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| Jul-25-03 | | drukenknight: Two more endgames from the 1978 world champ. match. This was game 28 that allowed Korchnoi to get his 4th win and make the score 5-4. At this pt. in the match it seems that Korchnoi was deliberately trying for quiet very balanced positions in order to adjourn and study the end game. It turned out to be a good strategy since he won games 28, 29 and 31 in this way and managed to make the score 5-5 before the last game. 42...c5 was the sealed move played just before adjournment, Korchnoi spent 38 minutes looking over it! I wonder what he was thinking. I think he was thinking 42...Rb2+ but the exchange of Rooks does not seem to lead anywhere. When Korchnoi does give check, Karpov moves the K; 44 Kg3 which seems to mess up the strategy. HIs K will be pulled too far away from where the queening action is going to be, on the a file or b file. So it seems that 44 RxR makes more sense. Keene thought white still had a chance for a draw, with 47 RxR pxR 48 exf7+ Kxf7 49 Kf5. Hmm maybe, funny that again the Rook exchange was called for. |
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Dec-03-04
 | | offramp: Kortschnoi really is one of the great endgame players of all time! |
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| Jan-23-06 | | mcgee: >>This was game 28 that allowed Korchnoi to get his 4th win and make the score 5-4.<< 5-3. Korchnoi made it 5-4 in the next game. |
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| Nov-17-06 | | thegoodanarchist: Since these guys weren't speaking, how did they resign? Did they just walk out? Tip the king? Stop the clock? Anyone know? |
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Nov-17-06
 | | keypusher: <goodanarchist> generally, they adjourned the game, even if it was absolutely hopeless, then resigned before resumption. Better than picking up the king and throwing it at the other man's head, I guess... |
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| Jan-06-07 | | talisman: 61....KB1 |
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| Mar-29-07 | | Brown: <talisman> if you're using descriptive notation, your move leaves the black king in check. Perhaps you meant 61...Kb8 in algebraic notation? |
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| Dec-19-07 | | The Rocket: Notice how often Karpov opened with e4 during the early part of his career, later in his matches against Kasparov he almost always opened with d4. This is is a good game by Korchnoi though I don`t think Karpov had reached his prime here.
For those that think that Karpov could not beat Fischer should look at the stats between players fischer has meet and Karpov. Karpov-korchnoi 34-17(69 draws), Fischer-korchnoi 3-3(4 draws), Karpov-Spassky 16-3(25 draws), fischer vs spassky- 17-10(28 draws). Also remember that according to kasparov Spassky played better against karpov than against Fischer!! |
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| Dec-19-07 | | slomarko: i disagree that Spassky played better against Karpov, he played like crap in both matches. |
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| Dec-19-07 | | Riverbeast: Korchnoi was superior to Karpov in the endgame in 1978. He outplayed him in several engames in this match. If you look at all the games in this match ,one could argue that Korchnoi was the more brilliant player but Karpov was just more consistent. Korchnoi lost 6-5, but his final loss was a joke (he played terribly and was lost in the opening) and several of his other losses were in time trouble, when he blew winning positions. But the games Korchnoi won in this match, he thoroughly outplayed Karpov. |
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| Jan-30-08 | | The Rocket: To answer slomarko, Spassky himself claimed he was at his best when facing karpov in the mid 70s(and also said karpov whas the toughest opponent he ever met), If you don`t agree with spassky who is a former world champion I guess you are not really sane! I think Spasskys analysis is a tad bit better than yours don`t you think? |
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| Jan-30-08 | | slomarko: Spassky has made a lot of stupid analysis in his life so yes i don't believe everything he says. btw go please check the game he lost in the match against Karpov where he played the king's indian. he played it so terribly its unwatchable really. |
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| Jan-30-08 | | whiteshark: <42...c5 was the sealed move> Incredible that Karpov blundered only two moves later. |
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| Apr-10-08 | | Knight13: <Brown> He wasn't using descriptive. I still think White should've played 35. Kt-B6. If Black goes 35...Kt-B4 then go back with Kt-Kt4. Wait nevermind 35...R-QB5 kills White. |
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| Apr-11-09 | | WhiteRook48: 61...Kd8 62 Rxa3 b2 63 Ra8+ Ke7 64 Re5+ Kf6 65 Re1 b1Q 66 Rxb1 Rxb1 where all white can hope for is that his two pawns can make headway against an entire rook |
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| Apr-09-10 | | thegoodanarchist: Korchnoi figured out early that he was superior to Karpov in endings. So he had a nice strategy of getting into endgames that had lots of "play" remaining, and then just outmaneuvering Karpov to win. Fischer thought Korchnoi would be a tough opponent for him, and said he did not understand Korchnoi's moves. Apparently, Fischer was not alone! Karpov was in the same boat. |
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| Feb-25-11 | | M.D. Wilson: Fischer not understanding Korchnoi was more to do with the former's uncertainty when it came to what openings to use. |
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Feb-25-11
 | | HeMateMe: <It turned out to be a good strategy since he won games 28, 29 and 31 in this way and managed to make the score 5-5 before the last game. > Maybe also, Karpov's frail physique and the Phillippines heat hurt his play toward the end. Unusual for a player like Karpov to lose 3 out of 4 games. Reminds me of the last two weeks of the aborted '84 match with Kasparov. Someone should have told Korchnoi that his thin adversary is getting the worse of it in a long match, just play your best openings and keep the match going, wait for some weak moves or outright blunders....alas, an unsound pirc was played. The USSR had Korchnoi's son Igor, in a labor camp, for refusing the madatory military service every young man there has to serve, after high school. Interesting, how many countries have that. England had it till the late 50s or early 60s. Switzerland and Israel still have compulsory 1-2 years military service after high school. I don't think the army in the USA would really want our high school kids. They must be quite happy with the all volunteer army. |
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| Feb-25-11 | | M.D. Wilson: Iron sharpens iron. |
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| Feb-25-11 | | Everett: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar... Seems many things sharpen iron. |
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| Mar-01-11 | | M.D. Wilson: Didn't Korchnoi criticize Karpov's endgame technique after their 1974 candidates match? He was less than generous about it, from memory. |
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| Mar-24-14 | | thegoodanarchist: <M.D. Wilson: Fischer not understanding Korchnoi was more to do with the former's uncertainty when it came to what openings to use.> No, this is not correct. Fischer said he didn't understand Korchnoi's <moves>. This was in reply to the question of which player would be more difficult to face in the WC match, Karpov or Korchnoi. |
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| Mar-24-14 | | Petrosianic: <The USSR had Korchnoi's son Igor, in a labor camp, for refusing the madatory military service every young man there has to serve, after high school.> I've heard that this charge was basically trumped up in this particular case. Of course Korchnoi could have gotten them out simply by refusing to play. The world would never have accepted Karpov by forfeit twice. They wouldn't have accepted him even once if Fischer had played outside of FIDE. |
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Mar-24-14
| | keypusher: <The USSR had Korchnoi's son Igor, in a labor camp, for refusing the madatory military service every young man there has to serve, after high school.> Not during this match. The next one. See below.
Phillips & Drew Kings (1982) |
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| May-18-14 | | thegoodanarchist: I already submitted a pun for this game, but I thought of a better one: "Ich bin eine Berliner" |
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