| Oct-02-03 | | pogo5: Superb manoeuvring and a delightful flowing sequence in the end. Though Garry missed the faster and beautiful 49...hxg5 with 50.Qh5# being essentially unavoidable (49...hxg5 50.Kxg5 Qh5+ 51.Kf4 Qf5# ; 49...hxg5 50.Qd4+ f6 51.Rb7+ Kh6 and the lethal threat remains). |
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| Oct-02-03 | | drukenknight: It seems that white goofed up before that. it seems that 44 Qd4+ would certainly be a prepatory move before all this checking starts. |
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| Oct-03-03 | | pogo5: Say, dk, I do not see how 44.Qd4+ Kh7 can help white's game. If you have specific variations sustaining your claim, please provide them ; if not, why do you talk?? |
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| Oct-03-03 | | drukenknight: I guess you are not from a free country. |
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| Oct-03-03 | | NiceMove: I bet he starting seeing the winning point at Qe5. Which leaves the rook undefended for a winning attack.
Black position is superior to white's, the white knight is useless since it has to defend against the pawn, and an great finish. |
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| Oct-03-03 | | drukenknight: after44.Qd4+ Kh7 45 Qxc3:
SHOW ME YOUR WINNING LINE |
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| Oct-03-03 | | ughaibu: How about 45..... Qf3 46.Kg1 Qg3 47.Kf1 Rc7 followed by things like Qf3 or Ne4? |
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| Oct-04-03 | | dalilama: dk, what about 45.....Qxf3+ then there are several combos from there... |
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| Oct-04-03 | | dalilama: to add to ughaibu, I think it would go more like....45...Qxf3+ 46 Kg1 Nh3+ 47 Kh2 Nf2 then if white plays 48 Kg1 (to avoid mate) ..Qxg3+ 49 Kf1 Ne4 (forking the queen and the mate on f2) then if white plays 50 Qe1...then it gets ugly... |
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| Oct-04-03 | | drukenknight: hell, what time in the morning was it when I wrote that nonsense? |
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| Feb-12-05 | | Ernesto7: the best game i've seen this year....WOW |
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| Feb-12-05 | | aw1988: I would play 7...Ne4, just to be annoying :P |
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| Feb-06-06 | | mehul: This is an exceptional game. There's a bunch of fine moves like 14...Kf8 (Who would have thought of that as a way of unpinning?) and 19...c4 (a shade of Bernstein-Capablanca 1914.). The final combination...beginning with 42...Qf5 is fourteen moves deep! And garry must have sensed it 5-6 moves earlier. And all moves the moves in the combination are forced. Amazing stuff. Miss this guy's chess. |
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| Apr-28-08 | | deadlysin: 19...a4 was better (approved by kasparov himself)
could be a puzzle
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| Nov-05-08 | | KingG: <aw1988> 7...Ne4 is known as Lasker's defence, and is really a drawing weapon for Black. 7...b6 is the Tartakower-Makagonov-Bondarevsky variation, and gives Black slightly more winning chances. <Though Garry missed the faster and beautiful 49...hxg5 with 50.Qh5# being essentially unavoidable> I'm not sure if Kasparov missed this, or just wanted to play out his pretty pawn promotion sequence. |
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| Dec-09-10 | | libertyjack: Wonderful game! |
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| Jun-12-14 | | offramp: White has just played 43.♙f2-f3 to prevent ...♕f5:f2+.
click for larger viewKasparov plays 43...♘e4-g5! This uncovers an attack on the white♘c2.
It also threatens ...♕f5xf3+ with devastation. So white has to take the knight. White's king is harrassed around to 47.♔g2-h3.
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Black has to watch out for both 48.Qxh7 and the more drastic 48.Qf6+ and #! Kasparov plays 47...♕e2:f3!. White takes the ♖a7. Black checks the white king around with the unusual aim of swapping queens. He has had a great idea: a finish similar to M Ortueta vs J Sanz, 1933 (or Tylkowski vs A Wojciechowski, 1931). 
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54...Qxa7+ 55.Kxa7 c2!
The pawn cannot be stopped! Incredible! |
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| Jan-13-15 | | Poisonpawns: This game is unbelievable |
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Jan-13-15
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| Jan-14-15 | | tonsillolith: I noticed that many of Black's moves in this game were primarily defending his pieces, or another type of prophylaxis. That certainly makes a statement about high-level positional play. |
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| Jul-16-15 | | rookpawn101: Certainly a beautiful game |
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| Aug-09-15 | | ToTheDeath: Remarkable calculation, giving up a rook to force a queen exchange and a winning pawn promotion. Of course it was made easier by the fact that it was all "only" moves for White, with the only small diverting branch 53.Kc5 Qxe3+ 54.Rd4 c2 winning. Still it took real vision to see this from so far off. The game continuation was in some ways prettier than the forced mate pointed out above. |
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| May-11-21 | | SChesshevsky: Been awhile since comments on this Kasparov blockbuster. The end was flashy genius but I especially was impressed how he coordinated his pieces around move 23... and on. Especially as Winants might've felt pretty good about then. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 47...Qxf3