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- Impressions of a chess game
-
- A Garry Kasparov postmortem captured on disk
-
- We've all seen it happen -- Garry Kasparov analysing with his
- opponent after a game, the pieces flying accross the board. In
- the end the opponent gets up in a daze, wondering how he could
- have survived forty moves without seeing most of the variations
- just demonstrated.
-
- After the finals of the Intel Grand Prix in New York I had the
- unique opportunity of actually recording this kind of postmortem
- analysis by the World Champion. Garry had enthralled the audience
- with a brilliant, attacking game, only to let Kramnik escape with
- a draw. In the second game the missed opportunities were still
- playing heavily on his mind, and he was ground down by his rapid
- chess nemesis.
-
- That evening a dinner was on the agenda. As we met in Garry's
- suite in the Trump Plaza it was obvious that the lost match was
- still churning around in his system. "I had the game of the year
- on the board," he cried out in anguish, and switched on his
- laptop to show me where
- he had gone astray. While hungry friends glanced at their
- watches, Garry moused in variation after variation with lightning
- agility, starting new lines and sublines, entering evaluations,
- periodically glancing up at me with the mute questions: "Why
- didn't I do that, how could I let the chance go by?"
-
- In about half an hour the analysis was complete, and I did not
- forget to press Ctrl-S and save it all in ChessBase. "Can I use
- this material?" I asked. "Okay, but check it with Fritz and call
- it 'impressions'," he replied. Indeed, one must remember that
- this is not the result of weeks of painstaking research but
- spontaneous analysis immediately after the game.
-
- Back in Hamburg I ran the game through the new auto-analysis
- function of Fritz3. The program closed some holes and found a
- couple of interesting alternatives (all commentary by Fritz is
- given as "RR" variations in brackets).
-
- Frederic Friedel
-
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-
- Kasparov,G (2805) - Kramnik,V (1) (2710)
- New York PCA 25' (04) [Kasparov], 1994
-
- **1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6
- 8.Bh4 g5 9.Nxg5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 Nbd7 11.exf6 Bb7 12.g3 c5 13.d5 Qb6
- 14.Bg2 0-0-0 15.0-0 b4 16.Rb1! (Uhlmann) 16...Qa6 17.dxe6 Bxg2
- 18.e7 Bxf1 19.Qd5 Bxe7**
-
- [19...Bh6 20.exd8Q+ Kxd8 (Yermolinsky-Ivanchuk/Podolsk/1986/)]
-
- **20.fxe7 Rdg8 21.Ne4 Rg6 22.Rxf1?** This was played in the game.
-
-
- In his analysis Garry concentrates his attention on the missed
- opportunity arising after the moves: 22.Qa8+! Nb8
-
- A) 23.Bf4 Qb7 24.Qxb7+ Kxb7 25.Kxf1 Kc6 (25...Nd7 26.Rd1) 26.Rd1
- Nd7 (26...Re8 27.Bxb8 Rxb8 28.Rd8 Rg8 29.Rxg8 Rxg8 30.Nf6+-)
-
- A1) RR 27.Nd6! (Fritz3 finds a remarkable improvement to
- Kasparov's analysis.) 27...Re6 (27...Nf6 28.Nxf7 (with the idea
- Ne5) 28.Nxf7+- (idea Nd8);
-
- A2) 27.Rd6+ Rxd6 28.Nxd6 Nf6 29.Be5 Rg8 30.Nxf7 Nd5 unclear;
-
- B) 23.Rxf1 Qc6
-
- 23...Qb7 24.Qxb7+ Kxb7 25.Bf6+-) 24.Rd1!! Qxa8 25.Rd8+ Kc7
- (25...Kb7 26.Rxh8 Re6 27.Nxc5++-) 26.Bf4+ Kb6 27.Rxh8 Re6 28.e8Q
- Rxe8 29.Rxe8 Qd5 30.Rxb8+ Ka6 (30...Ka5 31.Re8 f5 32.Nxc5! Qd1+
- 33.Kg2 Qd5+ 34.Kh3+-
-
- B1) 31.Nd6 c3 32.bxc3 bxc3 33.Nb5 Qd1+ 34.Kg2 34...Qd5+ (34...c2
- 35.Nc7+ Ka5 36.Rb5+ Ka4 37.Rxc5+-) 35.f3 Qxa2+ 36.Kh3 Qe6+ 37.g4
- Qe2 unclear;
-
- B2) 31.f3 f5;
-
- B3) 31.Re8 f5 32.Re6+?+- Ka5 33.Bc7+ Kb5;
-
- B4) 31.Nd2! c3 32.bxc3 bxc3 33.Nb3 c4 34.Nc1
-
- B41) 34...Qd1+ 35.Kg2 Qd5+ 36.f3 Qf5 (RR 36...Qd2+! offers more
- resistance) 37.Re8 Qc2+ 38.Re2+-;
-
- B42) 34...c2 35.h4+-
-
- **22...Qc6 23.Qxc6+ Rxc6 24.Rd1?**
-
- 24.Bf4! Re8 25.Nd6+ Rxd6 26.Bxd6 Kb7 27.Re1 Kc6 28.Bf4 Nf6 29.h4
- Nd5 30.Bc1
-
- A) 30...Rxe7 31.Rxe7 Nxe7 32.h5 Kd5 33.h6 Ng6 34.h7 Ke4 35.Be3+-;
-
- B) 30...c3 31.bxc3 Nxc3 32.h5 Nxa2 33.Bg5 c4
-
- B1) 34.Rd1! (?RR) 34...b3 35.Rd8 b2 36.Rxe8 b1Q+ 37.Kh2 Qf5
- 38.Rd8 Qxf2+ 39.Kh3 Qf1+ 40.Kg4 Qe2+ (RR Here Garry misses a mate
- in two: 40...f5+! 41.Kh4 Qh1#) 41.Kf4 Qf2+ 42.Ke5 Qb2+ 43.Kf5
- Qf2+ 44.Bf4 Qc5+ 45.Kf6+-;
-
- B2) 34.h6 (RR Fritz3 gives the move an "!" - see variation B21
- below) 34...c3 35.h7
-
- B21) 35...c2 36.h8Q (RR 36.Bh6! After knocking a hole in the
- variation B1 Fritz3 now proceeds to repair it for White 36...Nc3
- 37.Bf8 Nd1 38.h8Q c1Q 39.Qf6+ Kb7 40.Qd6+-) 36...Rxh8 37.e8Q+
- Rxe8 38.Rxe8 unclear;
-
- B22) 35...b3 (Garry only gives this move, Fritz3 completes the
- variation) RR 36.Bf6 Kd7 37.h8Q Rxh8 38.Bxh8 Ke8 39.Kg2 c2 40.Bb2
- (idea Re3) 40...a5 41.Ba3+- (idea Rh1);
-
- C) 30...Kd7! 31.h5 Rxe7 32.Rd1 (32.Rxe7+? Kxe7=) 32...Kc6 33.h6
- f5 34.Kg2 c3 35.bxc3 Nxc3 36.Rh1 Rh7 37.Rh5 Nxa2 38.Be3 c4
- 39.Rxf5 c3 40.g4 b3 41.g5 b2 42.Rc5+ Kd6 43.Rb5+-
-
- **24...Re8 25.Nd6+**
-
- 25.h4 f6 26.Rd6 Kc7 27.Nxf6 (27.Bf4 Rxe7 28.Re6+ Kd8 29.Rxc6 Rxe4
- 30.h5 c3 31.bxc3 bxc3 32.h6 c2 33.h7 Re8 34.Re6 Rh8 35.Re2 Rxh7
- 36.Rxc2) 27...Nxf6 28.Rxc6+ Kxc6 29.Bxf6 Kd7 30.g4 Ke6 31.g5
- unclear.
-
- **25...Rxd6 26.Rxd6 f6 27.Bxf6**
-
- (27.Bf4! Rxe7 28.Kf1 and white has an advantage, since the white
- h-pawn is very dangerous)
-
- **27...Kc7 28.Re6 Nxf6 29.Rxf6 Rxe7 30.Kf1 Re4 31.Rf4 Rxf4
- 32.gxf4 Kd6
- 33.Ke2 a5 34.a4 c3 35.bxc3 b3 draw.**
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