Author: Vine Smith
Date: 04:30:27 07/28/03
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The stem game is apparently Anand - Kasparov, Intel PCA World Ch, 1995, Game 7. We shouldn't feel too badly for any programs that miss this, because in his annotations in the now defunct "Inside Chess" magazine, GM Yasser Seirawan comments after Kasparov's correct 16...dxe5: "Kasparov had obviously studied the position beforehand, as he played this move with great confidence. Another tempting possibility is to keep the tension between the d6- and e5-pawns by playing 16...Nfd5 17.Nxd5 Nxd5, aiming at the f4-pawn. It is conceivable that Kasparov wanted to avoid 18.exd6 Qxd6 19.Ne5, planning a Bishop sacrifice against the h7-pawn." So a 2600+ GM, well aware of the Bxh7+ theme, taking his time studying the position, misses that it is possible with no further preparation. The sequence 16...Nfd5 17.Bxh7+ is not in ECO vol. B, but 16...dxe5 is marked "!", so I'm guessing that the notes in Informant showed this, but I don't have volume 64. Vine Smith
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