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Nigel Short vs Garry Kasparov
Kasparov vs Short (Blitz) (2015) (blitz), St Louis, MO USA, rd 8, Apr-26
Torre Attack: Fianchetto Defense (A48)  ·  0-1

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ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply)6.e3 was played in G Mohr vs P Enders, 1995 (1-0)better is 7...Bf5 8.e3 Nbd7 9.h3 c5 10.Be2 O-O 11.O-O Qb6 12.Nc4 = 0.00 (29 ply)better is 8.e4 Nd7 9.Bc4 e6 10.Nf1 b6 11.Ne3 Bb7 12.d5 Nxg3 ⩲ +0.57 (25 ply)better is 8...Bf5 9.Nb3 Nd7 10.Bd3 Bxd3 11.Qxd3 O-O 12.O-O Rc8 = -0.14 (23 ply)= +0.40 (19 ply)better is 10...O-O 11.a4 Nxg3 12.hxg3 a5 13.e4 b6 14.Nc4 Bb7 15.Re1 = -0.14 (22 ply)better is 11.e4 O-O 12.Qe2 Nxg3 13.hxg3 b6 14.Rfd1 Bb7 15.Nc4 Rad8 = +0.45 (19 ply)better is 11...O-O 12.h3 Nxg3 13.fxg3 b6 14.g4 Bb7 15.e4 c5 16.a5 = -0.06 (22 ply)better is 12.h3 Nxg3 13.fxg3 d5 14.c4 O-O 15.Qb3 c5 16.g4 Nf6 ⩲ +0.62 (21 ply)better is 12...Nxg3 13.fxg3 O-O 14.g4 Nf6 15.gxf5 exf5 16.Nc2 Nd5 = 0.00 (23 ply) 13.Qb3 Qf7 14.Bb5+ Kd8 15.Nef3 a6 16.Bd3 Rf8 17.e4 f4 ⩲ +0.53 (21 ply) ⩱ -1.10 (22 ply) 14...Bd7 15.Qe2 g4 16.e4 fxe4 17.Nxe4 O-O-O 18.a5 h5 ⩱ -0.94 (20 ply)better is 15.Nc2 Bd7 16.e4 d5 17.e5 Ne4 18.Qe1 Rac8 19.Be2 c5 = -0.18 (20 ply) 15...d5 16.exf5 exf5 17.Nc2 Ne4 18.Bxe4 fxe4 19.Ne3 c6 ⩱ -0.73 (21 ply) 16.Nc2 c4 17.Nxc4 fxe4 18.Be2 Bd7 19.N2e3 gxf4 20.gxf4 = +0.29 (20 ply) ⩱ -1.21 (20 ply) 21.Kg1 Ne4 22.Nc2 Bd7 23.Nc5 g4 24.Qe3 d4 25.Bc4+ Kh8 ⩱ -0.52 (21 ply) ∓ -2.44 (24 ply) 24.Ne3 Qh2+ 25.Kf1 gxf4 26.gxf4 Rae8 27.g3 Nxe3+ 28.Rxe3 ∓ -2.32 (27 ply)-+ -7.67 (22 ply)-+ mate-in-4 after 38.Kf2 Rh2+ 39.Kf1 Nd4+ 40.Ke1 Rxe2+ 41.Kd10-1

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Apr-26-15  ToTheDeath: Absolutely vicious beating to cap off the slaugh... i mean match. Kasparov really smelled blood after his win in the rapid game and didn't let up until the end. Poor Nigel will need counseling after this.
Apr-27-15  Pyke: Mate on the board ... Vicious!
Apr-27-15
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  Penguincw: Wow, mate on the board. Not often that a 2650+ player gets mated OTB. 38...Ne1# 0-1 also mates.
Apr-28-15  Conrad93: 15...c5 is brutal and very accurate.

Kasparov saw the entire combination starting with the queen check and leading to mate. He must have at least have analyzed it far enough to see that he is winning.

Very few players in the world can play this accurately under such time pressure.

Incredible!

Apr-28-15  SimplicityRichard: A very telling demonstration of Kasparov's genius!!#
Apr-29-15  maelith: Kasparov is still a monster at the chessboard.
Apr-29-15
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  Sally Simpson: This is best of the match (IMO)

I thought checkmate was the aim of the game.

Karpov, Kapsarov and even Carlsen have all been checkmated at blitz.

I don't think Kasparov would not have calculated it all from 15...c5. I'm sure that lad means intuition.

His 23rd move which looks like a total blunder and runs against the grain when playing blitz.

No undefended pieces and watch all checks.


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Gary played 23....Bd7! to open up the centre and see if he can tempt that Queen off holding g2.

But it does appear he missed a wee Queen & Knight shuggle about. (great attacking partners those two.)

Here.


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Instead of 26...Rad8 which is good and was planned when he sacked the pawn and Bishop.

How about 28...Qxg3 29.Re2 Qh4 and that looks like it's all over.

Yes I know my Nezhmetdinov 'He who analyses blitz chess is stupid.'

But he said that BK. (Before Kasparov) so little piece of stupidity every now and then is allowed.

Nov-21-15  PJs Studio: Would a match between Kasparov and Carlsen be of interest to anyone? Would it be all Carlsen?

1. I'm inclined to think Kasparov wouldn't get crushed, and 2. the world would pay BIG money to see it. (I'm sure of #2 ;)

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