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| Aug-22-08 | | ToTheDeath: This is a model game on how to play against an isolated Queen pawn, and how to play for a win with Black. <10...Nf6> Prophylactic play preventing 11.Qe4 followed by Qh4 and Bg5 with kingside initiative. <12...Qb6!> Getting the queen off the back rank and preparing to connect the rooks. Of course Karpov doesn't play 12... Nxd4? 13. Nxd4 Qxd4 14.Bc3 with a big initiative for White. <13...Bd7> Taking on b2 would lose the queen to 14.Rfb1. <14...Rfd8> Karpov decides to put his queen's rook on d8, keeping his other rook on f8 in case of Ne5 and Ng5 with threats to f7. <17...Ne7!!> Again 17...Qxb2? 18.Rfb1 Qc3 19.Bd2 would lose the queen. Karpov sidesteps the threat of 18.d5 and prepares Nf5. If now 18.d5 Qxb2! is a safe capture- Black win two rooks for the Queen. <19...Qa6!> 19...Qc7 20.Bf4 and 19...Qc6 20.Na5 were considerably weaker. Karpov is unafraid of 20.Ne5 Bb5! with Black in charge of the light squares. <21...Bd5> Now the problem piece for Black in so many queen's pawn games has achieved an ideal post for attack and defence.> <22...Qb6> Black is prepared for 23.g4 g5! winning the queen. <30...Re4!> White has to meet the threat of ...Rg4. <31...b5!> preventing any activity for White's a1 rook. <33...h6> a simple patient move making luft in the event of a back rank check. <35...Rc6> Provoking 36.d5 Rc8 37. Rdc1 b3 38.Rd2 Be5, where White is under heavy pressure. <38...Bxc6> here again 39.d5 Ba8 40. b3 Be5 is in Black's favour. <39...Bf8!> Preventing any counterplay with Rb4. <40...Qe6> A time pressure move, 40...Qd5 41.Ne5 Rxe5 42.Rxc6 Rxe3 wins faster. Black had to avoid 40...Rg4? 41.Ne5! Rxg3 42. Nxd7 Rxg2+ 43.Kh1! when Black has too much hanging. <43...Bd6!> Not 43...Qa6? 44.Bc5 defending. Now if 44.f4 Qd7! 45.Bd4 (45.Be3 Bxd3 46.Qxd3 Bxf4+ wins) Bxd3 46.Qxd3 Bxf4+ 47. g3 Be5 winning. <44...Qe5> Now 45.Be3 Qxb2 46.a6 Qc3 and only Black's pawn is promoting. <45...Qe7> The concluding stroke- the bishop on a7 is lost. Terrific game by Karpov.
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| Mar-12-09 | | soumen08: I am trying to understand... why play 10...Be7? |
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| Mar-24-09 | | notyetagm: <ToTheDeath: This is a model game on how to play against an isolated Queen pawn, and how to play for a win with Black.> Outstanding annotations. |
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| Apr-21-09 | | ToTheDeath: <notyetagm> Thanks! |
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| Mar-03-11 | | Bryan14: Why not 43. Qa6 ? winning a minor peace no ? |
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Mar-03-11
 | | Sastre: If 43....Qa6, then 44.Bc5 Bg7 45.Nxb4 Qxa5 46.Bd6 keeps White in the game. |
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| Jan-06-13 | | kudubux: My favorite game of the match. Normally, the c8-Bishop is a problem piece in this type of setup but Karpov skillfully frees the Bishop and puts it in the best square and diagonal! Notice the g2-pawn being hounded up to no end. |
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Jan-24-13
 | | Jonathan Sarfati: A superb example of playing against the I♕♙. A lot of books preach blockading this ♙ with a ♘ in front. But in reality, the I♕♙ can easily work around this and build up a devastating attack. Karpov just controls the blockading square without occupying it, and instead uses his ♘ to attack the ♙. But this game played in the year Karpov was born had a similar strategy Euwe vs Najdorf, 1951 |
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| Oct-08-14 | | SpiritedReposte: <Paul123's> comment from Dec 05 was exactly what I was thinking. Seems any game of Karpov's where there is an isolated queen pawn, he wins, whatever side he is on. |
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| Nov-26-14 | | Hesam7: After 15 Nf6?! White has no advantage. The second mistake seems to have been 17 Be3?! after which Black is slightly better. 18 Ne5?! is the third mistake: 
click for larger viewBlack's position is nearly winning: the weak IQP, White's abandoned Q-side and Black's superior minor pieces. |
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| May-21-16 | | thegoodanarchist: Not sure what's wrong with 43.Ne5 followed by f4 if need be. |
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| May-12-20 | | joddon: Kamsky pushes his knight around a lot, trying to maybe run a trap or pull a fork, usually a player like Karpov will not fall into a knight trap early, maybe after 60 oves quite possible.....I think Kamsky wasted a lot of tempo, and moves that might have gained some sort of positional advantage by moving his knight several several times......in the end his own knight gave him trouble have located itself on a WRONG SQUARE!! |
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| Dec-27-20 | | fisayo123: This is one of the greatest demonstrations of playing against the isolated pawn I've ever seen. Gata got totally bamboozled. |
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Nov-26-22
 | | kingscrusher: <ToTheDeath> Wow great stuff and insights - many thanks :) |
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Apr-01-24
 | | HeMateMe: Love the pun. all the heavy kk games are great. |
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Apr-01-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: The position for Black looked a little difficult from moves 15-25, although the silicon monsters think Karpov was never in trouble. 42...Bxe4 set a nice trap. |
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Apr-01-24
 | | al wazir: 44. f4 looks drawish: 44...Bxd3 45. Qxd3 Bxf4+ (45...Qe7 46. Bf2 Bxf4+ 47. Kg1) 46. g3 Qe7 47. gxf4 (47. Bf2 Qxh4+) Qxa7 48. Qd5. |
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Apr-01-24
 | | beatgiant: <al wazir> On 44. f4, Black has <44...Qd7> both attacking the bishop on a7 and hitting d3 (e.g. 44. f4 Qd7 45. Bb6 Bxd3 46. Qxd3? Bxf4+ with discovered attack on the queen). |
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Apr-01-24
 | | Teyss: Is this an April's fool treat? Missy missed an opportunity to make an amusing game GOTD, as every year: A J Love vs K Jensen, 1979 (kibitz #10). The game proposed is similar to this one: J Hohmeister vs T Frank, 1993 so it's not like there's no choice. That one would have been fun too: Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2021
As for the pun, yeah, wow, Gata something, it's not even new: Kamsky vs Kramnik, 1994.
As well as:
Kramnik vs Kamsky, 1994
Kamsky vs Karpov, 1996
Kamsky vs K Georgiev, 2007
Leko vs Kamsky, 2008
Jobava vs Kamsky, 2012
It <could> have fitted the game if it had been the last decisive one of the match, which in this case is not possible, as opposed to that one for instance: Kamsky vs Anand, 1994. Last game of the match, decisive, short, brutal: maybe someone will submit "Gata Rush". Good game though, very Karpovian. |
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Apr-01-24
| | HeMateMe: Karpov nearly destroyed Kasparov in 1984, playing against the ISO qp as black. Kasparov had to stop using the opening in the WC match. |
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Apr-01-24
 | | MissScarlett: <Is this an April's fool treat?> Just my way of announcing that I'm leaving the site forthwith. |
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Apr-01-24
 | | Fusilli: <Teyss> <Good game though, very Karpovian.> Indeed. |
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Apr-01-24
 | | Korora: And so, even though White can wriggle out of the pin on the ♕, that's still a critical tempo gained by Black; when the dust settles Black will be up by a piece and a ♙--and still have the ♗ pair as well. |
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| Apr-01-24 | | areknames: <Just my way of announcing that I'm leaving the site forthwith> Seriously? Let's hope that's not the case. |
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| Apr-12-24 | | Mathematicar: Keep it simple and the full point is yours. |
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