·.clIESS .. · " . ()RLD CHAMPIONSHIP 28th move allows Kasparov to conjure up ~hallenger. Garri ~aspa~ov, the decisive kingside assault. · · m . a remarkable interview Wwith the West · German QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED magazine Der Spiegel, has · launched a G KASPAROV _ R HUBNER • .stinging attack on Soviet chess official• I: d4 . Nf6 . dom. Over, several pages Kasparov 2. c4 e6 speaks angrily about the political 3. Nf3 d5 manoeuvrings that led; to the annulment 4. Nc3 Be7 · of his clash with Anatoly Karpov earlier 5. Bg5 . 0-0 this year. He accuses the Soviet Federa• 6. Qc2 Ne4 tion of favouritism and of scheming with 7. BXe7 QXe7 · Fide (World Chess Federation) officials to 8. e3 . call off the world title contest at Karpov' s 8. Nxe4 dXe4 9. Qxe4 Qb4 ch is a insistence. He also protests at the choice standard method whereby Black recpoers his of venue for the rematch starting on' pawn. ' September 2. In spite of generous bids . 8 ...• · . NXc3 from London and Marseilles, Fide presi• 9. QXc3 b6 dent Florencio Campomanes has an• 10. cXd5 eXd5 nounced that Mdscow- Karpov's home 11.b4 c6 12. Rel town c._ will host the contest again . -Bb7 . Kasparov's request to compromise with 13. Bd3 Nd7 14. Leningrad was evidently ignored. Rbl Qd8 Speaking one's mind is not a practice This move was unfairly criticised by some. encouraged · by the Orwellian USSR commentators, who recommended 14 .... a5 immediately. But they · missed 15. bXa5 Chess F ederation, In the . past Soviet RXa5 16. l?Xb6! winning a pawn. · players have been censured even for 15. 0-0 a5 ·· mildly . outspoken interviews abroad. 16. a3 aXb4 · When _a journalist published comments 17. aXb4 g6 - made privately by Viktor Korchnoi in 18. Nd2 Qe7 . Holland in 1976, the Soviet grandmaster 19. e4 dXe4 defected .rather than return home and 20. BXe4 Rac8 face . the consequences. B~t Kasparov, 21. Rfel Qd8 . only 22, is idolised by.players and public 22. Nc4 Nf6 23. Bf3 ~· Nd5 · · . alike and apparently is not without 24. Qd2 Ba6 friends.in high places. At one stage in the 25. Ne5 Bb5 · article he says: "Karpov' s people in the 26. Reel Qd6 · chess federation still seem to hold all the . 27. h4 Rfd8 trumps in their hand, but appearances 28. h5 Ne7?! are deceptive." He goes on to say that his Missing a finesse. Better was 28. ... Rc7. main· concern is to save the qematch. 29. Rel! • u After »n. one can 'beat him even in Exposing the knight retreat as a waste of · · . .Moscow, That is indeed difficult, but it time. If Black captures with 29. ... Qxd4 - cart be done. The· thing is to actually play then 30. Qh6 (threatening Nx/7!) is strong. against him. You can't win against a 29. ' Rc7 / · ghost,". · 30. Bg4 Nd5 31. hXg6 hXg6 , ·: Indeed little has -been seen or heard of 32. Rb3 f5 the. ghost in question, . 34-year-old 33. Bdl Rg7 kirpov, after the world champion 34. Rh3 Q><b4 ··. abruptly withdrew from the . super• tournament in Linares, Spain. Soviet ex- · world title-holder Boris Spassky, now . resident in France, believes that Karpov .· has been genuinely shocked by, the way things 'have developed. "Karpov experi- enced irreparable bad luck _:, but it was all his own fault." Spassky implies that . when the fatigued Karpov requested termination of the Moscow match (which he was leading 5-3) he had not expected _ Campomanes to order a rematch. It is · rumoured that Karpov i.5 nevertheless . currently preparing in private with his 35. Qh6! usual ·· team· of . advisers. Meanwhile . A rook sacrifice to finiih it off. The Black . · Kasparov, in some very public training, _. king is hopelessly exposed. has beaten Swedish ace Ulf Andersson 4- 35. • . • ·· "QXel ch . 2 in a six-game match in Belgrade. 36. Kh2 Kf8 . Combined with his 4½-1 ½ victory over 37. NXg6 ch Kg8{ · "West German Robert, 'Hubner shortly 38;_ Qh8 ch Kf7 '' qxd8 · · . before that, Kasparov certainly seems to 39. Resigns .. ,haye. benefited from six months of play- Not waiting for .39. _,. RXg6 J3!l · .. , KXg6 40. Bh5 c,h Kh741. B/7 mate) 40. R~7 ing Karpov. • · · · ' . .. - ch. Ke6 (40. .. : Rg7 41. BhS·ch Ke6 42. Rh6 .,, · "Here is game two from Hamburg in ch-and mates) 41.. Qd7,ch Kf6 42; Qf7 ch Kg5 _ , · which Hubner begins subtly, But-a faulty .. 43. Rh5 ch Kf4 44. Qxf5 checkmate. • ·. • ... ' .