| Dec-17-02 |
| skakmiv: 11.. Ke7 seems a little bit odd to me. |
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Dec-17-02
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| refutor: that's the genius of it...at the time 11. ... Ke7! was received as a revelation. in new in chess (1996#1) karpov comments "I remember with what astonishment players greeted my game with Kamsky at Dortmund 1993, where after 11.Qh4 came the suprising 11. ... Ke7! Since then there has been little in the way of developments in that direction." |
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| Dec-17-02 |
| skakmiv: Is Ke7 something Karpov have prepared or? |
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| Dec-15-03 |
| rochade18: The white queen's in danger after Ke7: Let Black just play g5 and white seems to lose material. |
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| Dec-31-03 |
| Eatfatty: Any ideas on why kamsky plays 3. Nd2 instead of the usual 3. Nc3? I know it transposes one move later, but does that move give white any flexibility in the event Black doesn't take on e4? |
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Dec-31-03
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| refutor: it does give some flexibility. the only other real move you can play in this position is 3. ...g6. in the 3.Nd2 line you can play an eventual c3 and really block up the long diagonal compared to 3.Nc3 g6. as a caro-kann player a few years ago i tried to "refute" 3.Nd2 just because it didn't look right :) needless to say i didn't find one |
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| Dec-31-03 |
| PinkPanther: <11.. Ke7 seems a little bit odd to me.> The point of 11..Ke7 is to play 12..g5 which wins a piece after the queen moves to h3. Moving the King indirectly defends the rook on h8. |
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| Apr-23-04 |
| Lawrence: Jon Edwards annotates this game at http://www.queensac.com/chessblog/b... |
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| Apr-24-04 |
| Lawrence: 11...Ke7 was a move that Karpov had thought up for a game against Kasparov 5 years earlier in Amsterdam. Hiarcs 9 and Chess Tiger 14 find it instantly but after a few minutes decide that 11...Kd7 is better. Junior 8 prefers 11...Bd7 (or ...a5 or ...a6) while Fritz 8 likes 11...Rg8. By move 30 they were both in time trouble and Kamsky offered a draw, refused by Tolya...who then went on to make a ghastly blunder, 37...Bd7? (Rh2), which should have cost him the game but Gata was in so much time pressure that he didn't see it and made a counter-blunder, 38.Bg6? (Kc1! eval +3.19). By move 43, as Jon Edwards says, "Black's connected passers decide the game." |
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Apr-24-04
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| acirce: 17. Qh3! is regarded as much better than Kamsky's move which shuts his queen out of the game. |
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| Oct-29-04 |
| I sacrifice like Tal: Long live Karpov! |
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| Jul-17-05 |
| aw1988: Ke7 is one of those moves that looks good afterwards but one that you need great courage to play. |
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Jul-17-05
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| who: <Lawrence> 38.Kc1 is fantastic! Thanks for pointing it out. |
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Jul-17-05
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| OhioChessFan: Kc1. What an incredible attacking move. Black would have resigned on the spot. |
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| Jul-17-05 |
| aw1988: What is so special about Kc1? White merely activates his king in the endgame. |
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Jul-17-05
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| OhioChessFan: White attacks the rook. White stops 38....Bxf5+. White threatens Rd1 and pins the bishop. That's a lot more than merely activating the king. There is no endgame after that move. And if it still seems obvious to you, I admit that a quiet move with such force strikes me as exciting. Karpov missed it too, so I don't mind not having seen it. |
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Jul-18-05
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| who: Most importantly white either wins the black bishop with a pin or promotes his passed pawn. |
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Jul-18-05
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| who: black's rook is overburdened with needing to cover both the h file and the d file. |
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Jul-18-05
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| who: Fritz gives 38.Kc1 Rd4 39.Be4 Rxc4+ 40.Kd2 (+1.72) |
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| Dec-06-05 |
| sitzkrieg: Karpov gives 38. Kc1 Rd4 39.Bd7 Rc4ch 40.Kb1 Rh4 41. Rd1 Rh6 with (much?!) better game for white. |
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| Dec-06-05 |
| sitzkrieg: Apparently white is better before the blunder |
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| Apr-04-06 |
| AlexandraThess: Long life King Karpov! |
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| May-27-07 |
| Manic: I heard that Karpov's 11...Ke7 was thought up by his second. Can't remember who it was though.. |
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Nov-03-09
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| HeMateMe: Terrific game. I wonder if Kamsky was prepared for Karpov's 11....Ke7, if he worked on it at home anaylysis? It must be unnerving when your opponent attacks with his King on move 11! |
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