Kasparov Karpov 5 World Championship NewYork-Lion 1990

Paolo Ciancarini February 1991

1 Contents

1 Game 1: New York, Oct 8, 1990 5

2 Game 2: New York, Oct 10, 1990 6

3 Game 3: New York, Oct 15, 1990 8

4 Game 4: New York, Oct 17, 1990 10

5 Game 5: New York, Oct 22, 1990 11

6 Game 6: New York, Oct 24, 1990 12

7 Game 7: New York, Oct 28, 1990 13

8 Game 8: New York, Oct 29, 1990 14

9 Game 9: New York, Oct 31, 1990 17

10 Game 10: New York, Nov 2, 1990 18

11 Game 11: New York, Nov 5, 1990 19

12 Game 12: New York, Nov 7, 1990 20

13 Game 13: Lion, Nov 24, 1990 22

14 Game 14: Lion, Nov 26, 1990 23

15 Game 15: Lion, Nov 28, 1990. 25

16 Game 16: Lion, Dec 4, 1990 28

17 Game 17: Lion, Dec 2, 1990 32

18 Game 18: Lion, Dec 4, 1990 33

2 19 Game 19: Lion, Dec 12, 1990 35

20 Game 20: Lion, Dec 15, 1990 37

21 Game 21: Lion, Dec 19, 1990 39

22 Game 22: Lion, Dec 26, 1990 43

23 Game 23: Lion, Dec 29, 1990 45

24 Game 24: Lion, Dec 31, 1990 46

3 The Kasparov-Kasparov fifth World Championship match in NewYork-Lion was one of the most interesting matches between these two players. Almost all the games were exciting, and the fight was fierce. The was 40 moves in 2 hours and half, then 16 moves per hour. The referee was G.Gijssen (NL), who also directed the match in Siviglia. Kasparov’s training team included Z.Dolmatov, M.Gurevich, Z.Azmaiparashvili, G.Georgadze, and A.Shakarov. Karpov’s training team included N.Krogius, L.Portish, and R.Henley. In France O.Renet was added to the Karpov’s team. Press room commenters were notable grandmasters that found very difficult to assess in real time the moves of the two champions.

4 1 Game 1: liked Black’s position. Dlugy thought it was New York, Oct 8, 1990 even. 13. c4×b5 c6×b5 Most people (except Shamkovich) expected Karpov-Kasparov 13. ..., a×b5. Robert Byrne preferred 13. ..., ’s Indian Defense (E81/14) N a×b5 but thought about playing 13. ..., c×b5 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 2. c2–c4 g7–g6 in his earlier career. He did not think that N B 13. ..., c×b5 was earth-shattering, though. 3. b1–c3 f8–g7 R 4. e2–e4 d7–d6 14. f1–e1 5. f2–f3 Karpov spent 30 minutes on this move. Naj- N dorf thought it was weak. 5 f3 - games 3,5,7. Some months ago Kas- N 14. ... d7–e5 parov has lost a game as Black in this variant B R 15. d3–f1 f8–e8 against Gulko. R An alternative is 15. ..., c8. 5. ... 0–0 B B 16. e3–f2 d6–d5 6. c1–e3 c7–c6 N 17. e4×d5 f6×d5 The Byrne variation. Kasparov previously N N 18. c3×d5 played 6. ..., c6. The idea is to open a file N 18 e4 was analyzed by many GMs. on side, to avoid White long castle. NN N B Seirawan looked at 18. e4 f4; 19. c5 7. f1–d3 a7–a6 Q BB BN K N g5; 20. g3 d5; 21. e3 h3+; 22. h1 8. g1–e2 b7–b5 Q R N N ×e3; 23. ×e3 f2+. 9. 0–0 b8–d7 Q R 18. ... d8×d5 10. a1–c1 e7–e5 B 19. a3–a4 g7–h6 Kasparov spent 6 minutes on this move. ECO R B Q B 20. c1–a1 has 10. ..., b7; 11. d2, b×c4; 12. ×c4, RB N B NN R Or 20. c7 f4. b6; 13. b3, a5; 14. a4, fd7; 15. c2 = N 20. ... e5–c4 from Hort-Benko, Monte Carlo 1968. QQ Or 20. ..., b4; 21. b3 a5. rZbl0skZ 21.rZ0ZrZkZ a4×b5 a6×b5 0ZPOPZ0ZZpZ0o0Z0pZpo0mpZZ0ZnZpap ZpZqZ0Z00Z0Z0ZpaZbZ0ZpZp Z0SQZRJ0PO0ZNZPOZ0MBAPZ0 S0ZQSBJ00O0Z0APOZ0Z0ZPZ00ZnM0Z0Z 11. a2–a3 R Karpov spent 20 minutes on this newN move. 22. R Ra1×a8 PreviouslyN played was 11.B b3 exd4; 12. ×d4 22. ×e8+ ×e8; 23. b3 was what e5; 13. c×b5 a×b5; 14. e2 d5, Diez del Cor- Seirawan expected. Deep Thought analyzed ral - Spassky, Palma de Mallorca 1969. Seirawan 22. b3! and now:N R suggested 11. b4. ECO also has 11. d5. A)N 22. ..., d6;R 23. ×e8 + (orN perhaps 11. ... B e5×d4 23.R ×Bb5) 23. ...,B ×e8 (23. ...N, ×Ne8; 24. 11. ..., b×c4 orN 11. ..., b7 wereB possible. ×Qa8 ×Ba8; 25. ×Bb5) 24.R ×b5 B×b5; 12. e2×d4 c8–b7 25. ×d5 ×Rd5; 26. ×Rb5 b8; 27.B a4. Christiansen and Seirawan liked White’s po- QB) 22.N ..., ×e1;N 23. ×a8+,N ×Na8; 24. sition. Shamkovich, Najdorf, and Zuckerman ×e1, d2; (24. ..., d6; 25. ×b5, ×b5;

5 Q K Q N N26. e8+,N g7; 27. Q ×b5.K 24. ..., Qa3; 25, ×Bb5. ×Nb5; 26. Qe8+, Kg7; 27. N×b5) Q25. ×b5, B×b3; 26.B e8+,Q g7; 27. B×b3, rZ0Z0ZkZ ×b3; 28.B d4 (28. B c5, Qd1+; 29. f1. If 28. ...Q, e3+;K 29. ×e3,Q c3) 29.B..., f6; Z0Z0ZpZp K29. e7+,Q g8;B ( 29. ...,B f7;Q 30. ×Bf6+, 0Z0Z0ZpZ g8) 30. d8+, f8; 31. c5, f7; 32. c4, winning. N R B 0O0Z0Z0ZZBZ0Z0Z0 NC) 22. ..., R e3; 23. K×a8, ×a8R (23. ..., Q×d1;R 24. a×Be8+, Bg7; 25. ×Rd) 24. Z0a0ZPZ0 Qd3, d8;R 25. ×e3, ×e3; 26. ×e3, bZ0Z0APO ×d4; 27. e8+N wins. R R ZRZ0Z0J0 RD) 22. ...B, d2; 23.B ×e8+ (23.R ×a8, B×a8; 24.R ×b5,R f4) 23. R..., R×e8; 24. Kasparov offered a and Karpov ac- B×b5,Q d8; 25.BRa2 (25. Ba7, Rc8; 26. cepted. Karpov had 7 minutes to make 10 e2,R d7; 27.K a6, Qc7; 28. ×b7,Q ×Kb7; moves. Kasparov had 15 minutes left. 29. a8+,R g7; 30. a1, f6; 31. a3, f7; 32. b4, c7; 33. b5) N 2 Game 2: 25. ..., ×b5; New York, Oct 10, 1990 N Q Kasparov-Karpov (25. ..., e4; 26. f×e4, ×b5+) Ruy Lopez (C92/29) Q Q N R 1.N e2–e4N e7–e5 B26.B ×b3, R×b3;B 27. ×Rb3, d1+;K 28. 2. Bg1–f3 b8–c6 Bf1, d5; 29. Ra3, c4;K 30. a8+,R Bg7; 31. 3. B f1–b5N a7–a6 d4+,R f3; 32.B a7+, Bg8; 33. a1, ×b3; 4. b5–a4 Bg8–f6 34. ×d1, ×d1; 35. ×f6 withR equality. 5.R 0–0 f8–e7 22. Q ... e8×a8 6. B f1–e1 b7–b5 23. d1–b3 7. a4–b3 d7–d6 8. c2–c3B 0–0 N 9. h2–h3 c8–b7 Another drawish possibility is 23. ×b5, Q R N R B Karpov used this defense to beat Timman in ×d1; 24. ×d1, ×b2; 25. b1, g7; 26. B N the Candidates’ final in Kuala Lumpur. d4, a4. R B 10. d2–d4 f8–e8 23. ... b7–c6 N B B N 11. b1–d2 e7–f8 24. f1–d3 c4–d6 Q B 12. a2–a4 h7–h6 25. b3×d5 c6×d5 N N Against Timman, in the seventh game, Kar- 26. d4×b5 d6×b5 Q B B pov preferred the caute 12. ..., d7. 27. d3×b5 h6–g7 B B 13. b3–c2 e5×d4 28. b2–b4 g7–c3 N R B 13. ..., b8 29. e1–d1 d5–b3 N R 14. c3×d4 c6–b4 30. d1–b1 B 15. c2–b1 b5×a4 R R RB 15. ..., c5 - gameR 4. Not 30.B d3?,R a1+.B If 30. R c1, R ×b4 16. Ra1×a4R a6–a5 (30. ...B, d2;B 31. b1, c2;R 32. b2, Ba1+; 17. Na4–a3 a8–a6 R33. f1, Be3 draw)R 31. b1R (31. a4, 18. f3–h2 N ×b4; 32.B ×b5,R ×b5;B 33. a1+R draw) IvanchukN has introducedN 18. h2. Timman R31. ..., a4;B 32. ×b4, ×b5; 33. ×b5, played 18. h4, ×e4! in gameR 1 of his match a1+; 34. e1 draw. B with Karpov, then tried 18. ae3 in game 5. 30. ... b3–a2 18. ... g7–g6

6 analysis of the other variations. Karpov spent 0Z0lrakZ 20 minutes on this move. 0m0OPZ0Zo0Z0Z0Z0rZ0o0mpoZbo0ZpZ0 0ZbZranZ ZBAQS0J00O0M0OPMS0Z0Z0ZP 0mNOPZNZoqZ0Z0Z0rZpo0ZpoZ0Z0ZpZk 19. f2–f3 Z0S0APZP Perhaps a new move. Kasparov spent 2 min- 0O0Z0ZPZ Nutes on this move. Other moves have been 19. g4, 19 e5, and 19. f4. Q ZBL0S0J0 19. ... d8–d7 Karpov spent 10 minutes on this move. Kas- parov looked surprised.N 20. d2–c4 B N 25. e3×h6 NThreatening 21. ×a5. Also possible is 20. df1. Q Kasparov spent 16 minutes on this move. Af- 20. ... d7–b5 Some GMs looked at 20. ..., a4. ter lots of analysis at a board with Geller, Por- R tisch, Najdorf, and others, someone shouted 21. a3–c3 N mate! Someone was going to win. Dzindzi liked Christiansen expected 21. e3. B B B 25. f4. Fedorowicz liked 25. ×h6. Deep 21. ... b7–c8 R NQ Thought liked 25. f1. Najdorf analyzed 21. ..., d5; 22 a3 b6; B R 25. ... f8×h6 23 e5 c5; 24 exf6 ×e1+ ; N N Q 26. g4×h6 g8×h6 25 ×e1 c×d4. N Q B K 27. c4×d6 b5–b6 22. c1–e3 g8–h7 Karpov spent 10 minutes on this move. This surprised many of the annotators Christiansen and Wolff thought White was Q winning. Shamkovich and Dzindzi thought who expected 22. ..., h5 or 22. ..., b7, then White would play 23 d5. Black was ok. N Q Q 28. d6×e8 b6×d4+ 23. d1–c1N Threatening 24. a3,B winning the c7 . Christiansen liked 23. f2. After 22 minutes of thought.Q Karpov wasQ ei- 23. Q N... R c7–c6R ther thinking of 28. ..., ×d4+, 28. ..., d8, 23. ..., b7; 24.N ×a5 ×a5; 25. ×c7. or 28. resigns! K 24. h2–g4 B 29. g1–h1 QGM Miguel Quinteros liked 24. Bf2 and 25. QQ f4; Deep Thought preferred 24. Nf4. Robert Byrne suggested 29. e3Q e5. 24. ... f6–g8 29. ... d4–d8 Christiansen commented that Karpov was Q saving hisN pieces for the nextB game. Both Or 29. ..., e5.R Q 24. ..., ×g4 and 24. ..., ×g4 were exten- 30. Qe1–d1 Rd8×e8 sively analysed byN Christiansen. Alex Dunne 31. R c1–g5 Qa6–a7 expected 24. ..., g8, commenting that Chris- 32. d1–d8 e8–e6 tiansen was trying to please the crowd with the 33. f3–f4

7 Q N 41. Rd4×a7+ Qd5–e7 42. Qc6×a6 Qd8–d1+ 0ZbS0Z0Z 43. Qa7–g1 d1–d2 0m0ZPO0Zo0Z0Z0L00ZpZqZpms0Z0ZpZk 44.Z0Z0m0Zk0Z0Z0ZnZg1–f1 ZBZ0Z0ZK0O0Z0ZPZZ0S0Z0ZPB Z0Z0Z0ZP0Z0Z0Z0Zo0Z0O0Z0RZ0Z0ZpZ 33. ... Rc8–a6 The GMsR analysed 33. ..., f6 34. h8+ and 0O0l0ZPZ B33. ..., d7. Deep Thought evaluated 33. ..., d7 as best . Q ZBZ0ZQZK 34.Q f4–f5 e6–e7 35. g5–d2 R K QGM SuetinK looked at 35. h8+, R×h8; 36. Karpov resigned. ×h6+, Ng8; 37. f×Bg6, f×g6; 38. ×c6 and if 38. ..., ×c6; 39. a2+ Q 35. N ... R Ke7–e5 35. ..., d5?; 36. h8+!, ×h8; 37. Q K 3 Game 3: ×h6+, g8; 38.Q exd5 36. d2–f2 RQ New York, Oct 15, 1990 TheR crowdK wanted to seeQ 36. Kg3, ×g3?; 37. h8+, ×h8; 38. ×h8+, g8; 39. f6 Q Karpov-Kasparov Rand 40. g7 mate. Christiansen preferredR 36. f3 with the idea of 37. f6 and 38. h8+ King’s Indian Defense (E92/4)N withQ the mate threat. Deep Thought preferred 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 36. f2. Q 2.N c2–c4B g7–g6 36. ... e5–e7 3. b1–c3 f8–g7 Karpov had 2 minutes left to make 4 moves. 4.N e2–e4 d7–d6 Kasparov had 25 minutesR left.R DeepQ Thought 5. Bg1–f3 0–0 Qlooked at 36. ..., Ke7; 37. Rc5, Nc7; 38. 6. B f1–e2Q e7–e5 Rd4,B f6; 39. f×Rg6+, Bg7; 40. d6, g8; 41. 7. c1–e3 d8–e7 h5, c8; 42. d8, e6. N Q Kasparov played 7. ..., a6 in games 5 and 37. f2–d4Q 7. Threatening 38. h8 mate. N 8. d4×e5 d6×e5 37. ... h6–g8 N Q N 9. c3–d5 e7–d8 38. e4–e5 b4–d5 N 39. f5×g6+ f7×g6 QAlso possible isQ 9. ..., ×d5; 10. c×d5, K R Q Q b4+ or 9. ..., d6 39. ..., g7; 40 ×c6, ×d8; 41 ×a7, B N N R Q 10. e3–c5 f6×e4 e7; 42 d6, Rc8; 43 g×f7 - DeepQ Thought. R B 40. c3×c6 e7×d8 Not 10. ..., e8??; 11. e7! 1-0 Peek- Kasparov had 10 minutes left while Karpov’s Canfell, NetherlandsB 1988. Q flag was hanging. Kasparov had the option of 11. B c5–e7 Kd8–d7 sealing with a likely chance of Karpov resigning 12. Qe7×f8 Ng8×f8 before the adjourned game or playing on for 10 13. Rd1–c2 Ne4–c5 more minutes. 14. a1–d1 b8–c6

8 rZbZ0j0Z 0Z0ZbZ0Z Z0mNo0Z00ZnZ0ZpZopoqZpap 0ZPZpZ0ZZ0Z0ZpZ00opZkZpZZpZ0Znap Z0ZRJ0ZRPOQZBOPOZ0Z0ZNZ00ZPZ0Z0Z Z0ZBZRJ0NZ0Z0OPOZPZ0Z0Z0 A new game begins.B N 27. Nd1–e2 Bf7–d6 28. a2–b4 g7–c3 15. 0–0 N NK 29. Rb4–c2 f5–f4 AnotherQ criticalN variantK is 15. g5, Ng8; 16. 30. f1–d1 h7–h5 Qb4, d8; 17. ×f7, ×f7; 18. b×c5, d4; 19. 31. f2–f3 e4–e3 Na4 -Deep Thought.R Interesting is also 15. 32.B g2–g3 g6–g5 b6, a×b6 16. ×d7 - Geller. N 33. Ke2–d3 h5–h4 15. ... c5–e6 34. Kg1–f1 c6–c5 N N Q 35. f1–e2 b6–b5 15. ..., d4; 16. ×d4, exd4; 17. c1, N Q R B Q 36. c4×b5 d6×b5 d6; 18. fe1, d7; 19. f4. Or 15. ..., e4; B K NQ N K B 37. d3–c4+ e6–e7 16. g5, f5; 17. ×h7+, g8; 18. g4 . R B N 38. d1–d5 c3–f6 16. d5–b6 R N 39. Kd5×c5 Bb5–c3+ NQ N Q 40. e2–f1 e8–g6 16. f6, e7; 17. d5, d7 draw. N 16. ... a7×b6 41. c2–e1 R B The game is adjurned. 17. Qd1×d7 Bc8×d7 18. c2–d2 d7–e8N WorthN considering also 18. ..., cd4 or 0Z0Z0Z0Z 18. ..., ed4. 19.R b2–b3 e5–e4 ZpZ0j0Z0 19. d8. N 0Z0Z0abZ 20. N f3–e1 f7–f5 Z0S0Z0o0 Also 20. ..., Bcd4 was considered.N 21. e2–d1 c6–e5 0ZBZ0o0o The activity of the Black pieces is impressive. ZPm0oPO0 All the White pieces have been constrained on 0Z0Z0Z0O the backward rows.N 22. e1–c2 Z0Z0MKZ0 Interesting is also 22. h4. R K 22. Q ... Ka8×a2 41. ... e7–d6 23. Nd2–d5 f8–e7 The sealed move. GMs hadR analyzedK 41. ..., 24. Q c2–b4K c7–c6 fR×g3; 42. h×g3, h3; 43. Rc7+, Kd6; 44. 25. Nd5×e6+ Ne7×e6 R×b7,K e2+; (44.R..., g4; 45. Kb6+, e7;R 46. 26. b4×a2 e5–f7 e6+, f7; 47. e3+. 44. ..., c6; 45. a7,

9 B R B K N N e2+;B (45. ..., d4; 46.N a6+, Rb6; 47. g1) 2. Bg1–f3 b8–c6 B46. e2 h2;R (46. ...B, e2; 47.B a6+; 46.K..., 3. B f1–b5N a7–a6 Nd4; 47. R a6+, b6;K 48.B d3) 47. Kg2, 4. b5–a4 Bg8–f6 Be2;48. Ka6+)B 45. g1,R d4+; 46. Kh2, 5.R 0–0 f8–e7 f2;R 47. h3, Be1; 48. b6+. 47. ..., c6; 6. B f1–e1 b7–b5 48. e7. 47. ...,R f5+; 48. g4 . 7. a4–b3 d7–d6 42. c5–a5 R B 8. c2–c3B 0–0 RA fantasyB variationKB is 42. c8, f5; 43. 9. h2–h3 Rc8–b7 Kf8, Nh3+; 44. g1, N d4; 45. g×Kf4, e2+;N 46. 10.N d2–d4 Bf8–e8 h1,K d1;N 47. f×g5,R f2+;K 48. g1, Rd3+; 11. b1–d2 e7–f8 K49. h1, Be1; 50 K d8+, c5;K 51. ×d4, 12.B a2–a4 h7–h6 B×d4; 52. ×e2, e3; 53. ..., f2, 54. ..., 13. b3–c2N e5×d4 g2 mate 14.B c3×d4 c6–b4 42. ...B R f4×g3 15. c2–b1 42. ..., h3; 43. g×f4, d4; 44. ×g5. 43.K h2×g3 h4×g3 43. ..., h3; 44.N g1. rZ0lrakZ 44. Re1–g2K b7–b5 45. Ra5–a6+ Kd6–e7 Zbo0Zpo0 46. Ra6–a7+ Be7–e8 47. N a7–a8+ f6–d8 pZ0o0m0o 48. g2×e3 B ZpZ0Z0Z0 An alternative defense is 48. e2. 48. N ... b5×c4 Pm0OPZ0Z 49. Ke3×c4N g5–g4 50. Nf1–g2 c3–e2 Z0Z0ZNZP 51. K c4–e5 g4×f3+ 0O0M0OPZ 52. R g2×f3 g3–g2 53. a8×d8+ SBAQS0J0 0Z0SkZ0Z 15. ... c7–c5 For 15. ..., b×a4 see game 2. N Z0Z0Z0Z0 16.R d4–d5 f6–d7 17. a1–a3 f7–f5 0Z0Z0ZbZ 18. e4×f5 R Z0Z0M0Z0 18. e5 is also possible. The move 18. ae3 was played in Timman-Karpov, Kuala Lumpur 0Z0Z0Z0Z 1990 (match). N ZPZ0ZKZ0 18. N ... B d7–f6 19. N d2–e4 b7×d5 0Z0ZnZpZ 19. ..., b×d5;N 20. g4. 20.R B e4×f6+B B Z0Z0Z0Z0 R20. ae3,R ×e4; 21. R×e4, d5; 22. Nb1, ×e3; 23.Q ×Re3, d4; 24.Q e6, d3; 25.B e5, Draw c4;Q 26. f3,R c8; 27. g3, d2; 28. ×d2, ×d2; 29. ×f6 Horvath- Zobisch,Q 1988. 20. B ... d8×f6 4 Game 4: 21. c1–d2N R New York, Oct 17, 1990 Alternatives are 21. h2 and 21.Q ae3 21. B B... f6B×b2 Kasparov-Karpov R21. ...Q, c6; 22. B c3. Or 21. ..., ×f3; 22. Ruy Lopez (C92/29) ×f3, ×b2; 23.B c3 - Seirawan. 1. e2–e4 e7–e5 22. d2×b4

10 Q 37.Q f5–f6B K g5×f6Q 37. ..., ×g6; 38. ×g6+, ×g6; 39. e6 rZ0ZrakZ - Grefe. N K 38. Ng6×f8+ Qh7–g8 Z0Z0Z0o0 39. f8–g6 f6–f7B pZ0o0Z0o QMore aggressiveR is 39. ..., d4!?; 40. f5, c6+ and 41. ...N, e8 - Najdorf. K ZpobZPZ0 40. Ng6–e7+ g8–f8 PA0Z0Z0Z 41. e7–g6+ The sealed move. Karpov offered a draw and ZBZQS0J00l0Z0OPZS0Z0ZNZPB KasparovZ0Z0Zqo00Z0s0j0Z accepted. 22. ... d5–f7! A move maybe not seen byB Kasparov,R that 0Z0Z0ZNo Qcertainly preferredR 22.B ...R, ×f3; 23.Q ×f3, opZpZ0Z0 ×b4; 24. e6 (24.R e4, ×e4?; 25. d5+). 23. Q e1–e6 R R 0ZpZ0Z0Z R23. aQ×b5, ×b4; 24. ×e8, ×e8; 25. ×a6, ×b5. Q Z0Z0Z0OP 23. B ... Q b2×b4Q 0ZBZQOKZ R23. ..., ×e6; 24.R f×e6, ×b4; 25. d3, Q×e6;K 26. a×b5,Q ae8;K 27. b×Na6, c4;R 28. Z0Z0Z0Z0 h7+, f7; 29.R f5+, e7; 30. d4, e1+. 24.R a3–b3 Q B B24. ae3R d5; (24.R ..., ×Ra4; 25.B c2) 25. 5 Game 5: Qa2 (25.B ×e8 ×e8; 26. N×e8 ×e8; 27. ×d5+ f7) 25. ..., c4 26. d4.Q New York, Oct 22, 1990 24. B ... Rb4×a4 25. Q b1–c2 Q a8–d8 Karpov-Kasparov Also 25. ..., Ra5 or 25. ..., a2.Q King’s Indian Defense (E94/4)N 26. b3–e3 a4–b4 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 27. g2–g3 Q 2.N c2–c4B g7–g6 To be considered also 27. e2. 3. b1–c3 f8–g7 27. B ... a6–a5Q 4.N e2–e4 d7–d6 27. ..., ×e6;Q 28. f×e6, c4; 29. d5 and 5. Bg1–f3 0–0 30. e7+ or 30. Nf5 6. B f1–e2N e7–e5 28. Q f3–h4Q d6–d5 7. c1–e3 b8–a6 29. Bd1–e2 b4–c4 8. 0–0 30. R Q c2–d3 R K An alternative is 8. d×e5. R30. ×e8, ×e2; 31. ×f8+, ×f8; 32. 8. Q ...N c7–c6 ×e2. Q N8. ..., e8; (8. ..., g4 - game 7) 9. d×e5, 30. K ... c4–c1+ g4. 31. Bg1–g2B c5–c4 9.Q d4N×e5 B B 32. R d3–c2 R f7×e6 N9. d5, (9. c2) g4; 10. g5, f6; 11. d2, 33. Qe3×e6 e8×e6 h6 - Dlugy. 34. e2×e6+ 9. Q ... Rd6×e5 34. f×e6 K 10. Rd1×d8 f8×d8 34. N ... Kg8–h8 11.N N f1–d1 N B 35. Qh4–g6+ Qh8–h7 B11. ×e5!?, ×e4; 12. ×e4, ×e5; 13. 36. e6–e2 c1–g5 g5 - Dlugy.

11 R 11. ... d8–e8 12.N h2–h3B N 0Z0Z0Z0Z 12. c5, Rg4; 13. ×a6, ×e3; 14. f×e3, ZbZ0j0Z0 b×a6; 15. d6 - Dlugy. B 12. N ... g7–f8 pZ0Z0mpo 13. B f3–d2BK N b7–b6 Z0o0o0Z0 13. ..., c5; 14. g5, g7; 15. b3 - Ro- BZPZPZ0O hde. N O0M0J0O0 14. a2–a3 Na6–c5 15.N b2–b4 c5–e6 0Z0Z0Z0Z 16.N d2–b3 Z0Z0Z0Z0 16 f3 - Dlugy. B Draw 16. ... N c8–a6N 16.B..., a5; 17.B b×a5, b×a5; 18.N a4, ×e4; 6 Game 6: N19. f3, f5;R 20. R×e4, f×e4;R 21. bc5;R 16. ..., New York, Oct 24, 1990 Rd4; 17. a2, ad8; 18. ad2, ×d2; 19. ×d2 - Salov. Kasparov-Karpov 17. f2–f3 Ruy Lopez (C92/15) K 1.N e2–e4N e7–e5 17 f1 - Dzindzi. N 2. Bg1–f3 b8–c6 17. B ... R f6–h5 3. B f1–b5N a7–a6 18. Be3–f2 Ne8–d8 4. b5–a4 Bg8–f6 19. e2–f1 h5–f4 5.R 0–0 f8–e7 6. B f1–e1 b7–b5 R R R R 7. a4–b3 d7–d6 19. ..., ×d1; 20. ×d1, d8; 21. ×d8, N B B 8. c2–c3 0–0 ×d8; 22. c5!, ×f1; 23. c×b6!, a6; 24. N B NB N 9. h2–h3 f6–d7 b×a7, b7; 25. a5, a8; 26. a4 - Dlugy. B 10. d2–d4 e7–f6 20. g2–g3 B 11. a2–a4 c8–b7 B 12. a4×b5B 20. h4 - Dlugy. N NKasparov played 12. e3 in game 8 and 12. 20. K ... f4–h5 a3 in game 12. 21. Rg1–g2R f7–f5 12. R ... Qa6×b5 22. R a1–b1 R a8–c8 13. a1×a8 Nd8×a8 23. Rd1×d8 Rc8×d8 14.B d4–d5 Nc6–a5 24. N b1–d1 d8×d1+ 15. b3–c2 Na5–c4 25. c3×d1 f5×e4 16.N b2–b3 Bc4–b6 26. f3×e4N c6–c5 17. Nb1–a3 b7–a6 27.N b4×c5 Be6×c5 18.B f3–h2 28. Bb3×c5 f8×c5 18. d3, c6 = - deFirmian. 29. Nf2×c5N b6×c5 18. ... Q c7–c6 30. Kd1–c3 B h5–f6 19.B d5×c6 Ba8×c6 31. Bg2–f3 Ka6–b7 20. Nc1–d2 Rf6–e7 32. f1–d3 g8–f8 21. Nh2–g4 f8–a8 33.B h3–h4K h7–h6 22.Q g4–e3 B 34. Bd3–c2 f8–e7 22 c1 - Deep Thought; 22 b1N - Valvo. 35. Kc2–a4 a7–a6 22. N ... Bd7–f6 36. f3–e3 23. e3–f5 e7–f8

12 B N B N 24. d2–g5 b6–d7 7. c1–e3 b8–a6 25. c3–c4 b5×c4 Kasparov played 7. ..., exd4 in game 11. 26. b3×c4 N N B Q B 8. 0–0 f6–g4 26 ×c4, ×c4; 27 b×c4, ×c4; 28. b3, B Q RN B K 9. e3–g5 f7–f6 b4; 29. e3, ×e4; 30. ×f7+, ×f7; 31. Q Q K 9. ..., e8. d5+, g6 -Deep Thouhgt. B K B 10. g5–c1 g8–h8 26. ... a6×c4 N N Q 11. h2–h3 g4–h6 27. a3×c4 c6×c4 B Q 12. d4×e5 28. Kc2–b3 c4–c3 29. Bg1–h2N h7–h6 30. Rg5×f6 Qd7×f6 31. Re1–e3 K c3–c7 32. Ne3–f3 Qg8–h7 rZbl0s0j 33. N f5–e3 N c7–e7 34. B e3–d5 Rf6×d5 opo0Z0ap 35. Qb3×d5 a8–a7 nZ0o0opm 36. Qd1–b3 f7–f6 37. Rb3–b8 g7–g6 Z0Z0O0Z0 38. f3–c3K h6–h5 39. g2–g4 K h7–h6 0ZPZPZ0Z 40.R g4×h5 Bh6×h5 Z0M0ZNZP 41. Rc3–c8 f8–g7 42.0L0ZRZ0Zc8–e8 S0AQZRJ0PO0ZBOPZ s0Z0l0a0 12. ... f6×e5?! 0Z0o0opZ Tal disliked this move, saying that 12. ..., d×e5 was necessary.B Z0ZBo0Zk 13.BQ c1–e3N N 0Z0ZPZ0Z 13 g5, e8; 14 d5, g8. N Z0Z0Z0ZP 13. Q ... Nh6–f7 14. N d1–d2 a6–c5 0Z0Z0O0J 14. ..., e6 andN 15. ..., c5 - Rohde. Z0Z0Z0Z0 15. N f3–g5B Q 15. b4, e6. Or 15. ×c5, d×c5; 16. e3 - Tal. The sealed move. A draw was agreed the next N 15. ... f7×g5 day. N 15. ..., e6 -B Shamkovich. B 16. e3×g5 g7–f6 7 Game 7: Q 16. ..., e8. B New York, Oct 28, 1990 17.B g5–e3 17. h6 Karpov-Kasparov N 17. ... c5–e6 King’s Indian Defense (E92/2) B N 18. e2–g4 h7–h5 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 N B R 2.N c2–c4B g7–g6 Q18. ..., Bd4; 19. ×c8,N ×c8 (19.B ..., 3. b1–c3 f8–g7 ×c8; 20.N ×d4,Q exd4; 21. b5) 20. ×d4, 4.N e2–e4 d7–d6 exd4; 21. b5, Be7. B 5. Bg1–f3 0–0 19. Ng4×e6 Bc8×e6 6. f1–e2 e7–e5 20. c3–d5 f6–h4

13 B B N K K29. e3,B g5;B 30. f6+,R h6;R (30. ..., g7) 31. ×c5, ×d2; 32. cd1,B dd8. rZ0l0s0j 29. ... Qe6×d5 30.Q c4×d5Q c5–d4 opo0Z0Z0 30. ..., b5 31 a4 ×b3 32 d×c6 b×c6 33 0Z0obZpZ e5 - Rohde. 31.R d5×c6R b7×c6 Z0ZNo0Zp 32. Rc1×c6 Q a8–e8 33. B c6–c4 Bd4×d2 0ZPZPZ0a 34. Bf4×d2 B f6–e5 Z0Z0A0ZP 35. Rd2–e3 e5–g3 36. B f1–f3B h5–h4 PO0L0OPZ 37. R e3–f2B g3×Rf2 R37. ..., Rde7; 38.R ×g3, h×Rg3; 39. ×g3, S0Z0ZRJ0 ×e4; 40. ×e4,R ×e4; 41. g5R - Dzindzi. R 38. Rf3×f2 d7–e7 21. B R a1–c1 39. Rf2–f4R g6–g5 B21. ×a7 Q×a7 (21.K..., g5!? orQ 21. ..., 40. R f4–f6 Re7×e4 ×d5) 22. h6+ g8 23. ×Ng6+ - 41. Rc4×e4 Re8×e4 Shamkovich;B B 21.K f4 c6 (21.N..., exf4 22. ×f4, 42. Rf6×d6 e4–e7 f7 23. d4+, h7; 24. d5)B 22. f×e5, d×e5 43. d6–a6 (22. ..., c×d5; 23 c×d5) 23. c5 -K Chow. 21. R ... h8–h7 22. c1–c3 Q 0Z0Z0Z0Z 22. f4, e×f4 and 23. ..., b6 - Tal.R 22. ... f8–f7 o0Z0s0Zk 23.N b2–b3R c7–c6 RZ0Z0Z0Z 24. Rd5–b4 Bf7–d7 25. c3–c1 h4–f6 Z0Z0Z0o0 26.B f2–f4 e5×f4 27. e3×f4 0Z0Z0Z0o 0ZpobapZopZrZ0ZkrZ0l0Z0Z Z0Z0Z0ZKPZ0Z0ZPZZPZ0Z0ZP Z0Z0Z0Zp Kasparov resigns. 0MPZPA0Z 8 Game 8: ZPZ0Z0ZP New York, Oct 29, 1990 PZ0L0ZPZ Kasparov-Karpov Ruy Lopez (C92/15) Z0S0ZRJ0 1.N e2–e4N e7–e5 Q 2. Bg1–f3 b8–c6 27. ... d8–a5? 3. B f1–b5N a7–a6 Probably this was the worst error by Kas- 4. b5–a4 Bg8–f6 parov in this Championship. Karpov finds 5.R 0–0 f8–e7 an immediateB refutation.Q More sensate were 6. B f1–e1 b7–b5 27. ..., e5 orN 27. ..., e7. Q 7. a4–b3 d7–d6 28. Kb4–d5 a5–c5+ 8. c2–c3N 0–0 29. g1–h1 9. h2–h3 f6–d7

14 B 10. d2–d4 B e7–f6 11.B a2–a4 c8–b7 12. c1–e3 KasparovN played 12. a×b5 in game 6 and qZ0Z0skZ 12. a3 in game 12. N 12. B ... Nc6–a5 Zbo0Zpop 13. Bb3–c2 a5–c4 0Z0Z0ZnZ 14.rZ0l0skZe3–c1 Z0O0Z0ZP0Z0Z0O0ZZpapO0Z0 ZpZ0o0Z0pZ0o0a0ZZbonZpop Z0AQZRJ00OBM0ZPZK PZnOPZ0Z 23. B g1–h2NB d5–d4B Z0O0ZNZP 23.B..., Ne3 24. Bf3 ×c1 (24. ...N, ×f4+ 25. ×f4 ×f4Q 26. ×h7+ or 26 b5). SNAQS0J00OBZ0OPZ 24.NN d1–e2Q 24 b3 b6 25 e2. 24. ... d4×c3 25. b2×c3 14. ... d6–d5 NB B B25 Qe4 ×e4 (25. ..., c×b2 26 ×b2) 26 N ×e4 a2. New move. Usual is 14. ..., cb6. R N 25. ... f8–d8 15.N d4×e5 Nc4×e5 16. f3×e5 d7×e5 R NN 25. ..., e8 26 e4 ×e5!? - Rohde. 17. a4×b5 N B 26. B d2–e4 B c5–a3 N B 27. c1×a3 b7×e4 17 f4 c4 18 e5 h4 - Shamkovich. 17. ... a6×b5 Q N 27. ..., ×a3?Q 28 e6! f×e6 29 Qg5 - Dlugy. Q R 28. e2×e4 a8×a3 17. ..., d×e4 18. ×d8 f×d8 19. b×a6. N R Q 29. f4–f5 g6–e7 18. a1×a8 d8×a8 N Q B Q Q 29. ..., f8 30 e6 f×e6 31 f×e6 d6+ 32 18. ..., ×a8; 19. e×d5, ×d5; 20. ×d5, KQ R B BN N B h1 ×e6 33 ×f8+. ×d5; 21. f4, c4; 22. b3, d6; 23. ×d6, Q R B 30. e4–h4 f7–f6 c×d6; 24. d1, e6. Q K N 31. h4–g3 g8–f8 19. f2–f4 e5–g6 K Q B 32. h2–h1 a3–c5 20. e4–e5 f6–h4 R B 33. e5×f6 g7×f6 21. e1–f1 h4–e7 B N 34. Qc2–b3 Ke7–d5 Q QB 35. g3–h4 f8–g7 21. ..., d4; 22. e2 (22. g4, e4). R N B 36. f1–d1 c7–c6 22. b1–d2 e7–c5+ R Q N 37. Rd1–d4 Kc5×c3 22.Q..., d4 (22. ...,f5;B 23. g4 orR 23. B f3, c5) 38. B d4–g4+ Qg7–h8 Q23. e2! (23. c×d4, ×g2; 24. f2, h3; 25. 39. Kb3×d5 Qc3–a1+ e2). 40. h1–h2 a1–e5+

15 0ZpZ0o0ZZ0Z0Z0Zp0Z0s0Z0j 0l0Z0o0ZZ0Z0Z0Zp0Z0ZrZ0j 0Z0Z0ZPJZ0Z0Z0ZP0Z0Z0ZRLZpZBlPZ0 S0Z0Z0ZP0Z0Z0Z0LZpZpZPZ0 Z0Z0Z0Z0R Z0Z0Z0ZK0Z0Z0ZPZ 41. g4–g3 Q The sealed move. 53. h4–b4 41. Q ... Qc6×d5 42. Qh4–g4 Qe5–c7 R R K Q 43. Kg4–d4 c7–d6 53. g3??, e1+; 54. h2, g1 mate. 44. Qh2–h1Q QQ 53. ... d5–d4 44. h4 (44. g4 d7! 45. d4 ×f5) Q R R Q 53. ..., f2. 44. ..., d4; 45. d3 b4; 46. h5 g8; 47. ×d4, R Q Q R R R 54. a3–g3 b6–c7 ×d4; 48. ×d4, b8; 49. h6, b3; 50. d1, R Q R K K K K 55. g3–d3 c7–c1+ b2; 51. b1, g8; 52. g3, f7; 53. f4, K Q K KK K R K 56. h1–h2 c1–f4+ e7; 54. e4, d6; 55. d4, b7; 56. c3, K Q K R R K K 57. h2–g1 f4–c1+ e5; 57. ×b2, ×b2; 58. ×b2, ×f5; 59. K Q K K K K K K 58. g1–h2 c1–f4+ c3, g5; 60. d4, ×h6; 61. e4, g5; K R K 59. h2–g1 e8–c8 62. f3 draws - Ljubojevic. R 44. Q ... Qd8–e8 45. d4–g4 d6–d7 K R R R R 59. ..., g7; 60, ×d4, e1+ wins. 46. g3–d3 e8–e1+ R R K R 60. d3–d1 c8–d8 47. h1–h2 e1–e4 Q Q Q 61. b4×b5 f4–e3+ 48. g4–g3 K 62. Qg1–h1Q d4–d3 Q Q Q Q 63. b5–a5 e3–d4 48. d1? (48. ×e4??, c7+) d6+; 49. Q Q KQ R 64. a5–a1 d4–b6 g1 e5 threatening 50. ..., e1+. Q K R 65. a1–a2 h8–g7 48. ... e4–e5 Q Q 66. Ra2–d2 Rb6–c5 Q Q Q 67. Rd1–f1 Qd8–d4 48. ..., ×f5;R 49. b8+ and 50.R ×b5 68. R f1–f3 Rc5–d6 49. Qd3–a3 Q e5–e8 69. R f3–e3 d4–a4 50. K g3–f4 Qd7–b7 70. Re3–e1Q h7–h5 51. Qh2–h1 Qb7–b8 71. Qe1–b1 Kd6–d7 52. f4–h4 b8–b6 72. d2–d1 g7–h6

16 2.N c2–c4 g7–g6 3. b1–c3N d7–d5 0Z0Z0Z0Z 4. c4×d5 N f6×d5 5. e2–e4 Bd5×c3 Z0ZqZ0Z0 6.B b2×c3 f8–g7 0Z0Z0o0j 7. Q c1–e3 c7–c5 8. d1–d2 c5×d4 Z0Z0ZPZp 8. ..., O–O. N 9.R c3×d4 b8–c6 rZ0Z0Z0Z 10.N a1–d1 Z0ZpZ0ZP 10. f3. Q 10. Q ... N d8–a5 ZRZQZ0ZK0Z0Z0ZPZQ K 11.rZbZkZ0sd2×a5 c6×a5 73. Qd1–d2+ h6–g7! opZ0opap 74. Qd2–e3K h5–h4 75. Qe3–f3 Kg7–h6 0Z0Z0ZpZ 76. Qf3–e3+ h6–g7 77. Qe3–f3Q d3–d2 m0Z0Z0Z0 78. Q f3–h5 K d7–f7 0Z0OPZ0Z 79. Rh5×f7+ Rg7×f7 80. Kb1–d1 Ra4–d4 Z0Z0A0Z0 81. Kh1–g1 Rd4–d5 82. Kg1–f2 Rd5×f5+ PZ0Z0OPO 83. Kf2–e2 f5–g5 Z0ZRJBMR 84. e2–f2 N 12. g1–f3 B 0Z0Z0Z0Z A new move. Yusupov played 12 d3 against Gulko at Linares 1989. Z0Z0ZkZ0 12. B ... B 0–0 13. B f1–e2 c8–d7 0Z0Z0o0Z 14. e3–d2R b7–b6 Z0Z0Z0s0 15.R 0–0 B f8–d8 16. d1–c1 Nd7–g4 0Z0Z0Z0o 17. d4–d5 B a5–b7 B17. ..., f5B (17. ..., e6; 18. B×a5, bB×a5; 19. Z0Z0Z0ZP c4!) 18. d3, f×e4; 19. ×e4, f5!? - 0Z0o0JPZ Wolff. 18.RN h2–h3B Z0ZRZ0Z0 18. c7, c5!; 18. b4, e6!. B 18. B ... Ng4×f3 19. e2×f3 b7–c5 Draw on Karpov’s offer B R 20. Bd2–e3 Ra8–c8 21. Rf3–g4 c8–b8 9 Game 9: 22. Bc1–c4 h7–h5 23. Rg4–f3 e7–e6 New York, Oct 31, 1990 24. f1–e1B e6×d5 25. e4×d5 g7–e5 Karpov-Kasparov 26. g2–g4N h5×g4 Grunfeld (D85/5) N 27.R h3×g4 Nc5–b7 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 28. c4–a4 b7–a5

17 R 29.B g4–g5 Bb8–c8 30. K f3–e2 Be5–d6 31. g1–g2 d6–c5 opo0ZpoprZblka0s 0o0Z0ZpZo0Z0ZpZ00Zrs0ZkZ 0Z0Z0L0ZZ0Z0Z0Z00Znm0Z0Z Z0Z0A0Z0RZ0Z0Z0Zm0aPZ0O0 S0A0JBZRPOPZ0OPOZ0M0ZNZ0N PZ0ZBOKZ 8. ... d6–f5!? Z0Z0S0Z0 BNew move.B Other triesB are 8. ..., g6, 8. ..., e7, 8. ..., e6,B 8. ..., f5. B 9. Qf1–b5 Q f8–d6 B 10. f4–e4+ d8–e7 32. e3–d2? B 11. c1–g5 A rare of Karpov’s. He throws away B Q B B BB 11 e3 (11 O–O ×e4 or 11. ..., d7 12 an entire strategy! 32. c1 (32. f4, d6; B N Q N N B B B B B ×c6+) ×e3 (11. ..., ×e4 12 ×e4 ×e3 33. d2) e7 (32. ..., f8; 33. b2, g7; N B B BR B R B 13 ×d6+ c×d6 14 f×e3) 12 ×c6+ ×c6 13 34. f6, d6; 35. d7, d7; 36. g4) 33. Q K Q N R R R B ×c6+ f8 14 f×e3 ×e3+ 15 e2 - Ben- e4 (33.R h4, B×c1 andR 34. ..., B×g5) jamin. 33. ...B, c7;R 34. f4,R cd7K (34. ..., Rd6; 11. ... f7–f6 35. ×d6, ×d6; 36. e8+, g7; 37. h1, Q R R B 11. ..., e6 12 O–O–O O–O - Wilder. ×d5; 38. f4, f6; 39. eh8 wins) 35. b5, B B R R R R R 12. g5–d2 c8–d7 ×d5;R 36. K×d5, ×Bd5; 37. ×e7,B ×b5; 13. 0–0 38.K e8+,R g7; 39. e5+,R f6; 40. ×f6+, f7; 41. e7+ and 42. ×a7 wins.R 32. B ... Rd8×d5 rZ0ZkZ0s 33. B e2–f3 d5–d8 34. d2×a5 opobl0op Draw 0Z0ZQZ0ZZBZ0ZnZ00Zna0o0Z 10 Game 10: New York, Nov 2, 1990 POPA0OPOZ0M0ZNZ0 Kasparov-Karpov Petroff (C43/19) S0Z0ZRJ0 1.N e2–e4N e7–e5 B B Q 2. g1–f3 g8–f6 White threatens 14 ×c6Q ×c6? 15 N ×f5. 3. d2–d4N e5×d4 TalB preferredB 13. O–O–O, ×e4; 14. ×e4, 4.Q e4–e5 f6–e4 Ne7; 15. R f4, O–O–O; 16. g4, g5; (16. ..., 5. d1×d4N d7–d5 fd4; 17. ×d4!). Q 6.N e5×d6 Ne4×d6 13. N ... Be7×e4 7. Qb1–c3 b8–c6 14. c3×e4N d6–e7 8. d4–f4 14. ..., O–O–O 15 g4 fe7 - Dzindzi.

18 15.B B g2–g4 11. e4×d5N c6×d5 15 f4 (15 c3 - Wilder) O–O–O 16 g4 g5 12. 0–0 b8–c6 - Shamkovich. 15. ... a7–a6 A game Gligoric-Fischer,R Stokolm 1962,B con- N N B B tinued 12. ..., d×c4 13 ad1, a6; 14. ×c4 15. ..., d6 16 ×d6+ (16 ×d6+ ×d6 BB B R N N B b5; 15. b3, b7; 16. f2 and White is slightly 17 de1+ e7 18 d4 - Kamsky) ×d6 17 R N B K better. he1+ e7 18 ×d7+ ×d7. B N 13. c4–c5 16. N b5–c4 B f5–d6 17. e4×d6 e7×d6 R A move quite new. Karpov has studied last 18. a1–e1+ rZ0ZkZ0s theory, but Kasparov did not sleep! 0ZBZ0ZPZZ0Z0Z0Z0pZna0o0ZZpobZ0op 0ZnZ0mpZopZ0ZpaprZblrZkZ Z0Z0SRJ0POPA0O0OZ0Z0ZNZ0 PO0LBZPOZ0M0APZ00Z0M0Z0ZZ0OpZ0Z0 Draw offered by Kasparov. S0Z0ZRJ0 11 Game 11: New York, Nov 5, 1990 R 13. ... e8×e3 Karpov-Kasparov King’ Indian (E92/13) N QA new move.B Previously were playedN 13. ..., 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 e7, 13. ..., d7,Q and 13. ..., h5.Q 2.N c2–c4B g7–g6 14. d2×e3 d8–f8 3. b1–c3 f8–g7 N N Back to the King’s Indian! The Grunfeld is NNot immediatelyN 14. ..., g4; 15. ×c6, too dangerous! ×e3; 16. ×d8.N 4. e2–e4 d7–d6 15. Kd4×c6 b7×c6 N 16. g1–h1 5. Bg1–f3 0–0 6. f1–e2 e7–e5 B Ljubojevich suggested the more aggressive 7. c1–e3 e5×d4 N R K N 15. d1, b8; 16. h1. Kasparov tries another road. 7. ..., a6 - R 16. ... a8–b8 game 7. N R 8. f3×d4 f8–e8 B Deep Thought recommended 16. ..., f5. 9. f2–f3 N 17. c3–a4 A gameQ Kamski-Tal,Q New York 1990, contin- ued 9. c2, e7; 10.f3, c6; 11. g4. Q Q N 17. d2 (17. b3?, d4; 18. ×d4, d5 wins 9. ... c7–c6 Q Q the ) 17. ..., ×c5. 10. d1–d2 R 17. ... b8–b4 NMore commonN is 10. 00,Q d5; 11.N c×d5, B ×d5; 12. ×d5, c×d5; 13. b3, c6. 17. ..., f5 - Shamkovich. 10. ... d6–d5 18. b2–b3

19 R B QB Q Q22 Nac1 d4 23K e1N f5 24 g4 N×e2 25 ×e2 g3+ 26 g2 ×e2 27 g×f5 ×c1 - 0ZbZ0lkZ Shamkovich. B 22. Q ... g7–d4 o0Z0Zpap 23.Q f2×d4 0ZpZ0mpZ 23 g2 - Kamsky. R Z0OpZ0Z0 23. K ... Qh4×h2+ Ns0Z0Z0Z 24. h1×h2 e7–h4+ S0Z0ZRZKPZ0ZBZPOZPZ0LPZ0B o0Z0ZpZp0Z0Z0ZkZ 18. ... c8–e6? 0ZpZbZpZ An insolitN lostR timeR by the WorldB Champion.Q Z0OpZ0Zn 18.B..., h5 19 Qad1 h4 (19. ...,Q h6R 20 f2 – enjamin;Q 20 c3 - Wolff) 20 K f2 B×h2+ 0Z0L0ZPl (20. ..., e7 - Christiansen) 21 ×h2 e5+ - Dzindzi. N ZPZNZPZ0 19. a4–b2 PZ0ZBZ0J RA forcedQ move,N accordingN toN Kasparov.R 19 Bad1 b8Q 20 Bb2 h5 21 d3 h4R 22 f4? S0Z0ZRZ0 Bd4!; 22Q f3?R g4 -R Benjamin;R 19 ac1? Bh6 20 c3 h4; 19 ae1 h4 (or 19. ..., h6) 20 f4 N 19. ... f6–h5 N Draw by perpetual . 19. ..., d7 -N Deep Thought. R 20. b2–d3B Q b4–h4N ThreateningKN 21. ..., d4 22N ×d4? g3+ 23 g1 ×e2+ andQ 24. ..., ×d4.Q 21. e3–f2 f8–e7 0Z0Z0ZkZ 12 Game 12: o0Z0lpap New York, Nov 7, 1990 0ZpZbZpZ Kasparov-Karpov Z0OpZ0Zn Ruy Lopez (C92/15) 0Z0Z0Z0s 1.N e2–e4N e7–e5 2. Bg1–f3 b8–c6 ZPZNZPZ0 3. B f1–b5N a7–a6 4. b5–a4 Bg8–f6 PZ0ZBLPO 5.R 0–0 f8–e7 S0Z0ZRZK 6. B f1–e1 b7–b5 7. a4–b3 d7–d6 B 8. c2–c3N 0–0 The ideaQ is 21. ..., g5 and 22. ..., d4 and 9. h2–h3 Bf6–d7 23. ..., h6. 10. d2–d4 B e7–f6 22. g2–g4 11. a2–a4 c8–b7

20 B QA weak move. Better was 20. ..., ×d5; 21. ZbonZpoprZ0l0skZ ×d5,rZ0l0Z0j a5! ZBO0ZNZPPZ0OPZ0ZZpZ0o0Z0pZno0a0Z Z0ZBZ0Z0pZpo0a0ZZbZns0op SNAQS0J00O0Z0OPZN 0O0Z0OPZZQZ0ANZPPo0O0Z0Z 12. b1–a3 S0Z0S0J0 The mostB common continuation. 12 a×b5 - game 6; 12 e3 - game 8. B N 12. Q ... e5×d4 21. Bd5–e6! d7–f8 12. ..., Nb8 is too passive, but more normal 22. Re6–g4N a6–a5 is 12. ..., b6. N 23. Ba1–c1 f8–g6 13. c3×d4 c6–a5 24. g4–h5? A game Adams-Short, 1987, continued B R Q R B Q A meaningless move. Stronger are 24. f5, 13. ..., e8; 14. d2, e7; 15. c2, e8 Q 24. c2, or 24. g3. with an even game. R B 24. ... a8–c8 14. b3–a2 N N Maybe Karpov should have chosen 24. ..., Not 14. a×b5?, a×b5; 15. ×b5, ×b3; 16. N N B R Q Q B h4; 25. ×h4, ×h4. ×a8, ×a8 17. ×b3, ×e4 because this B R 25. h5–g4 c8–b8 loses the bishops’ pair. Q R 26. b3–c2 e7–c7 14. ... b5–b4 Q N N N 27. c2–f5 g6–e7 15. a3–c4 a5×c4 Q B R 28. f5–d3?! 16. a2×c4 f8–e8 Q 16. ..., d5 is not sufficient, because after 17. 28 h5Q seemsB stronger,B withN the idea 28.B ..., B B N g6 29. h6, c8 30 g5, f5?; 31. ×f5, ×d5, ×d5; 18. exd5, both 18. ..., b6 19. B R R R N Q Q ×f5; 32. ×c6!, ×c6; 33. e8+ and mate. a5, ×d5; 20. c2 and 18. ..., a5; 19. c2, N BQ N BN B Even after 28. ..., d5; 29. f5, g8; 30. b6; 20. f4, ...,d5; 21. e5 are good for B B N Q Q White. Bg5, g6; 31. ×f6, ×f6; 32. h4, g7; 33. Q R d3 White keeps an edge. 17. d1–b3 e8×e4 N R 28. ... e7–d5 Almost forced. On 17. ..., e7 follows 18. B N 29. e3–d2 c6–c5 g5!. B N B K 30. g4–e6 d5–b6 18. c4×f7+ g8–h8 K B R 31. d4×c5 d6×c5! NAvoidingQ 18. ...B, f8 19. g8!, ×e1; 20. ×e1, e7; 21. B e3 Now finally BlackQ position is unblocked.R 19. c1–e3 32. Bd3×d8+ Rb8×d8 Q R 33. d2–f4 c7–e7 White does not like 19 ×b4?, ×e1; 20 N N N Q BR Q 34. f3–g5 b6–d5 ×e1, e7!; 21 e3, b8!, and now 22 c4, B B N BB 35. e6×d5! d5!; 23 ×d5, b6! or 22. c4, R×g2! 19. ... e4–e7 RForced.R The ending is inferior after 35. Black has to rearrangeB his pieces. AfterN ×c5, de8!. R 19. ...B, a5 follows 20. e6! and then d2 35. R ... Bd8×d5 and f5 with .B 36. Re1×e7 f6×e7 20. f7–d5 c7–c6? 37. c1–e1

21 0Z0Z0Z0j Po0Z0A0Zo0orZ0M00Z0Z0Z0ZZbZ0a0op l0oPZbZ00Z0Z0ZpZopZnZpaprZ0ZrZkZ Z0Z0S0J00O0Z0OPZZ0Z0Z0ZP Z0S0ZRJ0PZ0LBOPOZ0O0ANZ00Z0Z0Z0Z Kasparov offers a draw, and Karpov accepted, because he had only two minutes left.B With RmoreK time he could discover 37. ..., f8! 38. e8, g8! with a fine position. NB The two players leave New York and trans- BInterestingQ is now:R 15. h4Q e4; 16.R f3 fer to Lion on even terms: one victory each. ×d5!; 17. ×d5 ×e3; 18. ×d7 ×e2 Kasparov left New York with a bad mood: he with a big Black plus. In Piket-Korchnoi,Q Wijk did not participate to the final press conference, aan Zee 1990, White played 15. b2. Mephisto that was instead attended by Karpov. thinks Black is better! N 15. h2–h3 d7–b6

13 Game 13: GM Lein thinks White is in deep trouble. Lion, Nov 24, 1990 GK might play Nb6-a4. Another of GK’s ideas might be Qa5-a4. Karpov-Kasparov 16. g2–g4 Gruenfeld B Q N The idea is 16. ..., e4; 17. c4, ×d2; 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 N N B 18. ×d2 with 19. ×e4 and d3 to come. 2. c2–c4 g7–g6 B N N After 16. ..., e4 also 17. g5 is interesting. 3. b1–c3 d7–d5 N After a slow start suddenly the game is very 4. c4×d5 f6×d5 N exciting. The Russians GMs in the pressroom 5. e2–e4 d5×c3 B Q B found: 16. ..., e4; 17. c4, a3! with a Black 6. b2×c3 f8–g7 B edge. 7. c1–e3 c7–c5 B Q 16. ... f5–d7 8. d1–d2 0–0 So far on two minutes each. In gameN 9 Kas- GM-elects Watson and Gallagher say Karpov RparovQ played . ..., c×d4; 9.c×d4, c6; 10. is still under pressure, but improving. Mephisto d1, a5+ andR White had a smallQ vantage. ’think’ its slightly better for Black. And the 9. Na1–c1 d8–a5 Russians say that Kasparov should have played 10. g1–f3 e7–e6 N h5, not b6. Tisdall says: “I’ve seen this before”. But no- Q 17. c2–c4 a5×d2 body can find a game with it. N N 18. f3×d2 b6–a4 11. d4–d5 e6×d5 B N R 19. e2–f3 a4×c3 12. e4×d5 f8–e8 R B B 20. c1×c3 13. f1–e2 c8–f5 B N R BN 14. 0–0 Not 20. ×c5 ×a2 21. b1 b6 22. e3 c3 The game hasn’t found it’s own personality with good play for Black. B yet. N 20. N ... g7×c3 14. ... b8–d7 21. d2–e4

22 People in the pressroom seemed to be losing interest a bit. The Russians think GK is slightly rZ0ZrZkZ better, the Americans think AK is slightly bet- ter and it mightR be a draw. opZbZpZp 31. b3–c3 0Z0Z0ZpZ If Karpov could get his king to d3, he might play on forever.K ButR this is notR the case.B For Z0oPZ0Z0 instance, 31. f3, e4; 32. c3, f6. On 31. f3 follows 31. ..., f4! and the Black 0Z0ZNZPZ goes behind White lines. B Z0a0ABZP 31. ... Kd8–c7R AK line in Karpov’sK favourR is: 32. f3, e4; PZ0Z0O0Z 33. e2, f4; 34. d3 and e4 hasK to move. 32.K a2–a4 f7–f6 Z0Z0ZRJ0 33. Bg2–f1K f5–f4 34. Re3–c1 R f6–f5 R 35. c3–c2 e8–g8 21. ... e8×e4 R B B 36. c2–e2 c7–e5 This is virtually forced, because 21. ..., e5; B B N B N 37. c1–b2 e5–d4 22. ×c5, c8; 23. d3 and then c5 gives B 38. b2×d4 c5×d4 White too much freedom. R B R 39. e2–e7 d4–d3 22. f3×e4 a8–e8 K R B 40. f1–e1 g8–c8 23. e4–d3 b7–b6 K R K 41. e1–d2 c8–c4 24. g1–g2 Tisdall: “The first one who can bring himself to offer a draw will get it”. WhereN did Kasparov 0Z0Z0Z0Z drop his advantage? Maybe c3 should have been prepared. B Z0Z0S0Zp If Karpov plays c1 to press f2-f4 (hoping for 0o0Z0Z0Z an endgame.R advantage with f4-f5) GK might play e1 to enter a drawn double- end- o0ZPZkZ0 ing. 24. ... B f7–f5 PZrZ0o0Z 25.B g4×f5 d7×f5 Z0ZpZ0ZP 26. d3×f5 g6×f5 KarpovB sits thinking alone at the board. 0Z0J0O0Z Black c3 is potentially weaker than Be3, but White pawn on c4 is GK’s major target. White Z0Z0Z0Z0 d-pawn looks strong (and it is) but right now its quiet.K impotent. If advanced it’ll just be lost, KarpovK sealsR his move. NowR the analysisK goes: since g8 is to close.R K 42.R ×d3,K ×a4;R 43. d6,K a3+; 44. c4, 27. f1–d1 R g8–f7B a1; 45. d5, d1+; 45. c6, a4 and White No good for Black is 27. ..., e4; 28. g5. might be the one who inK trouble. KKarpov mustB beK considering lines like: 28.d6, Karpov sealed 42. ×d3, but a draw was e6; 29. f4, d7 and Black is better. Time: agreed upon before adjournement has resumed. White: 2:07 Black:R 1:28. B Draw 28. Rd1–d3 c3–f6 29. d3–a3 a7–a5 R 14 Game 14: 30. a3–b3 Time: White: 2:12 Black: 1:31. It might look Lion, Nov 26, 1990 simple, but in fact the game is balanced on an edge. Which is most important: Black weakness Kasparov-Karpov on b6 or White c4? B (C45) 30. ... f6–d8 1. e2–e4 e7–e5

23 N N B 2. g1–f3 b8–c6 12. f1–g2 3. d2–d4 Obviously 12. ...,B f×e5 wins aB pawn for Black “What?!” everybody cried out in the press- but what about his a6 and f8 ? room. The Scotch Opening is a rare bird in 12. ... f6×e5 World Championship matches. Generally it 13. 0–0 is regarded as to drawish. The two previous times the Scotch Opening was played in a World Championship match were in 1886 and 1892! It 0ZkZra0s was in Steinitz-Zukertort and Chigorin-Steinitz. Anyway, this is the first time Kasparov has o0opl0op played this opening in an official game. bZpZ0Z0Z 3. N ... Ne5×d4 4. N f3×d4 g8–f6 Z0Zno0Z0 5. d4×c6Q b7×c6 6.Q e4–e5 Nd8–e7 0ZPZ0Z0Z 7. d1–e2 Bf6–d5 ZPZ0Z0O0 8. c2–c4 c8–a6 Karpov has played twiceQ this line against PA0ZQOBO Timman. Timman playedN 9. e4. At London 1984 Karpov played 9. ..., b6, and thenN won. SNZ0ZRJ0 At Amsterdam 1985 he played 9. ..., f6, and the game was eventually drawn. KarpovB is aB pawn up,R but he’ll find it difficult 9. b2–b3 to get a6, f8, and h8 into play. He must play for a King side attack to avoid disaster in the Queenside. rZ0Zka0s 13. ... B h7–h5 Probably planningQ for g5 and Ng7. o0oplpop 14. e2–d2 d5–f6 bZpZ0Z0Z Mephisto ’thinks’ Black is a third of a pawn up. Q B 0ZPZ0Z0ZZ0ZnO0Z0 15. d2–a5 a6–b7 SNA0JBZRPZ0ZQOPOZPZ0Z0Z0 L0Z0o0Zp0ZpZ0m0Zobopl0o00ZkZra0s The books say: 9. ..., 000Q but GM-electQ NGallagher suggestedQ 9. ..., h4!; 10. c2, 0ZPZ0Z0Z b4 where 11. e2 might be White’s best. A ZPZ0Z0O0 Mephisto computer gaveQ Karpov a half pawn up if he played 9. ..., h4. A gameQ Ljuboje-N PA0Z0OBO vicB - Seirawan went 9. ..., 000; 10. b2, b6 11. e2. Black won in 39.moves. But in Hort - SNZ0ZRJ0 Unzicker 1983B white won in only 23 moves after B 9. ..., 000; 10. b2. 16. b2–a3 9. ... 0–0–0 AlreadyQ Q a critical moment in the game. 10. g2–g3Q B 16. ×a7, c5!Q could be very good for Black. Maybe a novelty. b2 and b2 have been Now 16. ..., f7 and 16. ..., c5 are the movesQ tried before. R everybodyQ is discussing. As for 16. ..., f7; 10. B ... d8–e8 17. ×a7 Black will be obliged to squeeze some- 11. c1–b2 f7–f6 thing from his kingside attack not to end up

24 N with anQ unpleasant endgame. And for: 16. ..., 25. c2–b4N B d7–d5Q c5; 17. ×a7, e4. Q White threatened 26. a6, ×a6; 27. a8 16. B ... R e7–e6 mate. 17. Q a3×f8 h8×f8 26.B c4×d5B c6×d5 18. a5×a7 27. Nh1×d5 Qb7×d5 Blacks has some problems.K E.g.: 18. ..., e4; 28. Qb4×d5 Ke2–c2 19.a4, e3; 20.a5, e×f2+; 21. h1 and what can 29. K a7–a6N c8–d7 Karpov do about 22.a6!? Nothing! Lines like Not 29. ..., b8?; 30. b4 entering in a mat- that make Karpov head for time-trouble.Q ing net. N Q 18. ... e6–g4! 30. Rd5–e3 Rc2–e4 Karpov’sQ idea is to play Qd4 to Kas- 31. Qf1–c1 R e8–b8 parov’s a7. This takes care of the advance of 32. Q a6–f1 Kb8×b3 White a-pawn. Time:N White: 0:33 Black: 1:42. 33. f1×h3 d7–d8 Valvo’sQ idea 19. a3 seemsN strong. On Both a few minutes left- and 6 moves. People 19. ..., d4; 20.c5 to go a3-c4-a5 looks are shouting in Lyon.Q K strong. N 34. Qh3–h5 R d8–c8 19. b1–a3 35. h5–d1 Qb3×e3 After 53 minutes KasparovN finally moved. 36.K f2×e3 Qe4×e3 Valvo doesn’t think a3 was an 53-minutes 37. Kg1–h1 Qe3–e4 move. 38. Kh1–g1 Qe4–e3 19. N ... h5–h4 39. Kg1–h1 Re3–e4 20. Ba3–c2N h4–h3 40. h1–g1 f8–d8 21.0ZkZrs0Zg2–h1 f6–e4 Z0o0Z0o00Zks0Z0Z 0ZPZnZqZZ0Z0o0Z00ZpZ0Z0ZLbopZ0o0 PZ0ZqZ0ZZ0Z0o0Z00Z0Z0Z0Z S0Z0ZRJBPZNZ0O0OZPZ0Z0Op Z0SQZ0J00Z0Z0Z0OZ0Z0Z0O0Q N N The sealed move was 41. c2, but a draw was The idea is 22. f3?,N ×g3; 23.fR×g4, Q e2 agreed. mate! AlsoQ 22.f3,K ×g3; 23. f2, g6; Draw 24.h×g3, ×g3;N 25. Nf1, c5! isQ good Black, as wellB as 22.K e3, c3!;N 23. ×b7+, ×b7; 15 Game 15: 24. ×c6+, ×c6; 25. ×g4. 22. a2–a4N Lion, Nov 28, 1990. WhatNN on 22. B..., Qd2!? Henley saw: 23. e3, f3+; 24. ×f3, ×f3; 25.c5 with a4- Karpov-Kasparov a5-a6 to come. GM-elect Gallagher is punching Grunfeld Defense (D85) N Rhis way through to Kasparov’s king with 23. ..., 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 f3 and a multiple sac on g3. But it doesn’t re- 2.N c2–c4 g7–g6 ally work. N 3. b1–c3N d7–d5 22. R ... Ne4–c3 4. c4×d5 N f6×d5 23. R a1–e1 Q c3–e2+ 5. e2–e4 Bd5×c3 24. e1×e2 g4×e2 6. b2×c3 f8–g7

25 B 7. Q c1–e3 c7–c5 and White is slightly better, but Black should 8. d1–d2 0–0 be able to draw. N Now Karpov stopped and took a deep think. 11. ... b8–c6 IM Valvo said: “Karpov has a terrific sense of After a fullB 41 minutes did GK come up with a danger”. Maybe he suspected an improvement move. 11. h6 was suggested by on the 13th game.N during the 13th game. The main question now 9. g1–f3R is whether Kasparov will accept the slightly in- Game 13 saw 9. c1 with a small edge for ferior middle game after exchanges on d4 and White. Q d2, or if he’ll risk not doing so. Time: AK: 0:28 9. R ... d8–a5 GK: 0:45. 10. a1–c1 12. h2–h4 IM Tisdall observed “This is the old mainline. After 11 minutes, and practically forcing the Just swap queens and go to sleep!” Queens’ exchange: White threatens a King’s 10. ... e7–e6 side attack. And now the game is back on the tracks laid 12. B ... Kc5×d4 out by the 13th game.B 13. h6×g7 g8×g7 11. e3–h6 14. c3×d4 “Maybe Kasparov is going to sweat a bit to- day” remarkedQ IM Martin. True, the position rmbZ0skZ after ×d2 certainly is not much fun for Black, though it might be quite drawish after correct opZ0Zpap play. Q 14. K ... Ra5×d2 0Z0ZpZpA 15. Ke1×d2 B f8–d8 l0o0Z0Z0 16. d2–e3 c8–d7 Some experts now toy with 17.h5. Karpov is 0Z0OPZ0Z working on how to stopR Black’sN standard equal- izingRR maneuvre:R ac8 + (somewhere) + Z0O0ZNZ0 × and c8. And in the pressroom people PZ0L0OPO try to bring some kind of drama into the game by pushing h4-h5-h6 in various ways. If done, Z0S0JBZR though, the pawnR might just becomeR a ’weaky’. 17. c1–b1 a8–b8B 17. ..., b6 is weaker, because of 18. a6. New move and certainly better than 11.d5 B 18. f1–d3 Bwhich Karpov tried in game 13. Karpov played h6 immediately which indicated that he actu- ally wanted to repeat the line, but just bluffed by spending 11 minutes on an unimportant 0s0s0Z0Z . opZbZpjp Watson thinks that WhiteB is a lotK better af- ter, sayQ 11. ..., c×d4;K 12. N×g7, ×g7;K 13. 0ZnZpZpZ c×d4, ×d2+; 14. ×d2, c6; 15. e3. Very likely the kind of position AK is hoping for. Z0Z0Z0Z0 Like nobody else he’s capable of squeezing some- 0Z0OPZ0O thing substantial from such simple. middle- /endgames. Z0ZBJNZ0 At the most qualifiedR analizingB table theK line discussed was 11. ..., d8; 12. ×g7, ×g7. PZ0Z0OPZ Some romantics want then to try 13. h4, ZRZ0Z0ZR but GM Gallagher said: ‘It the most bor- ing move in theR position!”B TheK reason is the line: 11. ..., d8; 12. ×Qg7, ×g7;K 13.h4, A classical position in the Grunfeld-Indian. c×d4; (forced) 14.c×d4, ×d2+; 15. ×d2 And not one which makes the chessminds of the

26 pressroom all too excited. It is actually inter- esting, but mostly to experts. Generally the opinion is that this kind of dry position favours Karpov. N 18. ... c6–e7 orZ0m0Z00Z0s0Z0Z Decreasing Black control in the center in this 0o0Z0jpZ way leaves Karpov with many attractiveR possi- bilities. The straightforwardNBhc1 will force Z0Z0Z0Z0 further exchanges, but 19. e5, e8; 20. h5!? Kopens forN linesK such asB 20. ..., f6; 21.N h6+ 0Z0MPZbZ g8 22. Ng4 f7R 23. c4. As for 19. e5 Z0ZBJ0Z0 f6! and 20. ×d7 ×d7 Kasparov will (if any- thing)R be better byN pumping up pressure on d4 PZ0Z0O0S with bd8 and c6. ZRZ0Z0Z0 Mike Valvo is trying to find something for Karpov after a rush with his kingside pawns. See g2-g4 and h4-h5 or g4-g5. In any case Black 26. f2–f3? should put his bishop on c6 press against d4 with R Mephisto found a nice here. Kar- d6 and (let’s say) toy with a f7-f5. Might be- R R B come very interesting still. Or might be an early pov missedR 26. h4!, bd7 (or 26. ..., d7; draw because of their mutual lack of time. K27. h7R with the threatK of e5+;R if 26. ..., 19. h4–h5 f7–f6 g5; 27. ×g4+!, B×g4; 28.R g1+ will do 20. h5×g6 h7×g6 the trick;K on 26. ...R, h5;N 27. f4+ wins)R 27. R e5+!, ×e5; 28. b5+, d5+; 29. ×d5+, 21. h1–h2 K R N ×d5 (orR 29. ..., ×d5; 30. c6+ nets a piece). 30. ×g4. R This obviously is a critical moment in a not 26. R ... b7–d7 very dramatical game. In the commentators 27. b1–b4 room Spassky joked that White best 20th move would have been 20.h5–h4!. The chess-computer Mephisto claims that White is 3/4 of a pawn ahead. Wonder if Deep R Thought would disagree? Time: White: 2:11 MaybeB Karpov’s h2 deserves an “!”.B Kas- Black: 2:17. parov’s c6 doesn’t work. E.g.: 21. ..., c6; B BB 27. ... g4–e6 22. c4, d7. K 21. ... b7–b6 Fireworks:R K 28.f4,R a5!?;K 29.e5+, f7; 30. h7+, g8; 31. g7+!?, h8 and God only knows what is going on. Lines like that are blow- Now this is necessary. ing over the tables in the pressroom right now. 22. g2–g4 R 28. Rh2–c2 a7–a5 29. Bb4–a4R g6–g5 The threat is g5, e5. 30. d3–b5 d7–d6 22. ... e6–e5! Now most people seem to think that Karpov has overdone it with his slow positional play. So Kasparov did accept Karpov’sB invitation. Time: AK: 2:20 GK:B 2:20. B 23. d4×e5 Kd7×g4 31. Rb5–e2 Re6–d7 24.N e5×f6+ Rg7×f6 32. a4–c4 d8–e8 25. f3–d4 b8–b7? Time: AK: 2:25 GK: 2:22. Little is left of R Karpov’s advantage.R N Better was 25. ..., h8. 33. c2–b2 e7–d5+

27 0Z0ZrZ0Z rZbZka0s o0ZnZ0o00o0s0j0ZZ0ZbZ0Z0 0ZPZ0Z0ZZ0Z0O0Z00mpZqZ0Zo0opZpop Z0Z0Z0Z0PS0ZBZ0ZZ0Z0JPZ00ZRMPZ0Z S0A0JBZRPZ0MQOPOZPZ0Z0Z0 Just half an hour and ten moves has passed and already K and K are in a totally un-tested landscape. IM Martin,B the new bulletin. writer, Draw. says that 10. ..., e7 should be expected now. 10. ... a7–a5 A novelty! Karpov only took six minutes only: it was prepared beforehand. “An unusual and interesting position” says William Watson. Kasparov is in a kind of dilemma. If he allows AK’s a5-a4, then he’ll 16 Game 16: be running the risk that a lot of pieces will be Lion, Dec 4, 1990 exchanged. But to stop it will (with a2-a3) will soften up his squaresB b3 and c4 a lot.B 11. c1–b2 f8–b4 Watson thinks that White might be able to Kasparov-Karpov hold on to something quite substantial in the Scotch Game C45 current. position. Even aften an exchange of 1.N e2–e4N e7–e5 Queens. 2. g1–f3 b8–c6 12. a2–a3 3. d2–d4 e5×d4 The pressroom was divided on what’s going on in this position. Kasparov is doing it again! Scotch Opening B 12. ... b4×d2 as in the alreadyN memorable 14th game.N Spassky thinks that Black equalizes by: 4. f3×d4 g8–f6 Q N N 13. ×d2, a4; 14.c5, d5; 15.b4, f5! 5. d4×c6 b7×c6 Q Q 13. e2×d2 6.Q e4–e5 Nd8–e7 Now on 13. ..., a4; 14.b4 runs into 14. ..., 7. d1–e2 f6–d5 N N ×c4. An alternative line seems to be: 14.c5, 8. c2–c4 d5–b6 N B N d5; 15.b4, a6 and Karpov’s strong d5 B ought to make up for his lack of space. The 14th game saw 8. ..., a6. This is less common. 13. ... d7–d5 N Time: GK: 0:36 AK: 0:54. 9. b1–d2 Rochal said “Karpov is playing for a win”. OnlyN one correspondence game is known with But the opening clearly favors White: he has 9. d2: SeeligerQ - Palciauskas,1978, which con- the two Bishops and a forthcoming King side tinued: 9. ..., e6. Q attack. 9. ... e7–e6 14.R c4×d5 c6×d5 10. b2–b3 15. a1–c1

28 R 19. R ... Ra8–c8 20. c7×c8 f8×c8 rZbZkZ0s 21.R 0–0 Q Now on 21. ..., c2 White has 22. d4!. Z0o0Zpop 21. ... h7–h5 0m0ZqZ0Z A good move and Karpov’s only chance. MostR logicalQ seemsQ nowR 22.h3 h×g4 23.h×g4 c2 o0ZpO0Z0 24. d4 h6 25. f2. A good position for White. But I all similar situations in the match 0Z0Z0Z0Z Karpov has seemed capable of pulling some bril- OPZ0Z0Z0 liant defensive moves out of his position. 22. h2–h3B h5×g4 0A0L0OPO 23. h3×g4 b1–c2 Tisdall says:N “Now I understand what Karpov Z0S0JBZR is doing. His b6 is clinically dead but now he threatens to makeQ it into a piece”. Spassky saidR that White will be slightly bet- 24. d2–d4 B ter after 15. c1. White already has some good WithN the idea 24. ..., ×b3? 25.e6 and if assets. Such as the c-line and a beginning supe- the b6 moves 26.e7. Q riority on the black squares. The general feeling 24. R ... g6–e6 is that AK should have played a5-a4 when he 25. f1–f2 had the chance. Time: GK: 1:56 AK: 2:08 Seems that Kas- 15. R ... 0–0 parov wantsB to winB by direct attack.B E.g. 16. c1×c7 25. ..., ×b3 26. d3! intending Rf5. In the commentator-room Spassky and 25. ... c8–c7 French IM ShariffB are analizingQ things like Frederick Friedel (one of the creators of Chess- 16. ..., f6; 17. e2, f×e5; 18. g5 with good Base) says: “I have never seen Garry a pawn up winning chances for Kasparov. Something before!” R seems to have gone totally wrong forQ Karpov. 26. f2–h2 16. ... e6–g6 Time: GK: 2:05 AK: 2:09. Tisdall thinks that Time now: GK: 0:57 AK: 1:34 B the game might get a ‘gruesome’ finish: Kas- 17. f2–f3 Bc8–f5 parov’s attack should break through.N 18. g2–g4 Q f5–b1 26. ... b6–d7 Karpov took his time to find g6, but has IM W.Watson says: “Black is much worse, since then played quickly. On the other hand but your can never write off the greatest de- Kasparov has slowed down dramatically. Time: fender in chess.” GK: 1:20 AK: 1:36 His lead on the clock is not 27. b3–b4N a5×b4 gone yet, but little of it is left. The common 28.B a3×b4 B d7–f8 opinion is that Karpov is getting desperate. But 29. b5–f1 c2–b3 Kasparov’s position is becoming very exposed. Time: GK: 2:16B AK: 2:18. B After an exchange of rooks in the c-file, Karpov 30. Bf1–d3 Qb3–c4 might take advantage of his control of the square 31. Q d3–f5 Re6–e7 c2. GM Lein thinks that it looks very danger- 32. d4–d2 c7–c6N ous for Kasparov. Maybe the whole evalution of Time:R GK: 2:19 AK: 2:24. If 32. ..., e6?? AK’s d7-d5 has to be change!? Maybe it was a 33. h8+! mating.B R stong pawn-sacrificeB and attacking move. 33. Bb2–d4 Rc6–a6 19. f1–b5 34. R f5–b1 a6–a3 A move thatR costs Kasparov half an hour. If 35. h2–h3 Q now 19. ..., ac8 R It defends the f3 pawn and threatens f2. White has a strong reply in 20. c3! blok- Time: GK: 2:25 AK:2:28 R ing the c-file and winning time to castle andB to 35. B ... Q a3–b3 exchange the white-squared bishop with b5- 36. Qb1–c2 Ne7×b4 d3. A plan that should lead directly to won 37. d2–f2 f8–g6 endgames for White. 38. e5–e6

29 B Q R N InterestingK is also 38. ×b3 ×b3 39. h1 49. ... d3–b2 intending 40. h2. R Time: GK: 3:00R AK: 3:11 K 38. ... b3–b1+? 50. h8–e8+ e6–d6 A mistake that results inK a veryR long ending. AB brickK in Karpov’sR defenseN is the line: KMore consistentB wasK 39. Qh2 f1 40.e×f7+ 51. b4+, c6; 52. ×e5, d3 winning a ×f7 41. ×g6+B ×g6 42. c2. Q piece. B K 39. Kc2×b1 b4×b1+ 51. Ra5–b4+ Kd6–c6 40. g1–h2 f7×e6 52. Re8–c8 Kc6–d7 53. Rc8–c5 d7–e6 54. c5–c7 0Z0Z0ZkZ The last three moves were played quickly. GM Dlugy thinks that it’s all within the homework Z0Z0Z0o0 done by K+K and their seconds. Time: GK: 0Z0ZpZnZ 3:06 AK: 3:25 and running. Karpov still has to Z0ZpZ0Z0 make three moves in four minutes. ZqZ0Z0Z00Z0Z0L0JZ0Z0ZPZR0ZbA0ZPZ Z0Zbo0Z00Z0ZkZ0ZZ0S0Z0o00Z0Z0Z0Z The time-scramble wasn’t really dramatic. 0A0o0ZPZ Experts agreed that Black is closer to a draw Z0Z0ZPJ0 than White is to winning. White sealed the fol- lowing move. Q 0m0Z0Z0Z 41. f2–b2 A long night of analisys lead to the common Z0Z0Z0Z0 evaluation that GK still had some chances to win. Q 54. ... Ng7–g6 41. B ... Nb1×b2 And not the expected 54. ..., c4, maybe 42. Rd4×b2 Ng6–f4 because 55.f4!? nearly creates a mating trap 43. Bh3–h4 f4–d3 around the black King. Karpov’s 54. ..., g6 44. Kb2–c3 e6–e5 was a major decision since an endgame with 45. Bh2–g3 d5–d4 the pieces: R plus g4 pawn against B plus g7 46. c3–d2 pawn is a possibility. And with the pawn on Black goal for holding a draw is clear: ex- g7 it’s a draw, according to GM Dlugy, but it change e5 for f3, nail down the d-pawn on d3 notR so clearK with theR pawnB on g6. Some tricks: and the White g-pawn. B 55. e7+ f6B 56. d7R f7? 57.g5+ winning. 46. R ... Kc4–d5 And 56. ..., e6R 57. b7 looks goodK for White. 47. Bh4–h5 g8–f7 55. Rc7–e7 B e6–f6 48. d2–a5 56. e7–d7B d5–a2 GK took only 3 minutes onK this move com- Spassky suggested a2 just before it ap- pared to AK’s 18 minutes on f7.K peared on the board. IM Martin thinks it’s lost 48. R ... f7–e6 for AK. Kasparov has some nasty threats but 49. h5–h8 Blacks d-pawn need just a little air to get going. Time: GK: 2:57 AK: 3:08; before 3:30 the Spassky gives 60% for a Kasparov win and 40% 56th move must be made. Kasparov’s rook is for a draw. on it’s way to the a-file. Karpov’s position looks The pressroom indicatesR thatB Black isB lost. difficult. Put White rook on a6, the Black King TheK lineB in question is: 57. Ra7 any 58. e7+ on f7 and a rush with the g4-pawn might bring e6 59. g5 withR the plan a7–g7×g6 check. Black in serious trouble. 57. d7–a7

30 B 57. B ... Ba2–c4 58. b4–a5 c4–d3 59. f3–f4B e5×f4 0Z0Z0j0Z Not 59. ..., e4?K 60. b6! winningB the pawn. S0Z0Z0Z0 60. Rg3×f4 d3–c2 0Z0Z0ZpZ 61. a7–a6+ 0Z0Z0A0ZZ0Z0JbOn RZ0Z0jpZZ0Z0Z0Z00Z0Z0Z0Z Z0Z0Z0Z00Z0Z0Z0Z The winning plan includes the following A0Z0Z0Z0 stages: 0Z0o0JPZ 1. Penetrate with the King to d8; Z0Z0Z0Z0 2. Bpush the Black King toward the corner with 0mbZ0Z0Z d6; KR R Z0Z0Z0Z0 3. close the net with e8, f7 and f8. The main problem with this long-range strat- egy is the 50-movesB rule. N 75. B f4–h2 Nh5–g7 76. Bh2–g1 Kg7–h5 “Finished!” somebody is saying in the press- 77. Kg1–c5+ Kf8–g8 room. “Really?!” doubts Tisdall. K 78. Be5–d6 Bg8–f8 61. K ... N f6–f7 79. c5–d4 f5–g4 62. K f4–e5 Nb2–d3+ Time: GK: 5:04B AK: 4:35 B 63. e5×d4 Bd3–f2 80. Rd4–e5 Kg4–f5 64.B g4–g5 Kc2–f5 81. Ra7–h7 Kf8–g8 65. Ka5–d2 Nf7–e7 82. h7–c7 g8–f8 66. Rd4–d5 K f2–e4 Rumours are now that Karpov’s camp have 67. Ba6–a7+ Ne7–e8 had this structure on their analizing board this 68. Kd2–e3 Ke4–c3+ morning. If true, then its not just a brilliant 69. Bd5–e5 Ke8–d8 defensive preformance by Karpov, it’s also an 70. Re3–b6+ d8–e8 one by his seconds.K K 71. a7–c7 83. Rd6–c6 Kf8–g8 84. Bc7–e7 Kg8–f8 Time: GK: 4:21 AK: 4:22 N 85. Re5–d6 Kf8–g8 71. B ... Nc3–e4 86. Re7–e8+ Kg8–f7 72. b6–e3 e4–g3 87. Be8–e7+ f7–g8 88. d6–e5 The second time-controlB has beenN passed. GM Ron Henley confirmed that “We saw 73. e3–f4 g3–h5 something like this” this afternoon. Now the game is 88 moves old, and at the 40th move Watson says: “If this is a draw, then it will Karpov’s team looked at this kind ofK structure! be ont of the greatest comebacks in the history 88. ... g8–f8 of the game”. R K With move 88 they passed the 4th time- 74. c7–a7 e8–f8 control in this long- distance game. GM Dlugy

31 thinks that “Kasparov has improved since the In GameQ 15 Kasparov failed to equalize with beginning of the adjourment!” He suggested an 9. ..., a5. N interesting possibility for White. Put the white 10. f3–g5N c5×d4 King on h6 and sac the rook on g6. The Black 11. c3×d4 Bb8–c6 knight on h5 willR end up being trapped.B 12.R h2–h3 Rg4–d7 89. Ke7–a7 B f5–g4 13. a1–b1 a8–c8 90. Rc6–d6 Bg4–h3 91. Ra7–a3 Bh3–g4 92. Ka3–e3 Kg4–f5 0Zrl0skZ 93. Kd6–c7 B f8–f7 94. Bc7–d8 B f5–g4 opZbopap 95. Be5–b2 Bg4–e6 0ZnZ0ZpZ 96. Rb2–c3 Ke6–f5 97. Be3–e7+ B f7–f8 Z0Z0Z0M0 98. Rc3–e5 B f5–d3 99. Re7–a7 Bd3–e4 0Z0OPZ0Z 100. Ba7–c7 Ke4–b1 Z0Z0A0ZP 101. Ke5–d6+ f8–g8 102.0Z0Z0ZkZd8–e7 ZRZ0JBZRPZ0L0OPZR N Z0S0J0Z0 TheB pawnB is poisoned:Q 14.R×b7, ×Kd4!; 15.R ×d4, K×d4;B 16. ×d4, c1+; 17. d2, 0Z0A0ZpZ d1+; 18. ×d1,N a4+. N 14. Bg5–f3 Bc6–a5 Z0Z0Z0On 15. f1–d3 Bd7–e6 0Z0Z0Z0Z 16.R 0–0 e6–c4 17. Bf1–d1 b7–b5 Z0Z0Z0Z0 18. e3–g5 a7–a6 Black has no counterplay.R 0Z0Z0Z0Z 19. b1–c1 ZbZ0Z0Z0 Pressure on Black is increasing. Its knight is misplaced, and the two center White pawn are dangerous. B KarpovR resigns. There isB no defense against 19. R ... Qc4×d3 103. c8+ followed by 104. e5 and mate. 20. Q c1×c8 d8×c8 21. d2×d3 17 Game 17: 0ZqZ0skZ Lion, Dec 2, 1990 Z0Z0opap Karpov-Kasparov Grunfeld Defense (D85) N pZ0Z0ZpZ 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 2.N c2–c4 g7–g6 mpZ0Z0A0 3. b1–c3N d7–d5 0Z0OPZ0Z 4. c4×d5 N f6×d5 5. e2–e4 Bd5×c3 Z0ZQZNZP 6.B b2×c3 f8–g7 7. Q c1–e3 c7–c5 PZ0Z0OPZ 8. Nd1–d2B 0–0 Z0ZRZ0J0 9. g1–f3 c8–g4

32 R N N 21. ... f8–e8? 2. Bg1–f3 b8–c6 Now White occupies the c-file. Maybe it was 3. B f1–b5N a7–a6 better to look for exchanging the QueensQ aimingQ 4. b5–a4 Bg8–f6 Nat activatingQ theQ knight: 21.B..., Rb7; 22. a3, 5.R 0–0 f8–e7 c4; 23. ×e7, R×e7; 24. ×e7, Q×e8. 6. B f1–e1 b7–b5 22. d1–c1 Nc8–b7 7. a4–b3 d7–d6 23.N d4–d5 N a5–c4 8. c2–c3N 0–0 24. B f3–d2 Rc4×d2 9. h2–h3 Bf6–d7 25. Rg5×d2 Be8–c8 10. d2–d4 B e7–f6 26. c1–c6 R g7–e5 11.N a2–a4 c8–b7 QBlack is matedQ afterB 26. ...B, ×c6?; 27.d×c6, 12. b1–a3N e5×d4 ×c6; 28. d8+,B f8; 29. h6. B 13. c3×d4 d7–b6 27. Qd2–c3 e5–b8 28. Bd3–d4B f7–f6 29. Qc3–a5 Rb8–d6 rZ0l0skZ 30. d4–c3 Kc8–e8 31. a2–a3 g8–g7 Zbo0Zpop White victory is a matter of technique.B pmno0a0Z 32.Q g2–g3 d6–e5 33. Bc3–c5B h7–h5 ZpZ0Z0Z0 34. Ba5–c7 Q e5–a1 35. R c7–f4 Qb7–d7 PZ0OPZ0Z 36. c6–c7 d7–d8 MBZ0ZNZP 37. d5–d6R g6–g5 38.B d6–d7 B e8–f8 0O0Z0OPZ 39. R f4–d2 a1–e5 40. c7–b7 S0AQS0J0 In gameN 12 White came close to a win after 0Z0l0s0Z 13. ..., a5. B 14. B c1–f4N b5×a4 ZRZPo0j0 15. Qb3×a4 b6×a4 pZ0Z0o0Z 16. d1×a4 a6–a5 Karpov played this instantly. The plan, to ZpL0a0op anchor his knight at b4, was a part of his prepa- ration. B 0Z0ZPZ0Z 17. f4–d2 O0Z0Z0OP Undoubtly the result of Kasparov’s effortB when he took 46 minutes on his 14. f4. 0Z0A0O0Z But Karpov’s fast reply indicates that this still wasn’t new to him. R Z0Z0Z0J0 17. ... N f8–e8 18. d4–d5 N c6–b4N Kasparov resigns. Q BAlmost forced.N After 18. ..., e5; 19. ×e5, BWhite wins easily with c6 followed by ×e5; 20. c4 WhiteB has a very good position. e3–b6. 19. Qd2×b4R a5×b4 20. a4×b4 a8–b8 Karpov plays just like Kasparov would! And 18 Game 18: still he takes no time doing so. Karpov’s power- Lion, Dec 4, 1990 houses on f6 and b8 should make up for it with ease. And the chessclock tells it’s own story. Kasparov-Karpov Now Kasparov has used a full hour more than RuyLopez (C92) Karpov. No need to say who has psycological 1. e2–e4 e7–e5 superiority today. As for the position: most

33 Q natural seemsB now 21. d2R to be able to an- Spassky seems to think that Kasparov is sim- swer 21. ..., a6 with 22. b1 and b2-b4-b5 ply a full pawn up. etc. 26. R ... Rh7–h6 27. e1–e3 e8–e6 0s0lrZkZ 28. f2–f3 GM Larsen says: “GK has a positional ad- Zbo0Zpop vantage and an extra pawn: he ought to be able to win.” R 0Z0o0a0Z 28. R ... b8–c8 Z0ZPZ0Z0 29. e3–b3 R IM Davies: “GKB is winning”.Q 29. b3 0L0ZPZ0Z prepares for 29. ..., b5 30. d5. GM Watson M0Z0ZNZP says “This is a crucial game. If Kasparov wins (and Watson indeed thinks he will) then Karpov 0O0Z0OPZ has to score 4 points from the last 6 games in the match”. B S0Z0S0J0 29. R ... a6–b5 Q 30. b3–b2 21. b4–c4! B Rochal turns his thumb down on Karpov’s po- But this is much better! On 21. ..., ×b2; R R B N sition. White threatens c2. 22. a2 looks strong, since 22. ..., f6 23. b5 Q 30. ... c6–b7 simultaneously puts pressure on c7 and pre- N N 31. a3–c2 pares b5–d4. GM Dorfman, GK’s trainer Q Finally the knight can leave its lair. for a decade, thinks that now 21. ..., c8 is Q o.k. for Black. Most of Karpov’s confidence 31. Q ... b7–e7 Q Q 32. d4–f2 has disappeared after c4. IsR 21. ..., c8 good enough for Black? On 22. b1 Dorfman Vacating the d4 square for his Knight, which suggestedB 22. ..., c6! which will life back to then will have made a blitz-.R Blacks b7. And one mightQ argue the other 32. ... e6–g6 Bway round: If not 21. ..., c8, how then is Putting out bait in troubled waters. Now b7 supposed to get to a6? NQ R Q 33. d4 e5 opens for the trick: 34. a5? Another move is 21. ..., d7 with the simple R R c1+ and for the positional 34. ..., c4. plan of pushing c7-c6; Blacks seems to keep the N Q 33. c2–e3 e7–e5 balance, despite being a pawn down. R 34. b2–b1 Time: GK: 1:18 AK: 1:01. After AK’s astonishing blitz-start a tough That should kill all of Karpov’s hopes for mat- fight has evolved. Karpov do have nice assets in ing on the back rank. B his strong pair of bishops, but Kasparov has a 34. R ... b5–d7 pawn and a solid grab on some important white 35. a1–a5 squares. Some fireworks shown by John Jordan IM Davies says: “It’s completely lost for Kar- Q(bulletin-editorN andB amateur-player):R B 21. ..., pov”. d7; 22. b5, ×b2; 23. b1, ×d5 looks Q R 35. ... e5–e7 possible for Karpov, but 24.e×d5, ×e1+; R R Q Spassky: “Karpov should spank his seconds 25. ×e1, ×b5 opens up for 26. c7! win- ning on the spot! for this result of badR preparations onQ his hands”. Q 36. a5–a7 e7–d8 21. ... d8–c8 N After one hour and three minutes AK decided 37. e3–d5B N on this predictableN move after all. B NTo meet 37. ..., ×h3 with e7+ and 22. Qf3–d4 b7–a6 ×g6. K 23. c4–c3B c7–c5 37. K ... Rg8–h7 24.Q d5×c6 Qf6×d4 38. g1–h2 Rc8–b8 25. c3×d4 c8×c6 39.Q f3–f4 Qg6–e6 26. b2–b4 40. f2–d4 d8–e8

34 0s0ZqZ0Z 0O0LPO0ZZ0ZNZ0Z00Z0orZ0oS0ZbZpok Z0ZPZ0Z00O0o0s0ZZ0ZkZpo00Z0Z0Z0Z NZRZ0Z0Z00Z0Z0ZPJZ0Z0Z0ZP Z0Z0Z0Z00Z0Z0Z0J0ZRZ0OPZ 41. Nc7 doesR not win immediately.Q Q TheQ reason Ris: 41. c7,N ×Be4; 42. ×d6, e7; 43. ×e7, ×e7; 44. d5, f5. It should win, but it may be a bit unclear.R B 41. b1–e1 d7–c6 Q Q Karpov resigned. 42. Rd4–d3 e8–f8 43. e1–c1 Kasparov moved instantly. Obviously he had everything worked out beforehand.B 43. ... c6×d5 A sad decision, but it was this or allowing two White rooks to penetrate and take full control 19 Game 19: of the 7th rank. R 44.Q e4×d5+ e6–g6 Lion, Dec 12, 1990 45. d3–f5 Kasparov still moved instantly. K 45. ... h7–g8 R R Karpov-Kasparov 46. Qa7–c7 g6–f6 47. f5–d7 King’s Indian (E94) And now Karpov must resign, thought ev- N 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 erybody. Isn’t he just losing his Queen? No. 2. c2–c4 g7–g6 Black is lost in this position, indeed, but Karpov N B 3. b1–c3 f8–g7 wanted so see if Kasparov had done his home- 4. e2–e4 d7–d6 work well enough to pass the test. N R 5. g1–f3 0–0 47. ... b8–d8 B Q Q 6. f1–e2 e7–e5 48. d7×d8 f8×d8 B R Q 7. c1–e3 c7–c6 49. c7–c8 d8–f8 N R R 8. d4–d5 f6–g4 50. c1–c4 f6–f5 B R K 9. e3–g5 f7–f6 51. Rc8×f8+ g8×f8 52. c4–d4 h6–h5 Q Q N K After 9. ..., b6; 10. 00, ×b2; 11. a4 53. b4–b5 K f8–e7 the Black Queen is confined to a3. 54. b5–b6 e7–d7 B N 10. g5–h4 b8–a6 55. g2–g4 N N 11. f3–d2 g4–h6 So Karpov’s problem was that he couldn’t stop the b-pawn. This variant of the King’s-IndianN is very slow. 55. ... Rh5×g4 12. a2–a3 B h6–f7 56.R h3×g4 f5–f6 13.B f2–f3 g7–h6 57. d4–c4 14. h4–f2

35 rZbl0skZ rZ0l0skZ Z0ZPo0Z0nZpo0opaopZ0ZnZp 0OPZPZ0OZ0oPopZ00o0o0Zpao0mbZnZp S0ZQJ0ZR0O0MBAPOO0M0ZPZ00ZPZPZ0Z ZRZ0JNZR0ZQZBA0ZO0M0ZPO0 GM Watson says: “I don’t know what is going on”. This seems to be the kind evaluation that most of the experts make right now. Maybe the Seirawan: “This kind of position is much eas- problem is that most of the people at the an- ier to play for White”. alyzing tables are “pro-Kasparov”, which make 14. Q ... B f6–f5 them reluctant to accept that he is in danger of 15. d1–c2 c8–d7 being overrun by Karpov’s army of pawns. Time Kasparov took 15 minutes on this move. The after 20th: AK: 1:19 GK: 1:20. GM Sosonko game seems quiet, but in this kind of position thinks that there are too many pieces on the open war might suddenly break out all over the board. “After 20 moves, there should have been place. some exchanges.” says Sosonko. And GM Wat- 16. b2–b4 c6–c5 son has made up his mind now: “Black is O.K. R because where is White to put his King?” 17. a1–b1 21. g3–g4B f5×g4 This type of position is thought to be just 22.N f3×g4 Nh6–f4 playable for Black, no more. And often he has 23. f1–e3 c7–e8 to counter-attack on the kingside. Kasparov is building up pressure on the king- 17. N ... b7–b6 side, and if not careful, then Karpov might face 18. d2–f1 great difficulties withN his exposed king-position. 24. c3–d1 The game must open up someday and some- “All the British players here like Black po- how, but where and when? Rumours in the sition - right?” asked Rochal, and continued: press-room was that Karpov is a little better, “But I’m not British so I prefer White”. Ex- but many seem to sense that Kasparov is trying perts indeed are divided on their evaluation at to win today. B this moment. And nearly no concrete lines are 18. ... h6–f4 being discussed. The position simply isn’t a tac- Played after full 25 minutes of thinking. tical one, yet. 19. g2–g3 GM Speelman seems to think that Karpov is doomed to just hold the position. And that Surprise in the press-room. Karpov did take Kasparov will be fine if he can make something the challenge. Q B happen anywhere. Moves like 24. ..., c8 19. ... f4–h6 N or 24. ..., f6 are discussed here, but nobody 20. h2–h4 canR find a way for Black to break through after Karpov played this instantly. Finally the 25. g1. And Speelman toyed with 24. ..., a5. game gets going. This must be the first time in But that would possibly give Karpov a heaven his life that Karpov has moved all of his pawns for his King after b4-b5. And in fact, White ahead. N might consider calmly to walk with his King to 20. ... a6–c7 a2 in many positions.

36 24. ... h7–h6 At the Russian table in the press-room GM 0Z0Z0skZ Geller thinks 25.h5 is the best move for Karpov now. Time before 25th: AK: 1:50 GK: 1:48. ZqZ0Z0Z0 25. h4–h5 g6–g5 0ZRo0m0o One more major issue is settled. Karpov can get his knight to f5 anytime, but after an ex- Z0mPoPoP change Black ought to be able to push e4 or g4, and thereby finding an exit for his pieces. No- 0ZPZ0aPZ body leaves the boardR anymore. N Z0A0ZBZ0 26. h1–g1 e8–f6 0ZQZ0ZRZ Now Speelman thinks this is just very good for White. R Q Z0sNZ0ZK 27. Kg1–g2 Nd8–c8 28. e1–f1 f7–d8 Draw Kasparov has played his last five moves in Everybody is shouting at the press-room. A about 4 minutes.K N strange end to a strange game. GM Speelman 29. f1–g1 d8–b7 thinks that Karpov must have been scared of losing after, say, an exhange of Queens plus e5- Some in the press-room believe that it will be N e4 and f6-d7-e5. Black keeps getting beauti- a draw. But draws counts less than nothing to ful positions. Maybe Karpov was very right to Karpov, and he has a free shot at a win in this take Kasparov draw-offer without even giving it position though it may well prove impossible. a second thought. But now the time ticks in GK’s favour. Time before 30th:K AK: 2:14 GK: 1:53. 30. g1–h1 c5×b4 20 Game 20: 31.N a3×b4B a7–a5 Lion, Dec 15, 1990 32. e3–f5 d7×f5 33. e4×f5 Kasparov Karpov And suddenly the game is getting wide open! Ruy Lopez N 1. e2–e4 e7–e5 Kasparov might play 33. ..., ×d5 now, but N N B 2. g1–f3 b8–c6 it will bring life to Karpov’s e2. B 33. ... a5×b4 3. B f1–b5N a7–a6 R N 4. b5–a4 g8–f6 34. b1×b4 b7–c5 B R N 5. 0–0 f8–e7 35. b4×b6 c5–e4 R R Q 6. f1–e1 b7–b5 36. b6–c6 c8–b7 B B 7. a4–b3 d7–d6 37. f2–e1 8. c2–c3B 0–0 Karpov’s mild time-trouble adds to the sud- 9. h2–h3 Rc8–b7 den excitement in the game. 10.N d2–d4 Bf8–e8 11. b1–d2 e7–f8 Time before 37:AK: 2:24 GK: 2:10. R 12. a2–a4 h7–h6 37. ... a8–a1 B B N 13. b3–c2 e5×d4 38. e2–f3 e4–c5 N B 14. c3×d4 c6–b4 39. e1–c3 B 15. c2–b1N c7–c5 “Who is winning?” is the standard question 16.R d4–d5 f6–d7 at the press-room. Looks like Karpov is about 17. a1–a3 f7–f5 to eat d6. And Kasparov can hardly afford to The two players are tracking the 4th game exchange pieces here, but then the position of from New York. Without thinking Kasparov Karpov’s pieces seem a little backward.R now decided to followR in Timman’sN path. 39. ... a1–c1 18. a3–e3 d7–f6

37 Karpov took 4 minutes on this move. Maybe Karpov decided on this after 34 min. IM he had hoped for 18.e×f5 as Kasparov played DaviesB thinks that Karpov was a bit paranoid in New York? about b1 when he played c5-c4. And he also thinks that we’re seing the end of the match today. If Kasparov does win this game, then rZ0lrakZ Karpov’s situation would be nearly impossible indeed. GM Lein just said that he doesn’t be- ZbZ0Z0o0 lieve in this for Black.N pZ0o0m0o 23. d2×e4 Polugajevski just agreed to that “Karpov de- ZpoPZpZ0 Rstroyed hisB position” by not playing 22. ..., c8; 23. c3, a5. N Pm0ZPZ0Z 23. ... f6×d5 ZBAQS0J00O0M0OPZZ0Z0SNZPN pZ0o0Z0oZbZ0Z0o0rZ0lra0j 19. f3–h2 The name of this line is “The Zaitsev- vari- Z0ZnZ0Z0 ation of the Ruy Lopez”, but it ought to bear Karpov’s name since he has made it popular. In PmpZNZ0Z his game against Timman in FebruaryN Karpov Z0Z0S0ZP choosed 18. ..., f4, but 18. ..., f6 is known (was already known) from a footnote to the de- 0A0Z0OPM Firmian - Ivanov, Chicago 1988, where Black too choosed 18. ..., f4. So KarpovN took 4 min- ZBZQS0J0 utes on the untested 18. ..., f6, only toN be Q meet by Kasparov’s immediate replay 19. h2, Deep Thoughts suggestedQ here 24. Rh5! as the real novelty in this game. K winning.N B One line: 24. Nh5, c3; 25. ×c3!, 19. ...R g8–h8B ×c3; 26. ×c3R and both b4 andR h6 are hit. OneB idea is:N 20.e×f5 ×e3 21.f×e3!? ×d5 24. e3–g3 e8–e6 22.e4 f7 23. df3 with a direct attack on A good defensive move, planning for Qe7 and Black weakened King-side. Time at 20th: GK: Re8 with strong counterplay, but will it be 0:34. AK: 0:37 enough? “The move is fantastic! Maybe he 20. b2–b3 can hold the position now.” says Spassky. But Karpov is under pressure. Look at Kasparov’s he also kept touching his nose to indicate that powerful bishops (put Bc1 on b2), his Rook on Blacks position stillN smells bad. Q the 3rd rank, Nh2 which might jump to g4 and 25. h2–g4 d8–e8 naturally Qd1. Time after BN 25th: GK: 1:38 AK: 2:11. 20. ... b5×a4 26. Ng4×h6 c4–c3 21. b3×a4 c5–c4 27. h6–f5 Karpov has to neutralize Kasparov’s bishop Time: GK: 1:41 AK: 2:22. Karpov only has on b1 with Nd3. GM Lein thinks that this must 8 minutes to make his last 13 moves before the be better for White. Everybody seems to agree, time-control. but Karpov ’s last move 21. ..., c4 do look like a 27. Q ... Bc3×b2 good try to kill White’s attack on the king-side 28. d1–g4 b7–c8 before it even getB started. At the european analysing board everybody 22. c1–b2 moves the pieces around frantically in search of Watson thinks that Kasparov has a strong mating lines. And at the All-Soviet analysing- attack. Rochal thinks that Blacks position table nobody moves the pieces but everybody “smells”. talks and wave with their hands. It seems that 22. ... f5×e4 they trust White possibilities.

38 Q R 29. Ng4–h4+ e6–h6 Karpov resigned. 30. f5×h6 g7×h6 It looked like a very very hard decision, Kar- pov thought for several minutes before he finally rZbZqa0j gave in. Some call this the end of the match. In any case, it surely was the most colorful fire- Pm0ZNZ0LZ0ZnZ0Z0pZ0o0Z0oZ0Z0Z0Z0 works of the match. Z0Z0Z0SP 21 Game 21: 0o0Z0OPZ Lion, Dec 19, 1990 ZBZ0S0J0 Karpov Kasparov K King’s Indian N 31. g1–h2 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 Found and made to bring Karpov in even 2.N c2–c4B g7–g6 worse time-trouble. Q 3. b1–c3 f8–g7 31. N ... Qe8–e5 4. e2–e4 d7–d6 32. Re4–g5 Be5–f6 5. f2–f3 33. e1–e8 c8–f5 Karpov replyed instantly. Not wasting expen- The Samisch-variation chosen by Karpov with sive seconds, but probably overlooking.what fol- f2-f3 is one of the best King’s Indian nut- lows. crackers. And it completes a nice full circle. Q Q Last time Karpov played the Samish-line was 34. h4×h6+ f6×h6 N K in game one in New York. 35. g5–f7+ h8–h7 B Q 5. ... 0–0 36. b1×f5+ h6–g6 B B K 6. c1–e3 e7–e5 37. f5×g6+ h7–g7 N R 7. d4–d5 f6–h5 38. e8×a8 Q What fireworks! The last moves were blitzed 8. d1–d2 f7–f5 out in only fraction of a minute. Here Kasparov 9. 0–0–0 a7–a6 stopped to think for a moment. B Karpov is thinking. The position is standard, 38. R ... f8–e7 so Karpov is probably checking his preparations. 39. Ba8–b8K a6–a5 In the 1st game Kasparov tried a minor anoma- 40. B g6–e4+ g7×f7 lity with 6. ..., c6. Today Kasparov probably 41. e4×d5+ prefers to leave it all up to Karpov and make him create the game, for the simple reason that a draw now counts 0.9 points for GK and 0.1 0S0Z0Z0Z points for Karpov.B Z0Z0akZ0 10. f1–d3 0Z0o0Z0Z After 12 minutes KarpovK played what appears to be a new move. 10. b1 has always been o0ZBZ0Z0 played here (according to the NIC and Chess- Base files). Pm0Z0Z0Z 10. ... c7–c5 Z0Z0Z0SP Time after Blacks 10th: AK: 0:27. GK: 0:09 GM Speelman found just a few games with this 0o0Z0OPJ type of position in the databases. Kasparov’s Z0Z0Z0Z0 10. ...,c5 seems be a provocation. N 11. d5×c6 b8×c6

39 pov makes moves which are not understood until the day after. N rZbl0skZ 18. B ... N f6–d7 19. b6–g1 d7–c5 ZpZ0Z0ap IM Tisdall feelsN that Black is better now. pZno0ZpZ 20. d5–b6 In the press-room very few people analyze the Z0Z0opZn game. “The match is finished so why bother?” Hampered as he is by blockade of b6 and the 0ZPZPZ0Z lack of counter-play in general, Kasparov has to Z0MBAPZ0 find something not to drift into a far too passive position. R PO0L0ZPO 20. ... c8–d8 Time after BlackN 20th: AK: 1:28 GK: 1:25 Z0JRZ0MR 21. e2–c3 Lev Alburt says:N “It still equal. Now Kas- parov has to play b4 to prepare an exchange The position is already very unstable. Karpov on d5. I don’t believe that Kasparov should al- may win the pawn on d6 in many different ways, low White’s knights to go to b6 and d5.” Time but his king might easily get into serious trouble after W 21th: AK: 1:33 GK: 1:32. in the meantime.N 12. c3–d5 IM Ligterink says: “Looks like a very good 0Z0s0s0j Bposition for White.”N Black should not allow b6 but 12.N..., d4 runs into a new prob- ZpZ0Zqap lem after 13. e2. B 12. ... c8–e6 pMnobZpZ Kasparov took 14 minutes on this. Time after Z0m0opZ0 Blacks 12th: AK:B 0:35 GK: 0:24 Q 13. Ne3–b6 d8–d7 0ZPZPZ0Z 14. g1–e2 Karpov’s advantage is beyond discussion.R Z0MBZPZ0 14. K ... Qa8–c8 PO0L0ZPO 15. Rc1–b1 d7–f7 16. h1–e1 ZKZRS0A0 Alburt thinks that this dynamic position could be slightly better for White, due to his N 21. ... c6–d4 plusses on d5 and b6. One interesting idea “The less conventional approach” according pointed out by AlburtN was that Black might to Lev Alburt. counterattack by using f4 as a platform. N K 22. c3–d5 16. ... g8–h8 Karpov replied nearly instantly. Having his The general opinion at the pressroom seems knights on their optimal squares just can’t be to be that Kasparov’s position is “playable” if bad. But then again - they look nice but also a not equal. B bit harmless. 17. d3–c2 B 22. ... e6×d5 Karpov thought for 22 minutes to find this. Time after BlackN 22nd: AK: 1:37 GK: 1:38 The quality of the move is that it keeps “con- 23. b6×d5 f5×e4 trol”. Always a key-word to the understanding Also played instantly. Whatever advantage of Karpov’s play. N Karpov might have had - it’s difficult to put 17. ... h5–f6 an eye on now. Kasparov is equally wellN repre- Lev Alburt saysB “It’s pretty equal”. sented in the center after getting his h5 to 18. c2–d3 c5. What kind of move is this? Well, it is a “Kar- 24.R f3×e4Q b7–b5 povian move!” Like no other grandmaster Kar- 25. e1–f1 f7–d7

40 A very unbalanced situation has arisen. If Time after Black 32nd: AK: 2:17 GK: 2:16 Kasparov can hold on to his attacking chances, Rumours in the press-room are that Black might then he might even win the game. If not - then be better here. he might end up with an endgame with a very 33. a2–a3 weak pawn on b5 and lose. Time after White’s 33rd: AK: 2:21 GK: 2:21 26.R c4×b5R a6×b5 33. ... h7–h5 27. f1×f8+ d8×f8 It is difficult to see the idea behind Kasparov’s Now GM Alburt thinks that “White is slightly h7-h5. It surely weakensK his white squares. better. Black should have delayed 34. b1–a2 of the f-pawns. Anyway, Kasparov should be A far more sensible way to kill future back able to hold on.” Q rank problems. But Karpov took full 5 minutes 28. h2–h3 d7–d8 on this. Time: AK: 2:26 GK: 2:23. Time after Black 28th: AK: 2:11. GK: 1:52 34. ... Kb5–b4 Everybody at the pressroom agrees that Kar- 35. a3×b4 a1–a8+ pov’s position is favorable, but now he’s seri- “I think Black is slightly better” says Lev Al- ously getting shortB on time. burt. K N 29. g1×d4 e5×d4 36. Ka2–b1 Nc5–b3 37. Kb1–c2 Nb3–a1+ 38. Qc2–b1 Qa1–b3 0Z0l0s0j 39. Re2–f2 Q g5–d8 Z0Z0Z0ap 40. f4–f7 d8×e8 0Z0oPZ0ZZpmNZ0Z00Z0o0ZpZ 0Z0o0ZpZZ0Z0ZRa00Z0ZqZ0j ZKZRZ0Z0PO0L0ZPZZ0ZBZ0ZPQ ZnZBZ0ZP0O0oPZ0ZZ0ZNZ0Zp 30. d2–e2 0O0Z0LPZ Karpov might win the pawn on b5, but it would also open up for Kasparov’s counter-play ZKZ0Z0Z0 on the black squares. The game seems to be- come increasingly unbalanced as the pieces are Karpov is going to seal his next move. “Un- being exchanged. clear” says Alburt about the position. The ex- Time: AK: 2:12 GK: 2:07. GM Alburt says perts at the pressroom are in doubt about the that “we can very well have a decision today”. position, where a whole World Championship is Karpov last move really most have caused Kas- at stake. N parov problems. Q ROne good lineK forQ White goes:N 41. Ke7, 30. R ... d8–h4 a1+;R 42. Kc2, a4;Q 43. K×g6+, h7; 31. d1–f1 44. ×g7+ ×g7 45.N f8+R ×g6 46.e5+..K Karpov answered instantly.R Isn’t theQ pawn NMore complexN is 41.K e7,N a1+;K 42. c2, Nhanging on e4 after 31. ...Q, ×f1 32. ×f1 c5; 43. ×g6+, g8; 44. e7+, h8Q possi- ×e4 ? Hardly, since 33. e2 opens up for bly with a draw! Notice that 44. ..., ×e7 in a strong White attack. R thisR line doesn’tR work becauseK WhiteN wins after 31. ... f8–e8 45. ×e7, c1+; 46. ×c1, 46. ×d3+ and Kasparov simply is threateningN to reduce the White b-pawn is decisive.N R K gameQ to a draw with a line like: ×d3 followed NAnotherN line isK 41. e7, R a1+; 42.K c2, by ×e4. R Q c5;Q 43. ×g6+,K h7; 44. ×g7+, ×g7; 32. f1–f4 h4–g5 45. ×d4+, ×g6; 46.b×c5, d×c5 where

41 White seems unable to grab the c5- pawn with- out allowing Black strong counter-play. NGMR Dlugy foundK theN far more pragmatic 41. e7, a1+; 42. c2, c1! where White very 0Z0Z0Z0Z well mightK haveN to settle forK a immediateN draw with 43. d2, b3+; 44. c2, c1 etc. Z0Z0Z0j0 41. b4–b5 0M0Z0ZpZ Surprise!N The wholeN world has been analysing ZPZ0o0Z0 41. e7 (and 41. b6). “It’s probably a draw now” says Alburt. K 0Z0ZPZ0o 41. K ... Na8–a1+ 42. Rb1–c2 K b3–c5 Z0JBZ0Z0 43. Qf7×g7 Qh8×g7 0Z0Z0Z0Z 44. Q f2×d4+ e8–e5 45. d4×e5+K d6×e5 Z0Z0Z0Z0 46.N b5–b6 Ka1–g1 47. d5–e3 g1–e1

Those eight moves were blitzed out on no time at all. Both Karpov and Kasparov obviously had done their homework well in this endgame. And again, all the critical moves were blitzed White might very well win Kasparov’s knight out. Alburt says “Now it is a draw. Not 100 for his strong b6-pawn in many lines, but the percent, but 95!”N TheR line whichN he thinksR of cost will be his kingside pawn. And in a later most be: 57. d7, f3; 58.Q ×Qe5, f4; 59. race between b2 pawn and h5-pawn Black might b6, h3; 60. b7, h2;N 61. b8= , h1=K . come first. N K 57. Kb6–c4 h3×d3+ 48. Ne3–c4 Ke1–g1 58. c3–d3 h4–h3 49. c4–e3 g1–e1 59. b5–b6 h3–h2Q 60. b6–b7Q Q h2–h1 RR=QXY The second repetition of this position. GM 61.K b7–b8 RR=QXYQh1–f1+ Lev Alburt believes that Black will be able to 62. Kd3–c3 Q f1–c1+ hang on to a draw.N 63. Kc3–b3 Qc1–d1+ 50. e3–c4 64. Nb3–a2 Q d1–a4+ 65. c4–a3 a4×e4 Karpov played this after a good ten minutes Q K 66. b8–c7+ g7–h6 thought. Kasparov came back and seems to hes- N Q R 67. a3–c4 e4–d5 itate to repeat e1-g1. K K 68. a2–b2 e5–e4 50. ... e1–g1 Q K 69. K c7–f4+ Qh6–g7 After 28 minutes of “deep thoughts” Kas- 70. Kb2–c3 Qd5–d3+ parov did repeat his move. Now it’s Karpov 71. Qc3–b4 Kd3–d4 who hesitates. He can take a draw immediately 72. K f4–h4 Q g7–f7 N 73. b4–b5 d4–d5+ with 51. e3 but that’s hardly the big idea. K Q 74. Qb5–b4 Qd5–d4 Time: 2:23. GK: 2:59. Rumours are that at 75. Qh4–h7+ Qd4–g7 the All-Soviet analysing-table in the pressroom 76. Qh7–h1 Kg7–d4 NKarpov wins.N AR possible lineK goes: 51. b4, 77. Qh1–h4 K f7–g8 b7; 52. ×e5, ×g2+; 53. c3.K 78. Qh4–f4 Kg8–g7 51.K b2–b4 Ng1×g2+ 79. K f4–c1 Q g7–f6 52. Kc2–c3 N c5–a4+ 80. Kb4–b5 Qd4–d5+ 53. N c3–b3 Ka4×b6 81. Kb5–b6 Kd5–d4+ 54. Kc4×b6 K g2–g3 82. Nb6–c6 Q f6–e6 55. b3–c3 g3×h3 83. Kc4–e3 Qd4–a4+ 56. b4–b5 h5–h4 84. c6–b6 a4–b4+

42 GM Alburt thinks that this is a good choice by Karpov, fromN a psycological pointB of view. 0Z0Z0Z0Z 19. d2–e4 d5–f7 OneN point in Karpov’s favour hereR is that Z0Z0Z0Z0 20.N×d6N doesn’t work to 20. ..., ×e1+; 0J0ZkZpZ 21. ×e1, e5. 0l0ZpZ0ZZ0Z0Z0Z0 20.rZ0lrakZ a4×b5 d6–d5 Z0L0Z0Z00Z0Z0Z0ZZ0Z0M0Z0 0m0ZNZ0ZZPopZPZ0pZ0Z0Z0oZ0ZnZbo0 Draw 0O0Z0OPZS0Z0ZNZP 22 Game 22: Lion, Dec 26, 1990 ZBAQS0J0N Kasparov-Karpov 21. e4–c3 Ruy Lopez Karpov surely has build an impressive center, 1.N e2–e4N e7–e5 but it might rest on “feet of clay”.R 2. Bg1–f3 b8–c6 21. ... e8×e1+ 3. B f1–b5N a7–a6 Kasparov looks as if he’s building up concen- 4. b5–a4 Bg8–f6 tration, while Karpov often stares out into the 5.R 0–0 f8–e7 playing-hall. Alburt thinks that: “This is ba- 6. B f1–e1 b7–b5 sically what Karpov needs. A complex game 7. a4–b3 d7–d6 where GK has committed himself to a kingside- 8. c2–c3B 0–0 attack.” N 9. h2–h3 Rc8–b7 22. f3×e1 B 10. d2–d4 f8–e8 AlburtQ suggested: 22. ..., d4; 23. e4!?. On “Karpov is offering him the World Champi- 22. ×e1 KasparovN had to find a good answer onship” said Tisdall. AndN Kasparov did seem to 22. ..., d4; 23. e4, a×b5. Chopping off to give a thought to 11. g5 to askR KarpovN if too many pieces would leave Karpov with an heR would be interested in 11. ..., f8; 12. f3 endgame which he could win on his automated- ( e8) and draw.N B pilot due to his strong central pawns. 11. b1–d2 e7–f8 Time after W 22nd: GK: 0:42 AK: 0:29. 12.B a2–a4 h7–h6 Alburt liked the move choosen by GK and 13. b3–c2N e5×d4 saidN that heN was planningB toB play: 22. ...R, d4; 14.B c3×d4 c6–b4 23. a2!, R×a2; 24.Q ×a2, ×Qa2; 25. K×a2, 15. c2–b1N c7–c5 a×b5;Q 26. ×a8, ×a8; 27. b3+, h8; 16.R d4–d5 f6–d7 28. ×b5 with an edge for White. 17. a1–a3 f7–f5 Dlugy said thatB KasparovR was heading for Karpov follows his own footsteps from the 22. ..., d4; 23. e4!?, b8; 24.b×a6, d×c3; 20th game. 25.a7 andB White looks right.N And on 23. ..., 18. e4×f5 d×Qc3; 24. ×a8 and d7 is hanging after The move which brought Kasparov into a lot 24. ×a8. of trouble in the 4th game at the New York leg Another suggestion was 22. ..., a5. of the match. B The common opinion (Alburt, Dlugy and oth- 18. ... b7×d5 ers) is that White has an edge. And the idea

43 N behind Kasparov’s last move 22. B×e1 is ob- Time after B 32nd: GK 1:29 AK: 1:51. viousB now. AfterQ 22. ..., d4; 23.N e4!, d×c3; The general opinion in Lyon is that White 24. ×a8 his d1 willN be hitting d7. And as should be able to draw this, but not without for 22. ..., a×b5; 23. ×b5, that will just leave difficulties. Alburt thinks that Kasparov has White a pawn up as Dlugy remarked pragmat- improved his chancesQ of drawing theK game. ically. Alburt now is convinced that Kasparov 33. d1–g4 g8–h7 has got out of the opening with a significiant ad- vantage. But “It’s not without counter-chances for Black. It’s not a position where only GK can 0Z0Z0a0Z play for a win” says Alburt. 22. ... d5–d4 Z0l0Zbok Karpov has spentN 40 minutes on this move. 23. B c3–a2 0Z0Z0Z0o On 23. e7 BlackR might have beenR o.k. af- ZPm0ZPZ0 ter eitherN 23. ..., Bc8 or 23.B ..., a7.R Now 23. ..., R×a2;Q 24. ×a2, Q ×a2; 25. Q×a2, 0Z0Z0ZQZ a×b5; 26. ×a8, ×a8; 27. b3+ and ×b5 looks fine for Kasparov. N Z0Z0A0ZP 23. B ... b4×a2 0Z0Z0OPZ 24. b1×a2 c5–c4 The product of Karpov’s 44 minute “think” Z0Z0ZBJ0 on his 22nd move.R N 25. a3×a6 d7–c5 R Q B Karpov clearly is trying to keep up as much A line like 26. ×a8, ×a8; 27. b1, d3 hardly can be Kasparov’s idea of big fun. tension as possible. Which is why he tries to R Q avoid an exchange of bishops on c4. Alburt says: 26. a6×a8 d8×a8 B “Karpov could have tried to get more from the 27. a2–b1 d4–d3 Alburt says: “It is unclear if Kasparov will be position than he has got. It looks even more able to save the game.” And at the analysing drawish than it didB a few moves ago.” table Kasparov’s top-second, Mikhail Gurevich 34. f1–c4 (9th in the World) looks for lines where White The point is that KarpovB cannot win an might draw after sacrificing a piece on Karpov’s endgame where he only has f8 against White strong pawns. army of pawns for the simple reason that the B black-squared bishop and the h6-pawn cannot 28. c1–e3 Alburt says: “Kasparov is in trouble, but he win. An exchange on c4 evidently will lead to has many ways to try to save position.” further exchanges and draw. All experts in Lyon Q agree now: Draw. 28. ... a8–a5 B Kasparov’s problems are plenty. First of all 34. Q ... f7×c4 he’ll have problems hanging on to his b-pawns. 35. g4×c4 Spassky is saying that White may draw with And Karpov chances for a win are diminishing N dramatically. Kasparov looks relaxed now. 29. ×d3! Q 29. b2–b3 35. ... c7–e5 Time after W 29th: GK: 1:23 AK:N 1:26. Not the most exciting position in a game 29. N ... c5×b3 which might decide a whole World Champi- 30. Be1×d3 c4×d3 onship. Q B 31. b1×d3 36. c4–f7 f8–d6 Alburt says: “Karpov is better, but Kasparov 37. g2–g3 has very good chances to draw.” N Time after W 37th: GK: 1:50 AK:Q 2:23. 31. B ... b3–c5 37. ... QQ e5–e7BN 32. d3–f1 So - can Black win after × and × ? Kasparov’s last move indicates that he’s going Karpov seems to think so, at least. A World to “sit” from now on - and watch how Karpov Championship might be balancing on theQ cor- is going to break through. Q Brect evaluationB of theB endgame after 38. ×e7, 32. ... a5–c7 ×e7; 39. ×c5, ×c5. “Immediately draw”

44 says Roshal, that usually is one of Karpov’s sup- 10. 0–0–0 f7–f5 porters. Q K 11.N e4×f5 g6×f5 QAnother lineQ is: 38. g6+,B h8; 39. f6, 12.N g1–h3 ×f6; 40. ×f6, g×f6; 41. ×h6 and Black 12. h3 is, if not unknown,B then aK least less only has one singleQ pawn to put hisK hopes on. common than moves like d3 andN b1. 38. f7–g6+ h7–h8 12. ... b8–a6 Alburt says: “I’ll not be surprised if Kasparov tries to play a fewB moves. He mightB try 39. b6.” 39. B e3–d4 Q d6–e5 rZbZ0skZ 40. Qd4×c5 Ke7×c5 41. Qg6–e8+ Kh8–h7 opo0l0ap 42. Qe8–g6+ h7–h8 nZ0o0Z0Z 43. g6–e8+ Z0ZPopZn ZPl0aPZ00Z0Z0Z0oZ0Z0Z0o00Z0ZQZ0j Z0JRZBZRPO0L0Z0OZ0M0APON0ZPZ0Z0Z 0Z0Z0Z0Z This version of the King’s Indian Samisch Z0Z0Z0OP variation is quite different from the mutual king- side attack position which arose shortly after the 0Z0Z0O0Z opening in game 21. Here the battle-ground first of all is e4 + e5 + f4 + f5 squares. Karpov Z0Z0Z0J0 might get a vicious attack on Kasparov’s king if he can open up the g-file in the right way, but Draw. Black might (nearly) get equally well counter- Kasparov is confirmed World Champion, hav- play from the veryR same squares. ing reached 12 point out 24 possbile. 13. h1–g1 R Karpov took 17 minutes on this. 13. g1 23 Game 23: makes it possible for White to play g3-g4 with- out any further preparations. N Lion, Dec 29, 1990 13. N ... K h5–f6 14. Bh3–f2 Bg8–h8 Karpov-Kasparov 15. B f1–e2 c8–d7 King’s Indian Defense N 16. e3–g5 1. d2–d4 g8–f6 TensionN is buildingN up.N The pointB is that after 2.N c2–c4B g7–g6 16. ..., c5; 17. d3, ×d3; 18. ×d3 Black 3. b1–c3 f8–g7 will not be able to keep control of the key-square 4. e2–e4 d7–d6 e4 after a White g3-g4. And once on the hands 5.B f2–f3 0–0 of White, the e4-square will be a platform for 6. c1–e3N e7–e5 an attack on the Black king. N 7.Q d4–d5 Q f6–h5 16. ... a6–c5 8. d1–d2 d8–h4+ 17. g2–g4 Deviating from the 21st game. Q Alburt says: “White maybe is slightly better, 9. g2–g3 h4–e7 but Black has different kinds of counter-play. In the past KasparovN has playedQN the daring 17. ... e5–e4 Queen-sacQ N 9. ..., ×g3; 10. f2, ×f1; 11. 18. f3×e4 f5×e4 ×h4, ×e3 with some success. Among others Alburt says: “It’s not clear. It very likely that he drew Seirawan with the line in a World Cup White will win the e4 pawn but maybe Black game a little more than a year ago. will get some .”

45 B N 19. g5–e3 N c5–a4 20. g4–g5 a4×c3 0Z0Z0snj 0Z0o0m0Zopobl0aprZ0Z0s0j 0Z0ApZNOZ0Z0Z0Z00Z0L0Z0ZopZ0Zqap PO0LBM0OZ0m0A0O00ZPZpZ0ZZ0ZPZ0Z0 ZKZRZ0S0PZ0ZBZ0ZZ0s0Z0O0 Z0JRZ0S0 Kasparov resigned.

21. b2×c3 24 Game 24: This looks very ambitious. Kasparov doesn’t look worried, but very very sceptical. Could this Lion, Dec 31, 1990 be right? Can Karpov really play such an struc- ture? There are someN details which support this Kasparov-Karpov idea. Control of d4, f6 has to go to either e8 Reti or g8, and e4 is weakened. N N N 1. g1–f3 g8–f6 21. N ... f6–g8 2. c2–c4 e7–e6 22. f2–g4 c7–c5 N 3. b1–c3 This puts Karpov in a dilemma: he can hardly Kasparov’s choice of opening came as a sur- afford to lose access to d4, but 23. d×c5 e.p., prise to everybody, and probably to Karpov as b×c6 opens up for a Black attack.B well. B 23. d5×c6 d7×c6 3. Q ... f8–b4 24. h2–h4 4. d1–c2B 0–0 5. a2–a3 b4×c3 Time after W 24th: AK: 1:40 GK: 1:40. Q 6. c2×c3 GM Henley just suggestedB 24. ..., d5;N 25. It looks like that Kasparov wants to repeat c5,Q b6; 26.B h5, b×c5; 27. h6, Be5; 28. ×e5, his tactics from the 24th and last game in the ×e5; 29. ×c5 threatening d4. Sevilla match in 1987. Kasparov then needed to 24. ... d6–d5 win the final game to keep his title, and there- fore settled for a slow and very long game. And That’s a man(!) who just needs a draw. B Kasparov needs to win this game to keep his 25. c4×d5 c6×d5? Q R newly defended title nicely polished. 26. d2×d5 a8–c8 B 6. ... b7–b6 ROn 27. d4B KasparovQ might considerK Q 27. ..., 7. b2–b4 ×c3+ 28. ×c3, a3+; 29. b1, ×c3. Alburt says: “A very normal move.” “Do you understand? Nobody understands!” 7. ... d7–d6 said French GMQ Olivier Renet. R In Sweden last year, at the Haningen tour- 27. Kd5–d6 Qc8×c3+ nament, Karpov played a similar opening with 28. Bc1–b1 e7–f7 Black against VanB der Wiel. 29. e3–d4 8. c1–b2

46 13. e2–e4 rmbl0skZ A major decision which might explain why Kasparov took full 27 minute to do it. 0o0opm0Zo0o0Zpop 13. ... a7–a6 A useful waiting move. It prevents a White Z0Z0Z0Z0 b4-b5 followed by a3-a4-a5, since now Black can close the Q-side with a6-a5. Kasparov is work- 0OPZ0Z0Z ing hard now. He has to look out for a Black O0L0ZNZ0 b6-b5, and also, at the moment Karpov seems better developed with his rooks on c8 and e8, 0A0OPOPO so a Black break with d6-d5 might turn out well for Karpov. The few experts who are interested S0Z0JBZR in the game - and not already celebrating New Years eve - seems to think that Kasparov’s ad- Alburt says: “According to theory this is vantage has diminished,Q if it ever has existed. slightly better for White.” Kasparov has chosen 14. c3–b3 an ambitious set-up, considering that he only needs a draw. He gambles with a lot of money. 200.000 dollars is the difference between a lost and a drawn game for Kasparov today. This is maybe the most expensive game in the whole chess-history right now. B 0ZrlrZkZ 8. ... c8–b7 9.B g2–g3 c7–c5 ZbZnZpop 10. f1–g2 po0opm0Z Time after W 10th: GK: 0:28 AK: 0:45. Black has to be careful not to end up in a Z0o0Z0Z0 position where he’ll regret that he parted with his bishop. N 0OPZPZ0Z 10. ... Rb8–d7 OQZPZNO0 11. 0–0 a8–c8 A game Drasko - Arnason continued: 12.d3. 0A0Z0OBO Black won in 38, but that’s just what IGM Ar- nason was surposed to do. Alburt thinks that S0Z0ZRJ0 it’s still a very elastic position. And Kasparov now has to choose which structure to base his game on. One with d2-d4? Or one with the slower d2-d3 and e2-e3. If Kasparov wants to repeat his strategy from Designed to pull the teeths out of both b6-b5 the 24th game in Seville 87, then now 12.d3 is and d6-d5. the move to secure a long battle. By the way, 14. ... b6–b5 many think that an adjournement isn’t impos- sible at all. Looks like Karpov is giving up the ball now. 12. d2–d3 Kasparov repliedN immediately. R One plan for White here is to play e2-e4, 15. f3–d2 c8–b8 preferably to provoke a Black e6-e5, so to make use of the f5-square with Nh4, as suggested by Alburt thinks that: “This is a very complex Alburt. R position to play, expecially at such high stakes. 12. ... f8–e8 I don’t think that this was the best line for Kas- In the before mentioned game Drasko - Arna- parov to play if heR just wants to makeB a draw.” son Black played 12. ..., d5, so maybe this is 16. Q f1–c1 b7–a8 unknown territory. 17. b3–d1

47 23. g3–g4 This stops Black’s immediate access to the bs0lrZkZ black squares on the king-side but as Spassky stated: “ 23.g4?! That’s not serious business”.B Z0ZnZpop What Spassky consideredN K rightQ was : 23. a3 pZ0opm0Z h×g3 24.h×g3 h5 25. h2 g5 with great complications mountaining up. Alburt says: “I Zpo0Z0Z0 don’t like White’s position - it’s obvious that Karpov is better”. 0OPZPZ0Z 23. ... c5–c4? S0SQZ0J00A0M0OBOO0ZPZ0O0 24.Z0Znlpo0bs0ZrZkZ d3×c4 Not a pawn-sacrifice sinceN after:R 17. ..., 0Z0Z0m0Z Bc×b4; 18. a×b4, b×c4; 19. ×c4, ×b4; 20. a3 White will win the pawn back on d6, with ZpZ0o0Z0 a fat interest. Q 17. ... d8–e7 PZPZPZPo Still regrouping. ZNZ0ZPZ0 18.N c4×b5 a6×b5 19. d2–b3 e6–e5 0A0Z0ZBO Now KasparovN might consider moving his knight like b3-d2-f1-e3-f5. A nice plan, but S0SQZ0J0 it’s unlikely that Karpov will sit on his hands for so long. Both Kasparov and Karpov appears to Kasparov virtually jumped back on stage be deeply concentrated. A mutualN adjustmentN when he saw Karpov play 23. ..., c4. ofN the positionN mightN now be 20. d2, f8; 24. B ... b5×a4 21. f1, e6; 22. e3. But in general Black has 25. b2–a3!R N B to be careful not to openB up the center in a way RMuch better than 25. ×a4?, c5; 26. a3, which will bring life to b2. ×b3! and Black comes out on top.Q 20. f2–f3 25. N ... e7–d8 “Looks a bit strange” says Alburt. 20. f3 26. b3–c5 do strenghten White center, but it looks very Alburt says: “Probably Black is still slightly “slow”. better, and probably White now can hold the 20. ... h7–h5 position. 23. ..., c4 might have been prema- An aggressive move? Only a little. White ture, since it simplifies the positionB to early.” nearly is obliged to answer with 21.h4, after 26. ...Q Ra8–c6Q which Black will have to choose between a blitz- NoQ points for 26. ..., b6?; 27. ab1, a7; attack based on g7-g5 (not Karpov’s style)N and 28. ×a4 and White has solved two problems a positional structure based on g7-g6 and d7- simultaneously, the a4-pawn and the on the f8-e6. knight. N N 21. b4×c5 d6×c5 27. c5×a4 f6–h7N 22. a3–a4 KarpovQ obviouslyN toys with the theme: g5 So that was Kasparov’s plan with f2-f3. + h3 + b6 + ×e4. Kasparov might have 22. ... h5–h4 to play h2-h3 sooner or later, which will leave “A complex struggle” according to Alburt. Black withN clear compensation for the pawn af- Black has real chances to exploy the black ter a h7-g5-e6-f4. Alburt thinks that Kar- squares around White king, but if Karpov pov’s pawn-sacrificeN was a “bluff”.N doesn’t break through, then he might end up 28. a4–c5 Q R h7–g5Q with a positionally bad, maybe even lost, posi- AndB not:Q 28.B...,Q b6 29. cb1, a7; tion. 30. b4, b6; 31. a3, a7 and draw!

48 N B 29. Rc5×d7 c6×d7 30. c1–c3 Alburt still thinks that the game should be a draw. He predicts that GK will offer a draw in the 38th or 39th move, if he has a slightly better position. Q 30. R ... Bd8–a5 31. Qc3–d3 Qd7–a4 32. d1–e1 a5–a6 All agree that Kasparov is better. Alburt doesn’t think that White is winning, but he still believes that a draw will be agreed in a few moves. B N 33. Ra3–c1 Ng5–e6 34. Bd3–a3 e6–c5 35. c1–e3 White is winning - says Alburt. Q 35. ... a6–d6 Kasparov hasR a very pleasantQ choice between moves like 36. ×a4 or 36. ×h4 - if his wants to keep it simple.R 36.Z0m0o0Z00Z0l0Z0ZZ0Z0Zpo00s0ZrZkZa3×a4 S0Z0L0J00Z0Z0ZBOZ0Z0APZ0RZPZPZPo

Draw. No doubt that Kasparov is winning in the fi- nal position. The match for the 1990 World Championship title has ended with a win for at 21:53 New Year’s eve local time in Lyon. The final score of the match is: Kasparov 12.5 points - Karpov 11.5 points.

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