8 40. Qf6 Nd4 41. Nd8 Kb8 42. Nxe6

The computer programs I used all missed Anand's strong plan for direct
king threats with 33. Rd1 Qxb4 34. Rb1! followed by the elegant queen
moves to h5 and back to e2 (aiming at a6).

Any exceptions on strong hardware?

Kind regards from Dirk






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