Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 22:35:14 07/23/98
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On July 23, 1998 at 14:37:37, Jeff Anderson wrote: >The final game of the match was excellent. >I think that if this last games is ever annotated by GM's they will give >15...Bd6 a "!". I'm fairly sure that Anand calculated 15...Bd6 all the way up >to where the queens were traded with 21.Qxf7 Kxf7, and saw that he had good >chances after this. He even may have aimed for a position like this with the >computer's weaknesses in mind. I agree completely ! I am sure this was the case. >I am curious too though weather 18.Qh5+ is a mistake. I would say so. Yes. >Other possibilities were >18.g3 or Fritz's preference, 18.O-O. >Jeff g3 is better than o-o because the lines after g3 allow white to stop black from castling. if white castles short and black castles long, this is not good for white. But the idea g3 Bh6 d5 exd qf5 looks interesting to me. White gets much pressure bringing the rooks on d and e file and blacks king has to remain in the centre !! You are absolutley right. But I would say BOTH games were very interesting and strong. The 7th game was not weaker. The connected passed pawns vs. the queen was very interesting. In both games anand found a way out. A fire-exit !! Without this fire-exit he would have been overplayed by Rebel. I guess he knows this and therefore his mood after the game was not the best.
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