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THE WEEKLY KNIGHT
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(for December 19, 1992)
Gari Kasparov has once again shown why he is the current
World Champion and highest rated player of all-time by
finishing first, ahead of 15 Grandmasters, in the recent
Immopar Rapid Chess tournament held in Paris.
In the "year of the knockout tournament", Immopar was,
perhaps, the "best of the best". Virtually all the top
players were present: 12 of the world's current highest rated
13 (Number 2 Ivanchuk was absent) along with 4 prominent
juniors in Michael Adams, the winner at Brussels and Tilburg,
two of this year's other impressive elimination events; Judit
Polgar, the 1992 Hungarian champion and world's youngest GM;
17 year old Vladimir Kramnik from Russia, who registered the
best individual score in the Manila Olympiad and is already
being touted in some circles as a possible successor to
Kasparov, and the 19 year French hopeful, Joel Lautier. Last
but certainly not least was the prize fund: more than one
million francs total (about $220,000 US), with $85,000 US
going to first and over $40,000 US to the runner-up.
Given the format of two game matches with each side having
only 25 minutes, followed by tiebreak games played at the
blitz pace of 6 minutes for White (who had to win or be
eliminated!) and 5 minutes for Black, upsets were inevitable.
In fact, in the first round with all 16 players
participating, underdogs (assuming a player rated 2650 can
ever be considered as such) won half of the matches. Both
remaining candidates who will playoff to determine a
challenger to Kasparov for the 1993 World Championship lost,
as Judit Polgar shutout(!) Timman 2-0, and the veteran, Lev
Polugaevsky, eliminated Short. In other matches, Karpov lost
to Bareev; Salov was eliminated by Yusupov; Shirov shutout
Gelfand; Anand got by Adams; Gata Kamsky won the "battle of
the benefactor" by defeating Lautier (both players are
sponsored by the Immopar Corporation) and the Russian
Olympiad team board one (Kasparov) defeated board two
(Kramnik).
There were three shutouts in the quarterfinals: Kamsky over
Polgar, Kasparov against Polugaevsky and Bareev versus
Yusupov. In the remaining match, Anand eliminated Shirov,
1.5-.5.
The final was between two of the quickest players to ever sit
down at the board, Gari Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand. The
former made it through the semis as a result of a win against
Kamsky (2-0) while the latter got passed Bareev (1.5-.5).
Although Anand was the only player to take a full point off
Gari, he lost the other three games in the final and had to
settle for the $40,000 second prize.
Those who remain unconvinced that Kasparov is playing at a
level above the rest of the competition should take a close
look at the following game in which he uses the black pieces
to easily demolish the eleventh ranked player in the world,
Gata Kamsky.
White: G.Kamsky Black: G.Kasparov King's Indian
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0
Nc6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Nd2 Ne8 10.Rb1 f5 11.b4 Nf6 12.f3 f4 13.c5 g5
14.Nc4 Ng6 15.a4 Rf7 16.Ba3 Bf8 17.a5 Rg7 18.b5 b6 19.cxd6
cxd6 20.Na2 g4 21.fxg4 Nh4 22.Rb3 Nxg4 23.Bf3 bxa5 24.Qd2 a4
25.Rc3 Bd7 26.Rb1 Rc8 27.Kh1 Nxh2 28.Kxh2 Rxc4 29.Rbc1 Nxf3+
30.Rxf3 Qh4+ 31.Kg1 Rxe4 32.Qf2 Qh5 33.Rc7 Re1+ 34.Qxe1 Qxf3
35.Qd2 Qg4 36.Nc3 f3 37.Rxa7 Qh3 0-1
Glenn Budzinski
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