Author: Albert Silver
Date: 16:42:24 08/05/04
The following position arose in Kasparov-Andersson, Tilburg, 1981. Kasparov,
only 18 at the time, played a brilliant pawn sac that left Andersson unable to
develop and to his loss in spectacular fashion. It is a difficult move to find,
and I am not even sure whether any engine will, yet it is unquestionably the
best move.
Albert
[D]r2qkb1r/n1pp1pp1/4p1bp/1p6/1P1P3P/P3P1P1/1B1N1P2/R2QKB1R w KQkq -
14.d5 is the move here. Later Gary began the saccing (pieces this time) in the
following position:
[D]2nq3r/r2pbkp1/2p2p1p/1p5P/1P2N1Q1/P5P1/1B3P2/3RR1K1 w - -
He played 24.Nxf6, though there is probably more than one win at this point.
[Event "It"]
[Site "Tilburg (Netherlands)"]
[Date "1981"]
[Round ""]
[White "Kasparov Garry (RUS)"]
[Black "Andersson Ulf (SWE)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "E12"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Bb7 5.Nc3 Ne4 6.Nxe4 Bxe4 7.Nd2
Bg6 8.g3 Nc6 9.e3 a6 10.b4 b5 11.cxb5 axb5 12.Bb2 Na7 13.h4 h6
14.d5 exd5 15.Bg2 c6 16.O-O f6 17.Re1 Be7 18.Qg4 Kf7 19.h5 Bh7
20.e4 dxe4 21.Bxe4 Bxe4 22.Nxe4 Nc8 23.Rad1 Ra7 24.Nxf6 gxf6
25.Qg6+ Kf8 26.Bc1 d5 27.Rd4 Nd6 28.Rg4 Nf7 29.Bxh6+ Ke8 30.Bg7 1-0
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