FIGHTING CHESS My Games and Career Gary Kasparov Translated by Eric Schiller Career and Editing by Robert G Wade B.T.Batsford Ld, LondonFirst published 1983, OG Kasparov, R'G.Wade ISBN 07134 19849 imp) Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bididles Ltd, Guildford and King’sLyan fot the publishers BT.Batsford Lid, 4 Ftzhardinge Steet, London WIH OAH A BATSFORD CHESS BOOK Adviser: RG.Wade O.B.E. Contents Photograph: Luzern 1982 » Preface * Acknowledgements ° Bibliography oy Symbols a 1 Inthe Beginning H 2A Thirteen Year Old Abroad u 3 Age Fourteen: 1 21 2 Minsk 1978 2s 5 Top League! 0 6 Banja Luka - First Leg 8 3 £1un Championship 2 & Skara Teams Pa 9 Bakur= Second Leg s 10 union World Champion 56 HL Malta Olympia 12 Encounters with Karpow 3 13 Moscow Grandmasters 1 14 Gray Teams aa 1S Interpots at Titburg 92 le Gold! %6 17 Super at Bugojno 119 18 Becoming a Candidate 126 19 Ligern: Soviet Triomph bo. Opponents’ Index 1 Openings" Index 10 Photog 1. Young Gary p.19 2, With trainers Nikitin (2) and Shakharov () A the 46th. Championship p37" 3. At. Baku Tournament p.50 4. Junior World Champion 1.59. $. with Karpov, March 1981 9.69 6 What's Tal analysing? p28 1. Playing Belyavsky during the Interzanal p.129. 8 Playing Korchnoi with Belyavsky and Karpos anxiously looking on p.133, ‘easesPreface ihe SSR (world charnpion 1927-35, 37-45) Alekhine’. - Mikhail Botvinnik, world ‘Shampion 1948-57, 58-60, 61-63. Many regard his progres tothe world ttl a inevitable, But Ths book contains 32 games annotated by Gary Kasparov Kas-PAvrov), | annotated by Mikhail Bot Erie Schiller, 2 jointly by Gary and Er chosen by the editor ~total 64 games and 5p tp from 36 page booklet Rastu in the Palace of Chessplayers) sued by the Palace honouring, Yur Gagarin (astronaut - ed) for Young Pioneer of Baku on January 20 1981 Detail of Gary's enreer and the background to his games have been Kasparov holds the gre on January Ist 1983 he has Robert G. Wade Acknowledgements The author and editor gratefully acknowledge the help received in producing this bok. This includes hanks to EvicSchiller and Raymond Keene for liaison with Gary, t0 B-T-Batsford Lid, for liaison with VAAP, ta the Soviet twice-monthly "64" and Frits Agterdenby for photographs, to Jon Speciman for additional translation, Fifield Jnr for cover design to Hilary Thomas for typesetting, advice on layout and design and corrections at manuscript and proof stages, 10 Leslie Smart for checking pars of the manuscript to Paul Lamford for internal liaison to Richard Sams for proofreading and o David Spanier for providing text for interview of Gary publihed in Spiegel Buch in 98Bibliography The editor acknowledges the wsefulness of source material from the Soviet ‘chess periodicals Shakmary” ay USSR, Shokmaty (Rigs, ShoSmarny Buen, Shakhomaty (Bake), 86 and Bulleten Tvenralnoge ‘Shakhmarnogo Kluba USSR. Irom the British Chess Maine, Deutsche Schachblanier, Schaakbulfetnen, {rom the twvice-yeatiy Chess Injormator, Irom various tournament bulletins and rom the 198 Tilburg tournament hook Symbols . heck 5 Slight advantage Clear advantage ‘Winning advantage - Level postion @ Uncle position ' Good move t Outstanding move " Interesting move ” Dubious move : Weak move 2 Blunder Corres Correspondence ou Olympiad Z Interzona 1 Teague ca Championship uf Semifinal 1 In the beginning .. . 1974 | Gary Kimovich KASPAROV was born on April 13, 1963 in Baku, where he stil ives. Gans father, Kim Moiseyesich Wainshtcin, an cengincer By training, was a coltured and versatile ‘man, He was particularly fond of musicand enjoyed playing the violin, 1s understandable that he dabbled in chess its more of a surprise that his wife was also interested ‘When Gary had jst turned sx the family reached a decision 0 teach him musi. It is interesting tO ponder what he would have Toi Fontributed to music had the Ween, fecision been cacried through ‘Would the vacuum im chess have | PHM Leste been filled by another genus? aka capital of Azerba of he Sete repubice es 170k (ore than 1000 mies) south of ‘Moscow. beyond. the. Caweasut Mountains, With ts population more ‘han milion Bak port on the ‘shores of the Caspian Seamed one {fthemostimporton ol etractng nd Iefning cones inthe wordt tors foes ack rosheiheontry: It has one Of the mies climate he Saver Erion ebowe tC 1m Tamar ond Dereon 2530 uy2 Ince beginning ‘That same evening of desision Gary's parents set up a position from the local newspaper column run by the old chess master, Suryen Abramian. Theie litle one, Gark (familar form of Gar). did not ease his eyes from the board: ter waking next-morning — at breakfast —~ Gary sugested 'move to solve the position ‘This amazed the familys aooae ha taught him the game. His father, cusious, tested him on the notation for the different squares! ‘Such skill only called for & partial raising ofthe eyebrows. ‘After al, Garik had learnt to fad and to add up when very young. Wainshtein to Kasparoy Gary's father, of Jewish Background, died before he had reached forty wen Gary was seven, Gary then lived together with his mother, lata Shagenovaa, and with her parems, who were of Armenian extraction, His mother, his materoal grandfather and grandmother were al called Kasparian, It was a natural sequel that Gary should adopt the Russian seston of this surname when he Legally could at the age of 12 ‘When Gary was seven, Rostik Korsunsky, a boy in the seventh grade from a neighbouring apartment, took Gay to the vhess cle of the Yong Prone movement (Korky he ines Became oe Babs hess masters) ‘chen in Asebidehan terrors perhaps dates Bach tthe Ab earns A.D: itor inks Berson ches and pty are thre nthe 1208 contr: Moser hes teat ron in aout the mi 10m conar. The MkogonosPeathcs, Vadim and Matha bor masts, comectd wth Bake vere welPknonn theaghost Seve ‘hestin the [990-tond [90s Nowadays the republic can Boat a Sth shal anda special nice-montly page Ruston ange jormal-Sakeay red The Rabu Young Ploners ces crcl. started in 1947, ha produc hot 20 frat caopory players and #8 came mars Ea 2300) Senn Abcam ‘ian the en a aera deo he hc a on rman before. Kasparov were gronimaser Viadimios ‘Bagiror (USSR Fharpiomhipcompestr mans ime nd Tanna Zataloasara icons ‘hampinship cand) Inthe beinning ‘The Baku Young Pioneers 'At the Young Proncers, Gary's fist trainer was Oleg I. Privorotsky, who alteady alter just a few lessons was remarking "I do not know Uehether other cites have similar beginners: there certainly is no onelike him ia Baku." ‘Garik played, according to trainer Privorotsk, eather weakly, but by his exceptional memory difered trom other novies. He learnt by heart the data (moves, results, scores) of World championship matches ‘And when the nsiructors began to eissect positions ad studies the boy iecame cut off from his surroundings and totally involved in the Uavelling ofthe complexities. Tmpresnve finishes interested Gar: it was not long before he came under the spell of the dynamic games of Alexander Alekhine (World ‘Champion 1927-38, 1937-48) which were to havea long astinginfluence fon hi. ‘Young Gary rapidly climbed the ladder of chess peeformances, from fourth category (€1450 rating), to third category (1600), to second Category (e-1800), I was thought worthy ofa paragraph in both local nd All-Union newspapers when as 9 year old and a fst category player (©2000 rating) Gank reached the final of the Baku ahtning Championship, ‘AU the end of 1973 a Scheveningen system tournament was held in Baku of D¥us chess trainers versus ist cotegory players. Gat Filled the norm fora USSR canchgate master(c2150). And thespecralsts were beginning tosize up Gary. Amonga! the taiers team was A. Shakharov ttto would become one of Gary's instructors it Bowinnik’s school Botvinnik’s School Tadeedl already i June 1973 Gary had played in his fist serious All Union event the Youth Team Championship at Vilius. Ia the final tournament the tensvear-ol meeting candidate masters did not love tespite al his opponents being older. Among the attending trainers was ‘Aleksandr Nikitin who paid particular attention to Gary's play. The fesult a month later the Boy ws invited to a Session of Botvinnik's School Mikhail Botvinnik had been world champion 1948-1957, 1958-1960, 1961-1963 and was certainly the USSR’ greatest player. His school begun in 1963, had included talented pupils ike Anatoly Karpov: all parts of the country were represented “The main work ofthe school was conducted by corsespondence. The pupils met their teacher in shor sessions two or three times Year formally during sehool vacations, A fresh, indvidualy-tailored tough fssignment of work would be allocated at the end ofeach Sesion4 Inthe beginning Kasparov said “In 1973 when I was still boy who just ike playing chest Mikhail Moiseyevich (Botvinnik) invited me to join bis choo. “There ino price I could name forthe things Igo Trom the course during the next five years. He does nat. impose his views on his pupils jotvinnik confirmed in me the view that Alekhine's chess was my sort also. When T became Soviet Junior Champion in 1977 Mikhail Moiseyevich congratulated me, Then he suggested that Igo though m9 winning games, I was severly criticised at some points in them. But hhe made me happy’ with the remark thatthe quality of my play gave hime steal hopes for me, otvinnik wrote “It was clear from the Beginning that he stood out among other boys because of his ability 10 calculate variations very ‘kills and for many maves ahead. But Gary was avery excitable bo Thai to ssi he think before making a move 1 also used 1 say: “Gar there isa danger tha ou will become ane Larsen or Taimano¥. Evenata ‘mature age thee esteomed grandmasters sometimes make a move firstand then think Baku Young Pioneers 1973-74 Baka’s team of Young Pioneers (six boys, one girl) qualified for the All-Union final of the Komsomolkaya Pravda event by winning. One fof the zonal events at Kiev during the 197874 New Year break. Baku scored 27-8, ahead of Kiev 22/5. Zaporozhye 19, Tashkent 18 Dnyepropyetrovsk Il and Staveopol T!=. For their team both Rostk Korsunsky and Gary Wainshtein won all five games. G.Wainshicin-V.Vasilyenko rage ee tM 2aas3 oa ceo srs YB Dh6 5 eS 16.6 ROS! a7 7 xc “ eemtats ate (gi ESitebenaawuae AS ae a WaT 14 Bet as 15 Ens Ws 16 Ded Waedt 17 Wed xe? 18 ned 0-0-0 19 gS ngs 20 he Hare 21 3 g6 22 Zhe. BIT 23 Ban Sy? 24°03 sed 25 94 fer 26 chugd eR 274 a6 2H ad SOT 36+ GRIP Ras Teh AO ZhT 29 b8 9821) 10 30 cf de 31 et ZeB? 32 aed Not a badly played positional ‘AJB. G16 LeeT M ded HEITIS game for 10 year ola! Tee Wg) 36 dS ed 37 dS et Inthe begining... S ““Komsomolskaya Pravda” Final 1974 MTom year old Gary Wainshtein was «| member of Baku's Young Pimners team, headed by grandmaster Bagirov, competing with young Ploneer teams [rom Moscow, Leningrad, Cheliabinsk, Riga Bi chemnostsy_ in Moscow at the end of March 1974 for the Komsomolshaya Pravda prize. Tach team of six bovs and one gt! Nad its grandmaster. played a clock simultaneous against cach of the other teams ‘Gary beat Averbakh, drew with Kuzmin and lost to. Tal (truly memorable experience) to Taimanoy and to Polugayewsy. incr who ‘A special report on Gary read “His basic chess failing is over= exuberance leading to his reaching over-optinstie assessments has This results in mistakes which are on aby sorted out de to is fatty ‘recording. But he stil just chi he will ueceedn becoming more old Inthout any forcing. Cary should have an experienced chest teacher (or fuen Better, grandiasers) wh. one must hope, will carey sot aut all his games” USSR Junior Championship 1975 Easily the youngest of the 42 competitors, which included 23 candidate masters, participate in the USSR Junior Championship at Vilnius (Jan, 1975) wast! year old" Gank Wainshin, He wos histist three games, thus played most ofthe leaders, and finished a meritorious Hin. The winner, Evgeni Viadimirov from Alima-Ata, was 17 years old Top ten in the 9 rounds Swiss event 1244567890 Rex 1 ENladimiror ee Ld wld om m% 2 E Kens beL Ke LK BD OH 3 VSokotor 1 0 a 4 Lvurtayer onoet rut 2 6 S Ayermolimky = 0 OT say 6 6 RGabdeakhmanos 4 3 6 7 GWainshein ser oo eK dM 8 S.Dvoinis oe Oe 4% 9 S.Pekker oo rary 10) E-Magerramor “oO & 4 The following game from thejunio championship was ineluded in the fies western press report on Gary, hy Leonard Barden in The Guardian, February 24" 1995. We quote6 Inshe Begining Whatever happens 10 the world tile m 1975, most experts predict that "Karpov will be Ficher"s Succestor= thi year. 1978, oF I 1981. Bat who. will be world ‘champion after Karpov? in my opinion there isa very clear favourite for word champion in 990, Te 1 IPsearold Gary Wainehicin from Baku, couched by JIM Bagiroy. youngest ployer inthe USSR funion championship and pountest candidate master” since Karpox. In Exelish rave terms, Woimahiein is a 190 player 21200" the Fo scale) and improving fst. B.Binoris-G.Wainshtein Sicilian 39 Los 2 oe SG Su 4 xd Ot6 5 od a6 6 aes Now Gary prefers to push the ce-pawn just one square forward 7 Obs ReT #00 00 o 4 Reacting. to Whites seldom sccm, and dubious, move in the theoretically approved manner. oa Obs nog gare ‘The manocuvie ...Sck-d7-<6 is employed By Gary frequently it the Scheveningen. Here it repre ents theoretical novelty. Black flko stands well afer Il eb 1Dgh hes! 13 Base ‘A. rather obvious blunder, simply giving up @ pawn for no feason. Having alfeady ceded the ‘dS square to Black's pieces, White has nothing bette: than 13. Eel (P13 fe de 14 Bas Wid! acS with a Cough fight ah winere the chances are oughly aul Bo. axes sel et 1s ker Ghxds we a Ser 1S Otes White's aggressive posturing does not intimidate. the. young Baku lad who simply suerownde his monarch with protection and concentrates on using. that ‘eat passed pawn on 4 18 ka Geb pM ow ‘The white king has borrowed the Emperor's new clothes. and if he captures on f6, his nakedness ssl become obsious eg 20 al? (Bato 20°05 xb? 22 ZI why 23 Gig? has Fas 24S i met by Dg neal 25 xed Bet 26 53 Ex 2 kes as a ch kT 21. de 22 xed gives White excelent prospects 22 kbe wae! nos Now the pressure on the Black contre hus Been released, and the connected passed pawns are free to roll. That. White can regain ‘mateval equality i relevant Be wT 24 Gus axes 28 ane? Bxe7 26 Oyb7 at Sitting on a splendid diagonal besides blockading the 2-pawn, aT as as ww dott hs » a 30 “Theres no possible role fortis tortoise on the queenside. A last tesperate idea is 30 a5! we 31 ws wet SD oWa2 | Haes! Sewing up » prety exchange 33 Odo Hes Me ab7(2) Mo Intending 35... Wh3 mate 38 ah? oy Fiecing one attacker, the brave 00k jumps night nto the army oF nother! 36 kus wad a7 ms ad Bom od 9 Im @ oun et a ab 2 Onet on Inthe begining. 7 |A wild draw from this junior championship: S.Dsoirs-G.Wainshtcin si se Ted eS 2 215 De6 3dded4 Ouad M65 eB d66 RedeGT Led eT e2 469 0-0-0 e710 303 0-011 4 nds 12 Badd bs 1395 O71 ‘ahs Tas 18 Sst ECO gives 15S and 15 Bal. 15 {45 was analysed by Aleksandr Nikitin in 1968 is. ot 16 axis Des uo 1017 Bak gs 18 We BO ives Black the beter chanees 7 6 17 ag 18 Wd Hes 19 63 AF would have been possibie eM any) 1 ass eT 2 Wher AT 2 Wah7e ek 22 Wages aT 28 WIS Ge 24 y= Ga 28 EAS Wed 26 hat 67 27 WHT ret 28 Eades ek 29 SRE GLOW M0 aaRe BydR 31 ESB5 Ince beginning Ged 32 AIR hdT 33 WETs bd BS 18 OS 4 19 x6 We Beh 34 Wks 17 35 WSs Ses 20.15 nlS 2 ef be 22 cd O47 36 WdRs ENT 37 WET- 6 SB 23.46 GIT 24 13 Labs 25 as (4) Wess tS 39 WaT Heo 40 Wace, Exe6 41 D3 xh 42 ed be She Dy Ad da? 1S 4528 ABT we Baku “City Cup” This knock-out micro-match (of so games with tes resolved by S:minute bli games) compet= ition brought together 128 maser, fandidatesmaster and fest category Players in autumn, 1975. The inal 28 .. QDI 26 Bhd dsr! 27 "a keen strugale ~ ended ina ExdS ett 28{6 dnf629 BIS ane} Victory forthe 6th class pupil over 30 MIT Bxb2+ 31 Wyb2 xb2 32 thechess master. Hereishedeciive _ZeT ef 33 Hel 34M Sd Och, same: The violent flare-ups from the O.Paslenko-G.Kasparoy King’s Indian Defence ate EM. Kasparov characteristic 1d8 06 2e4g63De3 Re74edds [oie 42/1975 of the weekly 64 Sh30-06 Bed 8 745 GhS8 Ber reporting the above event wrote {8129 BxnS gh 10 Webs (411 42 that Kasparov, previously known {d7 12 0-0-0 016 13 Wed Wek 14 as Wainshtein, now bore. the DE e$ 18 I a6 16 g4 ITT maternal family name Grandmaster/Young Pioneers 1975 The Komsomotskaya Pravda Grandmaster/Young Pioneers event vas staged in Laningrad, November 1975, Gary drew with grandmanters Viktor Korchnoi (1978 and 1981 challenge), Lev Polugayessky and. Gennady Kuzmin, beat master Boris Katalimow and lost to ex-world ‘champion Vassily Smystow and world champion Anatoly Karpov ‘Detaled results: Moscow 84 (Smslov 38 fom 42 ~ 6 clock simul on 7 boards ~ plus his team's 16 points notched from other grandmaster), Leningrad 89% (Korehnoi 377s plus 12), Kusbishye 42 (Polugavesky 37 plus), Cheliabinsk 42(Karpov 37 us), Baku 39(Bagirov 3) plas 51), Voroshilovgrad. 37/5 (Kuemin 32 plus 8!) and. Alma-Ata 30, (Katalimow 28): plos 11). This was the fst crosing of swords between Karpov, then the newly ‘crowned world champion, and Gary Kasparov. The game: AKarpor-G Kasparov Sicilian bor TebleS 2 O19 46 3€4 of 4 Oxdd ‘6 § DeBab 6 her eS7b3 eT 8 Sigs S069 14ef 10 axt4 Deol 0-0 0-0 12 hI DS 13 AIS GS 14 Se Bed 1S HAR bd 16 8 Sas Ted f6 18 Ba? Who 19 ed (4720 ded Zeb 20. go 2208 48 28 ab ab 24 Baad Eua8 2563 “Zab 26 Cies 2x06 27 de) 0 es? “had such’a good postion cried the young Baku boy after the game, Black actualy di have the fnitiative, and after 27... 6S ‘White would have had an uphill battle ro dav, Now the pitare is radically altered 2B dds ed 23 In Eel 30 eB kad BoaMT+ a7 2 ket Kasparov ad not seen this “shot beforehand. The double thyeat "mate ‘on 1S andthe capture ofthe bishop a ab, frees Black to go in for a” losing endgame, 2 ixgl 33 dapl BABE M sald xed 3S Inthe begining. 9 be a7 36 be? Wad 37 Was BT 34 Wed b3 39 ch Wh2> 40 SN Wel et Gel WT4 42 gt Wad 4B Gh. Bho 4 WeTs Sho 4S ams 10 Here is Kasparov's draw with Pokugayevsky G,Kasparor-L.Polugayesshy Sciam N TebieS 2 03 06 8 43 45 4 Sibd2 eb S eh 6 6 ag? Sige 70-0 0-0-8 Bel eT 9 Wer (9 ai! imendingc3,b4)9...b610h4 24 TT 241 (11 Be datending 23 mote patient.) Ma de 12 West! Bee (12. BBA!) 13 Ba Oral 1 De3! SUSE 1S Dated He LS 1617 Zeal fg 18 OxgS go 19 el! no (9) 20 Woo! dG (IE 20 ng 21 Wager Ghk 22 Whe hes 23 dss wads 24 Hest Gis 25 eT wins) 21 26 Wae6 22 Arco ‘Byeg (22. BIT is met by 23 SnD). HS 24 OH.) 23 Ge 24 Geb {4 28 p86 (Gary preferred to sttengten his postion father than to win a pawn by 25 Eager wh? 26 Hob.) 28. dat10 In the beginning Rotvinnik, commenting atthe time on this game, boldly asserted “In the hands of this youne mn les the fare of chess USSR Junior Champion 1976 ‘epoint better on the Buckhol i-breaking system brought Gary the USSR junior tile atthe Beginning of 1976, 8 youths under 18 contested the 9-round Swiss system event held ia Toil. Details 1. G.Kasparos 7-2 (includes draws with E.Lanka, E.Stursa and P Gabdrakhmanoy published), 2 ESturua 73. PGabdakhimanov 6); 4° Vasyenko 6); 58 Lanka, S_putyan, A Hantonov and L-Yurayev {6 9. AYosupow $i Maya Chiburdanidze, women's work champion tobe, won the gts’ championship held alongside G.Kasparor-M.Myerkulor 1LYartayev-G.Kasparoy Sicilian B36 Sicilian ma LedcS2 O13 feo Rated 4 Drddgs Led eS 23 lS 3eS dS Added S Sed 0166 Se} Gut 7 Wadd des ed WoT 6 We? Odo 7 AbIdS (7 “LS ig7 9 W200 10 ed eo HT —-d3!”) Bed Wrd6 9 OFF Ob 10 Ther Was 128 0h 1886 14d 0.0 03 11 Wed Sa 12 D43 96 13 OMISHENS 16 Ral RETITRAT() GeS GDS 1 ad GIS 15 Dac Bxe4 16 xed Bb (8) io wee wl "(2 A kw awe ao lee a oe hes an vosd7beyigenacis.. | HX BEE | 19 Bsc?) 19 th cb 20h 17 We G6 18 4 Weed 19 he 2 ch xbs 22 Baghs yg? 28 e820 GaShs 21b4 1622 Odes Bgl G24 Lys WeS26 zvcSde 23 ed Heo 24 14 eo 28 Dies 26 OxbS Wrbs 27 Whos pw IB SreS Ihe 9427 fe Fe 28 BAKE Wes. hh 29 Wres Wad 30 Hed 29 SL eT 80 diel go M GA WaT S105 Ou 32 Web Wa 33 Hes eB 32 ned Zgs 33 el ANT gy M died 6 35 Wed OM 3M Ge? Hag? 38 Lg? dng? 36 Wes Bale 37 ed hI 38 who-has TST Bnes HI 38 h3as gS 9 WES HE AO Wahs. ed Ha 4O KeIDAAT LIS segs eB AT Wyk hE AD 6 M6 43 42 WD HeO43 Ha? HedD44 Rea? EnSt 1-0 (ots 0:1 fortnightly, 64, greeted Gary’s performance in the | art" World Cap tor Cadets, juniors born after 31.1258, staged at Wattignes (near Lille France), July 5-13, 1996. Gary shared third place score in the 9 round, 32 player Swiss event TNo junior as young as thirteen has represented the Soviet U sport abroad in a""Western™ county belore Gary Kasparov World Cup for Cadets, Watgnies 413.7.1978 rissa 7 890 Rew 2] A Thirteen Year Old Abroad aa | World Cadet Cup Nrepokho ba! That's how the Ruan 1 N.Grinberg IS 1 ™ 2 MChandler NZD wat 3 LRogers AUS 112 6 4 M.Petursson ISD oa 6 5 GKasparoy URS “4 6 © A.Groxzpeter HUN 6 6 7 Sander Wil NDL wo? 8K 8 JUG 03 x 9 IN #5 os 10 Diramling SVE © OL Ew KS Us12: G.Franioni (SWZ), A:Sélégny (FRA) 5; 1-15: J.P.Lejcone (FRA, O.Foisor ROM), SSemow(BLG) 4.490 L-Atoold (FR). D:DuneIRU), [Morovie (CH: Weber (LUX), B-Roas (FRA) 4 21-25 Salen (NOR), 4MTodpson (ENG), D. Walker (SCO) By 24.25" A Serdar (TR). ster (WLS), 2627 "vata IRD), A Galle (BEL) 2-28: A.Wende! (OST) | Kasparov beat Dunne, D.Roos, Send and Galle12 A Thirteen Year Old Abroad ‘Tere was a neat combinative finish to Gary's round eight ime: G. rove Rogers cian Bas Tet cS 2 21 Geb 3 dt ed 4 Gadd 06 § Ged 68 6 DaAb5 U6 7 gS 06 8 Das 6 (8 bs! — Seeshoikow Variation) 9 ed Ze 10-G¢8 e711 Bxt6 Bxf612 ed O-0(12 ApS 13 Rye fe Ld Wat Sh led to a protracted struggle in Rohde-Dan Cramling, World union Ch 1977.) 13 bs Ga 14 0-0 es 15 edS Eab3 16 ab 26 17 Sint ho 18 WB 1819 oF C20 (4 GhR 21 Had) Wh 22 We2 23 Shed BIT 24 EY ABS 25 rds (ANGI 26 Snc8 AS27 Cce7 328 arn (5) ay fal Wed (IF 29. gxtt 30 ease) 30 AHF (Iovending 31 gor to win the Black queen.) 0 BG SL ATG ute 32 Sinks IT 34 dS HE Mel 0 1976 Games ‘Gary’ reply to Lpuian’sSimiseh King’s Indian, from the Caucasus Youth Games held at Tos is an inspiring example of Black's ounterattacking and combative posses: S.Lpatan-G Kasparov King’s Indian, Samisch E83 Tadd Ox6 2e4y63 De3 Lg7 Hed de S13 26 6 Sed a6 7 WA2 ED8S bl 0-0 9 be White's move promises both an imoresting and complex stugale ‘White usually plays 9 Dae2, strengthening. the central point 44," and only then initiating ‘operations on the queenside. BY playing 9 bs here, White actually provokes Black’ reply and the following sactilice ofa pawn, ° ‘st 10-05 a4 11 Ope? €8 12 de bet 1 Oxdd ed 1s sds Test 1a on eS IS be Sxed 16 fe ands” appears quite tempting but afer 1? all Zable 1s Dbl Waed 19 xg? Wabl 20 Wel Bett 21 Gar Wrel+ 22 xc! eng? 23 ed Wd8 24 5 Hes 25 knob WreS+ 26 th? the complications are concluded and an endgame reached which is favourable for White 1 Bes! poses White & more dificult” problem: to find the forrest path inthe” minefield Pethaps the proper decision was 1 ks 1S Red o8t 1 be Saet Brings outa. possible weak- ness of Whites 8 Sb. 9b4 plan te whe ngs On 18 a there would have followed 18... xe} 19° Bxhd ExbIr 28 (2 Red? 21 Ho! de with 2 serious advantage for Black. 1. mabe @. bt! 20 gh Bed? 21 ng? chug? 22 Ge8 Be 28 eds Bees ae Biack a technically won endgame, despite the material equality 2S ads kT % el des 26 15.27 5 os 28 red BxeS would also have sufficed aT ad 5 2% ZbL Lred 29 ube 14 30 Beas 8 3 ann 0S 32 Ear HG GM der At 3S 03 “el 36 HT IS 37 as ‘Bxd3 38 BNP OI OT Oleg Romanishin, Ukrainian srandmaster, guest of honour at the Komsomolskaya Pravda zonal event at Baku, early November 1976, played clock simultancous against 16 of the participating A Thirteen Year Old Abroad 13 juniors. He lost two games, both to candidate masters. Here fone! omanishin-G Kasparov Bird's Opening 03 nat as Garik’s distke of the 1 et eS openings discourages him from employing the From Gambit (1 e51)) as White can then take the opportunity £0 transpose to the King’s Gambit with 28 2 as Ate 3k aed 4b A. Nimzowitseh-Larsen type attack 4. Oba Sree 6 hea ter 7 00 asta Black eliminates his “enemy raumber I° before it reaches an aggressive post ate Bx est The passive # .. ob would allow 3. Qbd2, ck. Kasparoy ven atthe age of 12 displays that fbsession with the centre which has become such a characteristic Of his later games. 9 a3 After 9 fe ©yeS Black has very comfortable game, but the e-pawn cannot be allowed 10 advance with impunity: oe “hae 0 8 0-0-0 Black plays boldly, inspired bby White insipid opening ply. 10 040 would have given him 2 fully equal, but much less ieresting, game.14 A Thirteen Year Old Abroad not White ssi up a “Mujannah’ formation. This: pawn structure. dating from the Mh century. is ‘not popular but was oecasionally Employed by Staunton and Nimzo witch, ‘The bolstered c= and Fpavns are placed to try 10 contain the opponent's advance inthe centre, Mee ee ie Alter 12 de? Woo! intending ff, Black isin good position to try to win in under 20 moves, cog. 13 fe Weds 14 Sl (14 B12? Rest) 14 Sines 13 gr Ded 2 13 we Get 15 hy Ww elf) 6 gf Hass? 17 acl may hhave been no worse, but Black fain still employ the theme he ‘demonstrates in the game s » et ews a » * 6 est ‘A. brilliant conception, nat because of the obvious 17-1 ‘ing’, where Black has an over ‘sheiming attack, but because he boldly opens up the Tong diagonal fof White's bishop at b2. The Sheer chutepah ts also quite impressive 17 Get Has Garik missed something? 7 ‘aed! 1s ie On 18 xh8 O43 is crushing, While 18 Bed hak is stil very Unpleasant s hys 1 Sess 2 ot ne Sus. nets: wart 23, wa 23 Wres would have allowed imate alter 23 2. Zixgtt! Now ‘White has no compensation for his material deficit, Be ar a dhs he 28 ate Bas 26 act G7 2 gs 2 GM er ways ess ot fot waiting for the finish 30 eho Tuer 31 Gh Biss 32. Shs EEht mate, (Notes by F.Sohiller) 1977 USSR Junior Championship ‘Gary Kesparov crushingly Won the USSR Junior Championship at Rien in January 1977 as the following part table ofthe 9 round, 36 pave, Swiss event shows: A Thirteen Year Old Abroad 1S or en 1 G.kasparor 1 a ay 2 A Bes 41 Dygst wor a2 kas Ean 43 2 10 Youth The Youth Games, staged in Moscow, July $13 1977 between teams of sik juniors from the Sixteen Soviet republies (including Moscow and Leningrad), as m0 a Kasparov sensation pointwise The scored Irom 7 games on boar one for Azerbaidehan (best, result S. Dolmatov 6!s-1'5) — bu possibly an important esening ep. Games, Moscow 1977 Ukraine won preliminary setion 2 by 15-} ahead of Azerbaidzhan {Gary's team) 117s, Estonia Sand Kirgistan 4. In the match with Estonia Gary hada desporate Strugale with a possible future rival JLBhlves-G Kasparov Caro-Kann bis Ved ob 2 ef d5 3 of od dod 26 5 Bed xdS 6 dd c67 OF ed SWS BATS 9 GF E610 ded co U1 Kgl ibd 12 2b§ O45 13 7 Who 14 BIL Ded 1S x6 Bach he S617 gs e718 SDs BAT 19 ab7 0.0 20 bt fe 21 Wal Was 22 ed Sh8 23° eS 24 13 Wes 25:45 as 26 Gel eT 27 Sat eh DK HN ENI29 Wed neh 30 odd 7 SE ad et SP HDS 16 88 Wed ds Mer Wes 35.507 Wer= 36 EI wade 37 eh 20) 37 a, gt 8 eS Wrd5 39 pT ag? 40-2462 (40 West Wes 41 Wee ed GI hI wins) 40 aL +! O-1 (Time — 45 moves 2% hours Age Fourteen: 1 28 Byelorussya 6/4. The Korzubov= Kasparov game was to be one of the subjects ofan antcte. headed Zeno Sickness in Shakmaty Riza Nou2/198t. written by leading trainee Vladimir Zak, extcal of the clock hanaling Georgia beat Ukeaine 4-1/5 in the final play-off for first and second places and Azerbaidzhan {Grew 3-3 sith Moscow for third? Inone semi-final section Georgia Tourth places butlostonte-break and. Averbuidehan each scored which was influenced by Ga’s Wh, ahead of RSFSR 9} and loss to Dolmatoy. World Cadet Championship 1977 Te year old Jon Arnason, already Iceland's national champion, won the fist official World championship for Cadets (under 17) held at Cagnessurrmer in the South of France, September 8-19, 1977, This S2player tleround event was much stronger than the 197% World Cadet Cup and Botvinnik considered Gank's result ~ a clear third ‘behind Jay Whitehead (USA) ~ good. Gary was much younger than sont of the other competitors. And he beat the winner. World Cup for Cadets, Cognes-sur-mer 819.9.1977 P28 $56.7: 890 Rest 1 S4.Amason ISDE OT TTT 98 2 UWhitehead USA 0 eT Say 3 Ghkasparoy URS 1 OY a8 {oMkape GBR 00 Te 1d a Mh StMomiccH iss we wa 49 6 ANaulescu ROM 0 0 0 er ad 7 MSmntofomen FRA OU OK OS Be 8 JPajak CON o * on ou 9 Nshor ENG, Ono we She 0 ASendur TRK ooo 4 tS 6 1Hs120 © McNab (SCO), M,Drasko (IUG) 6 1820 M.Berpstrom (SVE) JDclangy URL), Seppe (ARG), AGrevntld USL), J Janson (NOR! ESequrira (POR), MAndercn (DEN). BZuger (SWZ) 3.2124" A. Loper (CO), B Weider (POLY, C Depaequaie (AUS), Jane Garwell (WLS) 8 V-Foucau (210A), Sina (HRS), M Lesks FRA}, RN Bervotee (NLD) S.Gharei (TUN), R rover (BEL) ¥ Godin (LUX). E-Di Cera ITA}24 Age Fourteen: 1 J.Amnason-G.Kasparoy Sicilian, Scheveningen BSS Ted e52 O16 3 dd od 4 Gnd M65 Sic8 466 Led a6 Tad 068 Bed eT 9.0.0 0-0 10.4 eT GM Bas (ECO BES gives 11 Bas. 11. £07.11. dk and ‘Badd 12 Wel (12 BEF Ges} Th. Onda 13 dd 8 14 fede 1S Bed dep 16 g3 W817 Had? (17 gS En8 1S a3 intending 2asismore active) 7... ud 18 ud dB 19 Sind nd 20 ho 021 RY he 27 ded d8 23 WR Byes 24 Wes 2) 24 Wha! 25 bo Wd 26 WAS (G7! 27: OSE 28 HS (E28 Wadd De3+! 29 el ed 30 De? Biyed+ 31 xed 6 the bishop «nding is unpromisng for White) ay war 29 Was WD 30 Gh? DA BE Wer 32 245 ds 33.ed UD M Led 1535 BEINGS (46 db 37 Wed OS 38 de? DI 39 Wes ed 40 ont eT OL (One report commented that Gary and Ivan Morovie made 1 most fMfetive team at table football! USSR ¥, Australia, telex Telex matches can belong drawn out affais. But Gary Kasparov avoided this bleak prospect in the USSR-Australia TeleOlympiad 8 board match (September 24, 1977) by beating Guy West onthe junior Board 28 Follows: G.Kasparor-G.West " a0 TedeS 2 013 O16 3 Ded o6 444 cA 5 Oud bd Ges O48 7 BaD Dyed 8 he A 9 ds do 10 Wer ear? (22) 1 Sxe6t we oe 10 ven that had taken 4 hours to play and transmit. ‘The top five boards were all “drain ul the USSR three Bottom boards all won, 1 was fourteen hea I realised that chess was going to be my ie.” Kasparon, 1982, 4 | Minsk 1978 AGE 1978 saw Kasparov's dramatic leaps forward. He 14) yaristinastongonanenta Alea ten iin Sscrctnnt Beng ih [Benet te Youngest sp te Top anew fof the USSR Championship. One immediately thighs of Capablanca’s advance (beating Marshall in 1909, winning San Sebastian io I91 aged 20-22), Tal'sprogress tothe world ttle 1957-60 (aged 21-23, Fischer US Champion beginning of 195k 40 Canchdate 1989 age 1415) for comparison The est thrust went almost uneemarked in man foreign periodical The young man from Baku playing inthe Sth AP Sokolsky Memorial Tournament at Minsk in Janvary, personally internationally unrated beat his first grandmaster, Lutikow, in equal combs, He came firs ahead of 14 rated players who averaged 2414 points: Sokolsky Memorial. Minsk 197826 Minsk 1978 score (10-4, Garys performance earned him the USSR tite of Master of Sport, He overfulilled the requited norm by 3); points! ’S bewildered spectator at Minsk began to berate the Byelorussyan chess organisers. ’Our masters ae losing to kids! There's something ‘wrong. The dsualy tactura Janis Klovan standing nearby was provoked fo retort "You're geting upset about nothing. You'll ear more about that hi.” The nature of Kasparov's success demanded such responses. His wins stemmed from fullrblooded struggles evolving rom Gary's temendously fnergeti style backed by comsantly creative, (Le. innovative and Improvising) approach tur ciel igure i 1S year old Gary Kasparov of Spartak, Bak He has studied in our schoo! for ve years and matured in all areas. At the time of the February examination session in 1978, 1 found myself without an assistant, Gary successfully filled this role in the parts concerning opening analysis, "in January of that year, Gary participated in Minsk ina formidable tournament, the Sokolsky Memorial where he took frst place, Hote an evample of the ‘chet figure of our school.” ~Botvianikn Soviersky Sport, Apel Sth 1978 GKasparov-A.Rolzman 0 wan ‘Spanish cor Mote was (Notes by M.Borvinnk) not LedeS 2 O13 cb 3 ADS Oat 4 Boa Es Dadded $04) &eS6d3e67 etds Black demonstrates that he too Bt has play = along the efile Characteristic of Kasparov's Get keT style of play: he begins active 15 ate Bye ‘Operations at the frst opportunity Wo et s 26 ven By es ae Black plays forthe anack himsell Probably 9... dS wassharper, but his king remains in a precatious not allowing the opening of the position. 17. $39 was called for, Pile Followed by”. hs 10 axrr+ 18 a Now Black will hive to forego viable comparison: White is casting, on top of which White not endangered by an attack on ‘wll have a better pawn structure, the pawn at g2, since he can seal but most important of all the the file with 1 minor piece. turmoil is beginning. The first Therefore Black puts the h-pawn attack, however, is successfully into the game, turned back by Black ee. BS (2) 19 gst [As soon ay his opponent fests secure, White unleashes. an un txpected stroke ~ 10 reply 19 Tags isn't on, because of 20 Dt and Black's position is torn asunder. The hopeless position of his king begins to tel 1% ‘was 20 Bis et he Burning his bridges the bishop. thas nowhere to lee. But what's Mo. Bas (24) Back, it seems, had suspicions only about one danger: 22 Axis il 23 Wes! withthe unstoppable threats of 4 @xt6and eS. But now there follows a new and Already decisive blow! The only Minsk 1978 27 possibilty to continuethestrugele was 21s 2g ‘Transgresting the standards of positional tenets, White exposes fhe position of his own king bot itis important that therook on 186 tucns out to be in danger — Wis this which decides the Batl 2 ‘be? Belated reiveat. On 22 —. he there would have followed 255. It was hardly possible proton the resistance by 22 0. xed hocause of 23 gh W6x7 24 ved 2 ah i as Wese tho 25 hse gh a ms dase yom 10 A dynamic game! Kasparov comments: “To the analysis by M.Botvinik I should like vo adda few beautiful “lack could defend the h-pawn which was. stacked bythe move 22 pal with 22... Zh ‘Against this there was prepared 23 Eso) Expt 24 Wag hg 25 BneT+! xe? 26 O54, oF 23 ‘Bato! 2495 40425 Hach p76 5ieo His 27 2 ~ Blacks position is very bad, but he could still “alter 19 digs! Black had the ‘curious “counterattacking. move 19. 3 whieh wouldhave been best refuted by 20 Dxf6 shalo 2 WAGGr! with mate ina few moves or 20. Wagr> 21 Bag? ANE? 32 Bact28 Mink 1978 Kasparov, QGD, Semi pa 1485 24063 ied 264 DEBS Sod Qnd5 6 c3 cb 7 ad Se? s 00 Oo 9 Oxds Gtancing atthe Eneselopeda of Chess Openines one may discover that 9 Grd8 doce not give White an opening advantage. But the Sime conelision is reached in this ‘manual about the other possible Eontinuations here = 9 Ded, 92, 9 Hel and9 as ° was wo was Mode bes “The position arising alter 1 bs 12 He? krcSinconsidered to bbe equal, but i this really so? For example 13a3 Dee 18 bs a 15 Gixdd Gxdd 16 sb? Drer+ 17 ‘Wre? and, notwithstanding. the Simplifications, White cetans the os ger Bowe Sher 1 would have been better to exchange knights with 3 dd god 15 a8 28 16 Wed g6 17 Lo Bes EOS Iw Wine [2 A 18 ws » 1 It is not simple 10 defend against White's solent attack, On the natural 19. @xb2 there |Would have Followed 20 Ba hs 21 Wp Wad 22 Wes Is 28 ats Ext and mow not 34 hg? ig 25 ‘Bxg6 WTA, ur 24 a2! withthe intention of transferring the rook to the kingside via 6 OF course it seemed to Black that 19. 78 sucessfully solved the problems of defence, Indeed alter 20 ef Oxl6 the storming pan at Sis lost. Nevertheless, Black's evaluation at this point, as-at his 13th torn, proved to be Superficial Wf ox 21 Wel! Oahs 22 Des ahs 23_aage! (25) On 23... he, 24 Wed IS 25, Waet't 057 26 Se wins Be ete 24 Bann Crude, but correct. White mates after both 24. xh7 25 BL land ater 245. 2xh? 25 Wed 10 Gans fist ‘one to one" winover a grandmaster, played inthe last round: Pas Of67 O46 3 Hc3 Red bed BAT (4 e654 6) SS Oh Goede Ode x13 7 WAI Zined 8 Gab? =)6h3 AA 6. BhS7 eh EGR intending c6)7 Wale Gis (8 ea! od 9 d3 5 10 £18. a5 (8 06 9 cd Salo! 10 000 Bods 11 dest =) 9 6 fe 10 a Big 1 We2 g6(11.. Wes 1200.0, 0.04013 Whee Waa 14 Wxcor be 13 ab mate) 12 We6 47 130-0 ns 14 des?! Gah (Atte | ‘add!? {planned 15 Gxds cd 16 ‘BS 016 17 Baal Ws Ts Baa but at home saw 16... abintending cS) 18 Wid 6 16 We? Bo 17 Bael (intending £4, 18)17 06 TIT. IT 18 a? Be 19 He, 6g, 19. add 20 Wed Wes 203 (oF 19... Wa7 20 eS followed by 5.15) 18 Dad G7 19406 19. Bab 20 Bes) 20 wa? es 2 AEE WeT OL dT 22 04 de 2 ‘xet) 2208 Was (22.65 23d0be 24 ct) 23 GedeS 24 Db1! Wad 24 “W425 Wabi ch 26 do, 24 Waar” 25 Get) 28 de be 26 of 847 (26 6627 Be} oF 26 ocd {0 exploit the position of Black's queen) 27 Sed Was 28 We? WEB (P28. eS 29 gaat a4 30 Hes Minsk 1978 29 ‘W631 p54) 29 es Ob6 3024 (30... WeT 31 ed ed 3225 Oba? 3 ads Oxd5 B6 et) M ed eT 32 a8 (32 cb itending Hdl) 32... GbdT 33-shes ObK 346 Tal Baas 85 Ded EMH! 36 AE Deb BT be S82! (27) G7. Dred ‘wre 4) 138 BUT! Bxd7 9 od OF6 40 Od6+ Be7 41 Oxed (or 41 BHI AT a6 42 kd6+ Gnd 43 AW xt 44 WaB+ eT (G4. HeTAS Tel) 45 Hal ds 46 Wed B17 (46 De¥l 47 Wha) 47 Dest gd 4 a7 e449 oI Was 50 209 (30 OuiR? Ged St Wak Dab 52 Drco+ GIT $3 gst be7 54 {WoT and Hrd! winning) $9 nc SL Gal Sxt8 52 Exh7 WHA Ss Wa Dale 84 EL aS 5 aT Bd8 56 Teas se Setting a ea S7 shed 4+ Su 3? c2 59 Bes {2q3 60 Exe? Del+) $7 gh 10 (Notes based on ‘Karparov's in Shakmary Riga)5 | Top League! AGE | otborochnii at Daugapils 15 "The Osbarochnis (Qualying) Tournament sage ofthe seth USSR Championship held inthe Latvian town of Daugapishad 64 grandmaster and masters competing ina [round Swiss sytem even for one place inthe Top League (final) Tournament and a further eight players for places inthe (seminal) Fist Leage Tournament The fifteen year old “Bokinsky schoolboy, Gary Kasparov, took the siantstep into the Top League by virtue ofasteeak of) potas rom st {rom rounds 2-Fand s superior Huchole tiebreaker, Ants meant nto the top eciions of World chess ‘Gaiy'sco-winner, Igor Ivanov, who started with two losses and then reel ff i stag wins etore ein comin by Gary m0 moves {ound had tobe content with place inthe Furst League sbared [ith place there and thu fale 0 each the Top Lexgue. What such minute Sierences lead to! Onorachn, Daganps 264 = 142.1978 125456789 Rost 1 GKasparoe Bis w wt wd aK 8 2 Livanow wis es 9 3 Vikupreichik 2880 0 IT Sy 8 4 AMIMbalchishin MOO I EK SH 3 AKapengut 2465) 5 5 on a 6 APanchenko 2495 00 sa 7 V-Tseshhowshy 2850 on a 8 LAbure aslo 74 9 SiMakarichey % on 8 Kasparoy also beat R.Korsunsky (R3}, S.Cputian (RS). M-Tssithin (2480) (RO), S.Palatnik (2490) (R), drew with Vu Nikolayevsky (2179) (4), and lost to RiHolmov (2540) UR) rom round {G-Kasparov-A.Pancheako Silian Ret TedeS 2 O13 O63 ted 4 Oxdd 65 03 d6.6 digS 06 7 a2 a6 8000 kd7 9 bs {A popula, but dubious, system 10 Bal gf 10... ufo? Hed de 12 Sdxhs) 11 Dach ret 12 Reds or 12 Wed, oF 12 Wel! gives White stable advantage. ‘The route | those is not bad either. 10" 2xc6 xe6 Mods ker nos de te bar Weaker is 13. dS M4 xe WreT 15 De4 0.0 16 hit withthe threat of S64 14 kxeT ye? 15 eat vet A game with Yermolinsky in Leningtad 1977, complicated ut favourably for me: 13... Wes 16 hel Ha? 17 co ce 18 WE Wes 19 ed 0-0 20 Ciel Exes Bg3 Bask! and White was ltt missing a pawn. But the mater Ties not inthe strength of 1 18S, but rather in the following mistakes by White. Thus, instead OF 18 WI, beter is 18. Wes oF 18 "Was, and instead of {6 hel inter= sting #8 16 Sxc6 Wae6 17 Hea BONIS) Ore! In this game, Panchenko chooses a much more Principled continuation, accepting White's pawn sacrifice, eventhough afterwards ‘Black will have 10 ‘experience an unpleasant attack. 16 Oxed Ones Top League! 31 7 oe 18 S68 19 UW dys (29) lWisn'teasy to defend ater 19 77 20 Whe Orb 21 Haas tT 22 Hel 5 23 Web either. 2 et he aM ar Worthy of attention was the sacrifice of the exchange: 21 Bas!” 22 O45 add 29 Cnet GIT 24 Baad Gre, bur perhaps the most resistant was 21 308 2 Wed ars Bos we ods On 28... BeS there follows 25 85, and now 25 hg 26 he Wess ‘no good because of 37 Wag6 Sxs6 2S Dyeb Hes 29 Sa BS (29)32 Top League! lack is cramped. 260 gl aK After 26. 6 there ivalready the decisive 27 pT? song? 28 ght ete, ower he 28 ch ee w Sym war Ws easy to e convinced of the strength of White's threats alter 2. Beg 3 Dg? gl MT ‘Weds nb 32 gl 29 Bes doesnt change ensthing after 30 eit 30 weT ag 0 30. Wal+ 3 a2 Ease 32 who 3 Wf Watt 32 ed? WAS AB shed Hipage? Mt Bug? Sag? 38 Bgl 10 From round 7 G.Kasparor-s.Palatik Alekhine bos Te fh 265 OS 344064 O86 Shed Ob6 6 RDI aS 7 a4 eT 8 gs est [Anew idea, promising asharper strugule than'the taditional 8 48914 07 90-00-0 10 Bel 2c6 ii C316 [Def of 13 eb with better chances for White oH ae w fe ro no oar Black did not take advantage lof White's inaceuraey: It att 12 Wet cd 13 2M (13 2x07 00) 14 Ody Byil+ 15 att dT 16 xb? a6!) 13. res 14 BI ‘Deb released Black feom all is ficulties, More precise would have been 11 ed cd 12 0.01 ete Dok Bet Nov White's initiative becomes menacing. Te was necessary fits, fo exchange on da. After 12 4 13 ed cb White could have Continued 14 24346 15 23! fe 16 Bus Wed 17 de Dyes Ts Dres ENIL+ 19 Wut eS 20 Hel with ood play for the pawn. 1} Gel eT 13 aed HE digs Wa? leads co quick ruin: 15.06 Sst Tokar dei? Wel 14 hed eT 15 gst Black hopes t0 protect the weakened kings wih his knight bout White's reply forces further weakneses 1S. ot si 6 7 an gs an ‘The autempr to immediately destroy Black's postion fails 0 Sc counterblow: I8 dxes? he 19 Wns rest 8 O86 19 Qbe8 We7 20 Ler dG 2 Les as moan one) o_o fea] " wawa@ Top League! 33 Preparations for this move by 2 ws om 74 would have facilitated Blacks 30 Waist defence: 0 30... OI 31 Heb gh 32 2B awgst ps. ‘The beginning of @ decisive ows om nach, 234" alo sms good: 23 32 att ih 24 Wed 15.25 ef Cate 26 32 Oc7 also wins, burt wanted Galow Bath 27 ENG Wal6 28 to conclude such a game with 3 (Gea! db 29 Wo7= a 30.DH5 direct atack swith avery strong attack. 2 eee Ne (On 32. W6 there could have ows OS followed 33 HE diet 34 Wes as Oygs 13S ExIN=! AMS 36 DI64, oF “the most obstinate defence, Mi. 8 35 Der dk (39 since immediatly losing are both Ge7 36 BIT) 36 Bice6+ 7 36 3S... Kids 26 Exist and 25 (Wok 37 HAIN) 37 Wags Dass ich 26 Whi wiv 27 SaeGt.” HAIMA ek 39 DeTs sha 40 26 RIS gee e841 Drab ete “The sacrifice ofa second bishop Monn Oe finally destoys the defence 331, OFT 34 BIT WHIT 35 26 ws x7 Bel+ 36 12 HEL 37 ed After 26°0ef 27. ©d8 Wes 28 ExI7 alo leads to material loss 6 B16 29 WhT tN 30 c7+ is alter 38 wh decisive ad Vows of AS BMG RAI6 36 GeGs Geb 37 a Das wes OMler 10 Top League 'A 5-year Old young man could find hisemergence into the Top League, the final tournament of the championship of the world’s strongest country, a daunting task. He was to fave seventeen international litleholders = sixteen of them grandmasters. One had to strike a Dalance between awe and confidence, ‘There were three specific targets in the Top League. Naturally to be frst was one another was that he fest nine players would have places in ‘the following (17th) Top League. If that became impossible there was 2 ‘ced to avoid ending in the Bottom theee positions these woul be east back into the next Otborochnl and at leas to stay inthe Furst League ‘Gary sarted with slid draws against Geller, Bagitov (perhaps missed chance thers) and Makarichew. Wins over Polugayevsky and Kuzmin in rounds four and six aroused dreams. But the next thece rounds constituted a bad patch — losses 10 Timoshehenko and2M Top League! Razuyayev, The need t battle to survive had the effect on Gary of giving 4 natural rein to his talents and abilities: & win over Belyavsky (only onceded at an adjournment session after round 18), hard draw with ‘Gulko, and then a miscalelated combination % Mikbalchishin leading to a forlorn struggle ending on move 86, Played in round 4 G Kasparor-L.Polugayersky Siellan, Paulsen Bas HedeS3 O18 06 3d cd 4 Dxat a6 S Des WeT 6 02 BS 7 AUS LOT 800 G6 9 Oxc6 de Polugayevsky rarely plays the Paulsen stm, but he had specially prepared the variation for is ame with Kasparov... litt Investigated postion has been fexched. Gar is not perturbed And unleashes his own novelty. It ie true that it ture out t0 be defective, but inthe end. the boldness ofthe south pass off 10st More sti is 10 04 10 ‘wees Miter Wer 12 aS ert Bo Eres ge! Mouer Haw The experienced grandmaster commits an error. He. should accept the sacrifice, a8 ater 1d ah 15 shgs eS Whites hard pt to emonstrate its correctness. 885s Te tt Who 17 3 gh 18 ae? Worse is 18 Ys7? deca 1s Wyo 19 BaeT+ Dax Waheed? with an advantage for Black 18 wee 19 Qxd8 Wed 20 ny eds 21 Badis Ge7 22 OWS+ xd 2s sds he as Ens hr A dynamically equal position has been reached. The game should, in all probability, end peacefully ina draw, bat Polugayevsky ties for the win. and commits an 28 ahs aT 26 Used 2727 mad~ e728 Had Bg6 29: BES B62 G1) ee ear Mast Ser B2 Tek Ger Finally the knight enters the game, but at an inopportune time, Better was 32. Re? 33 edd S06 As aaTs he Hed ide 37 14 of 38 GR? shes 39 He? ba 40 Zed be AT be AID 42 Tred dings 43 Shs el oot oas Boe sce Ande, but even afer 48 deco 46 B65 Ack 47 Heas Black Toul be unable to avoid losing 46 ase So ri wan pao’ i in ist ne ofthe strongest players ithe wend. Ae Bug, ur later, he. rcaled” Polugayevsky smiled From round 6 G.Kasparov-G.Kuzmia Sp oo 1ebeS? O18 63 BS a64 ad 1650-0 e76 Het DS 7 ADSdOS ©3009 3 a8 10 he? of IL ad WoT 12dS el? 13 ad RAT LADS aS 1S ab ab 6 Sibd? OT 17 ‘AD? 6 1B ef CS 19 cd Gxb5 20 Bea fo 21 a2 GOK 22 ed £0 23 Oh? DE 24 Spd gt 2S Mh Wes 26 Syed ded 27 be Sho 2 Gat Bea 2) Panish” bishop re- enters the game. The black bright ‘nf becomes an object of attack » ad Top League! 38 wo gs os a1 Wa was Bt sks xed ‘The white knight must not be allowed 10 feach [5 33 xed gh Boe Gas ‘The attempt by this Knight to reenter the game ends in sorrow. 8 AN 36 Wiks Was? 37a! wT 37, Wned? i not on because of 38 ete hs 39 Ho! of 38 (@18 39 Wes pT 40 WIS! a7 di AIG ps 42 a? Weed 43 BG wes 44 Wass Dads 45 DIS mate 3B Be 8 39 wis) wer 40 Wen? Eas a a2 Lo From round 13 G-Kaspator-L Dorfman Spanish 92 TedeS 2 D3 Dc63 ab a64 kat 65 0-0 eT 6 Hel bS7 Bb3.d6 ch 0-09h3 Ab7 10 dd Tes 11 hd? AB 12 af (12 2) 12 ot (12 .. 8? 13 ab ab 1d Bas Basak IS de de 16x74 Gx? 17 Goss eT Ts Base ==) 13 dS ORS 1 cl c6 15 ab ab 16 xa “sat 17 de B4 (17 be IB Ded Exc6 19 Lat about equal) 18 kad hace 19 DA WHR 2g? (20 Hs 6 intending .. cB with a small fdsantage to Black) 20... e821 igh DAR 22 eS hg 28 Dngs Hed? (Feb 24 Das6 e258 OHS eri) 24s ae (4. eT 25 DHS Dh7! eo) 28 Wed OSTop League! 37 36. Top League WII) 28... DATE 26 ed GS 27 Sxdd cd 28 RAS 20729 hd Dados G9... Bags 30 hg Side6 3 a6 fg ‘Dach 33 Wes Wes 3 30 Axe fe 31 Wes dP Wed 2S 36 Het eh (BTH 38 Wee GAT IW hes 1 6th USSR Ch (Top League). T performance the Top League's an oustanding sportingachieveren is reasonable to assume that Garik will make further big progres. ‘Ths summed up Tal in an inte epee6 Banja Luka - First Leg Minus even a F ing Gary was given the AGE | opportuni to playin in Yugo eventin sed oPShten n whieh fourteen payers were ery god 16 international grandmasters. His _remar\ petformance ere. should. forever. ens (_____] the tournament amo the epics of chess dteee SUP EeiHPeagt ye! Browne, 4 brat Hemandere S| sph Spa ‘beat Marovié, 6 - drew with ~~ swith Matanovie (already sure of First placey. 13 - drew with Garcia randimaster orm!) 14 drew with Kurajes; 15 dew with Adora to Finish 2 points ahead ofthe nex. Ts there such a precedent in chess history? Robert 1 Fischer St Zurich 1959 (Sr to Tal Bors Spassky at Bucharest 1983? Both swete 16, Played in round 3 ‘Queen's Indian BR 1a4 206 2 e4 063 23 B64 28.5 S.dS Lai? 6 Wed ed (6. Be?) 36d de (More exact move orders To g68 Ged B97 9830-010 Le> 6) 8 Deh OUTED REA! eT 10 330-011 g2 eB 120.0 252 (2 bs is met by 13 bal: 12 RIB) 13 dD OMG 14 Bred RO 15 af! (Preparing 25, Ae}, et, F4and eventually €5,) 18... Sid 16 28 G7 17 eta6 18 O43 HDS 9 hy Slo 19. Sge5 20 D2! 20 ges A fantasti lin is 20-04 BS 21 abab 22 a8 Whe 23 c6 Anco 24 aS WoT 25 de Waco 2628 de 27 acs Wes 28 Geb vel 29 Brel Bat 0 hs b4(?)31 Ss! Bras 32 Wars hs 33 Zealt Dyck (iF 33. HG A Wel aed 85 I+ bh 36 ede and mates} MS ‘ds ato 38 Hes withsmodnered mate to follow. But the whole Variation fas to. be discarded because of 30. abl eT Mar kek 2 an Holding up 68 and. 68 Normal pay for lack isto bale Banja Luka - First Leg 39 to hold up White's eS. Browne seeks complications 2. est 1122... 5 234 Geal7 24 was ning WI, Zed, Eael, eS Strategically winning 2 aR Ne as et ‘White has the advantage through the possibilty ofeSandbecause of Black's weakened kingside, we 0s 25 ab ab 26 e5! yds!” (If 26 bbe 27 efor 26, de27 Sexes Gad 25 OxI7!) 27 Dade Sado 28 ed Was 29 Ges! Cina (1629. Ded 30 Sic6) 30 WAI Dred 3 aes ues 2 Axes Deb BB Wes Ones 331634 aot Bowes ot 3S ig? hee Though material is level and Black has good queensige pawns, the issue is decided by. White's more active pices and Black's Kingside weaknesses. Me Hay ba 34) 7 get ck W037. 6 38 Ber, 38 NTs! sik @ Ge ko40 Bania Laka ~ First Leg G Kasparor-D.Marovié QGD Orthodox Dor Ted e6 2-213 dS 3.44 O16 4 D3 eT gS 0-0 663 Dhd7 ewe es This is considered the best reply. On 7s. e6,8 Hdl proves unpleasant as it willbe dificult to achieve the advance ef-s 80.00 It is well known that & cd achieves nothing in view of § @xdS 9 xe7 Whet 10 a3 96 de @xcS 12 Rel Oxd3as in the Alekhine-Capablanca math, 1927 . ‘was 9 Sh katt ‘One ean hardly recommend this move, which weakens the position of his king 9" ed 10 ed descems ‘ote naturale. HT xed 26 [2 ‘Abs a7 with complicated play 10h de nis sky to accept the piece sacrifice. After 10. cd edhe 12 he @e4 13 Bed de 14 c8 Waite has a dangerous initiative 1 dct Shoe! Itisalready too latefor Ic After Zed ho 13 03 sal? 1 {eS tack 15 Bhs! White has the advantage 12 ast gf (On 12... Bx 13 Bel i rather ‘unpleasant, for example 13. ed I Gxt gh 15 Head Oxcd 16 gd) he 17 Buobes 1s Oe5! fs 19 pg e420 Hes Wht 21 a3! with decisive attack. 1 ke od 4d kar Black's position seems to bein danger, but if White act slowly, lack will ereatecounter-play on the queenside 18 ihs ad te ge She 17 Wa Guest 1 beth AA first | thought that Marovié would attempt to play 18. IS Ithis case the simple 19 2 gh 20 Wahi Wh 21 WS, however, would retain the White advantage ‘with 2 material bonus, 19 kd tS 1 Bess (35) “This isthe only defence to 21 {Bgt. Tt seems that Black has tured aside ll meaningful eheats but the following move clarifies the situation ue My strongest move ofthe game, and ‘pethaps of all 15 of my ourntment encounters, Ie a'hormible treat of #2-¢4 Mo te 21. fo does work because of 22 g8 nes 23 gi? xd 28 xd ads 25 (6+! wh 2 Bes vith an inescapable mate. The dire "method “of discouraging B24 also meets with a sttONg Tactical fefetation, for example 2h and3422 aashS23etthe BUEN Whe! 25 Be? at 26 Gas one 37 pl with 90 Sinforable defence against 26 rest MD Got We? ‘The problems of hesence re not solved by 22. Bab Beene Br D0 Bed nd he, multe Chveats (85, BadSt. Led) cannot te repulsed y Black. Wer ned fon 23, WaT 26 dS! est of MW odret as as Marovié defended byilianty in time trouble, however, and came ‘lose to taking the hal-poine ka de Wee he 2 nhs Wh a8 Wehr The simplest path to the goal was 28 Sud} Wied 29 xed 84730 defo 31 Ha7+ 54732 BIT xt 35 Bixho with an easy win 2 ak BD & — Sge 30 at fe a tare |A mistake, which should have ost me a hal-point. The simple 31 Bxes would have won without any real difficulty. For example: BT. BND 32 Heb? a7 U2 6, then ABHS+) 38 BA wie 3 Bxhs. ‘The move in the game which creates the threat of 3 abo looks reasonable, but Marovi€ finds an excelent reply Banja Luka ~ Firs Leg 41 a x Bringing his last piece into the bate and defending against the threatened 32 d= Thinking for more. than 20. minutes, [Was Amazed to find that a rect Win twas nowhere to be seen and decided to play on my opponent's time press ap wb? oN 3 But Nov Black has lt of check, bur the draw can only be obtained by a quiet move = 33. BUS! In this case White can either force a tas by perpetual check, or eaery fom the struggle. After 34. 807+ AGT 35 Kaa REZ 36 wel withan objectively drawn postion. But Black would. stil face many dificult "obstacles, This is well, Mlemonsteated bythe following Sariation: 36... Hdd 37 Heed Her 38 bl wb2+ 39 dal! Hd? 0 Ratt g7 1 Bars te 42 HIS+ HwIS 43 Labs, winning All the same, 1 think that Black plays accurately he has drawing Chances, ut Marovie now made mistake, ands a result the psvchological ploy turned out to be eect, Bate As ass GT 3 hs Here” Black overstepped. the tim iit, bois easy to se that, his postion is hopeless. The game taught me a good lesson. T lear hhow one hasty move can be cost Burt all's well that ends well,7 47th Championship AGE th 2545. Spartakiad, July 1979 Gary Kasparov played board 2 for the Azerbaidzhan team, ‘behind Grandmaster Bagirov and ahead of Master, Magerramos Korsunsky - = i the Spartakitd (USSR internal Olympic Games) held at Moscow: In the preliminary section Gary met Round I: AGipslis (6) Lama (2800) 4.23 2 bye 3 A'Veingold (0) Estonia 245041 © LiPolugayewsky (b) RSFSR 2635 1.37 S OAverkin (8) Moldavia 2835 yas With only 18 points from 36 the Azerbaidzhanis were placed in the thied final section fighting for overall places 13-17 Gay's results inthis fina Round I: bye 2 AKudeyashow (w) Turkmenia (=) 1.58 3 EMnatsakanian (b) Armenia 2428-133 4 MGosbinder(w) Tadshikstan “() 42 S. ABuinons(b) Lituania” (2410) Lt ‘The Ukraine Republic loss. 16 G.Kasparov appeared for the first time on a FIDE rating Hist, the 1.7.79 supplementary” Tis, sam won the Spartakiad, Azerbaidehan finshed overall 13th. Gary's personal seore was 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 Played in the preliminaries: G-Kasparov-L.Polugayersky Sicilian x0 Ted cS 2 218 do 3.d4 od 4 xd D6 S Oech e6 6 ed.ab Ted Seb sss Od? 9 Eg ger Mo Mows White has clearly demonstrated his prediction fora sharp struggle But itis not easy to create real threats against the black king. ver his army approaches the very [ates of hs opponent's fortress 1 ‘bles 12 Bixee nes Boe bs es Probably an inaceuracy. More inetesting is 14} and on a 7 18 Waal 1 14 however, then possibly even 15 ds!) ed 16 ed Oa? 17 WH and White's attack can become very sangerous 1 07 1s Gm Here, 109, 0n 15... bd, 16 Od! cd 17 ed Gat 18 Wed 26 19 he hg 20 00.0 is tempting 16S To eus | Suas+ a rn he ek 5) On 19 .. 6, 20 a5" is good. Polugayevsky pays very conv ingly and ivi no longer proper to speak of White's advantage In fact" White must be accurate, in order not ta fall into a worse Position, 47th Championship. 48 20 mes 21 ef ixgS' 22 Hugs xed 23 id? HES 34 ed Reed 28 de Hes Alter 28 5 (6 26 EhS Ba? 27 Bel the game would have ended na draw. Falling into. time pressure. Polugayevsky euins his Position with this andthe following 2 mel ast nos! he a8 ins The curious “sacrifice” of rook by 286 leadsto.n immediate Orage) 8 ID IY wed HSE fs the king cannot go to either the file oe the ele (because Of SAI6), or to U8 (30 sha? hg BD tt and... ha, ay)4 47th Championship Directly into the awaiting net! (Not 18. Wet as 19 Wed x46 20 He had to play 28. diag 29 BI Weed 21 oe Bgl+ ih? 3016 Hp alter which 31 Bah6+ would have given White the better endgame 29 tet An effective winning stoke! 2» at BO dS BEE 31 gad Rete 32 ‘nds Zeb 35 Eke SIS dd Bld 38 ces eS! 36-86 Bet MT eb 1:0 19 S81 & Hae8 20 Glo He7 21 UGS 22 ef a8 28 Sind HT 24 ¢- Kasparov-A.Butnoris Bes ne (IF 24. Do7-25 gs Bogo-Indian EN BHT 26 Bes e627 Was wins.) 38 Vdd B62 ef eb 3.018 Ads dM De7 26 Wels ee IS 27 of G2 04 Se86.6 Rad8 7700 Had6 (Or 27 05 28 Wes Gh? 65843 and2 9 0429 Dr.) I ipef 3 YS! Hal+ 31 BI A) 9... Qba7 Wed KadS(10..ed 11 287+ HII eT eS 30 BaMKel bE) bd e812 Bel! ed (12... SM Buds Bade 32 WAS He7 3 AMS 13 WAI cd 14 ed 2/4) 13 Wed oho 34 Bard (34 TW IS Gadd eS 14 a6 (14 ez" Ded 38 BACT WS 6 Udi) M...DeO Is kel do! “V4. Ged 8 Bet WeH de 36 Whe sous 37 D+ Wes? (15. de 16 ed VISE OS WA WL 39S MeO IT Ie De8 18 Sg3 Oras 33) WED 40 gh Wel~ 41 SHS 10, ‘Top League, 47th ‘One has to be impressed by the inexorable progres that characterises Kasparov's career. Gary confounds those of us who char junor'soverall rise asa burst upward followed by a plateau of consoldation, followed by a new thrust, new plateau and so on, Gary continually progresses. For him to stand sill would be to fal. Ta the Top League (Ral tournament) of the 47th USSR individual championship held in Minsk, November 29 = December 271979, Gary feceived he thitd place bronze medal, He had been th in the previous ‘event (Chapter 5)" AUthe start of the Minsk event his expected score (based purely on his Soviet rating f 2510 ~ 36 below the championship average) was 7-6 points. So Kaspato made 2.4 points ext Gary beat Tama Georgadze in round one. Commentator Salo Flohr found the game puzzling. No sacrifices. Kasparov played ax Karpos, a: Peivasan, But very efecively. In round 2 another masterly positional ved round 5 ofthe final: 7th Championship. 45 win as Black against 2€3 v, Sicilian specialist, Evgeny Sveshnikow. A tery disciplined version of Kasparov? Then in round thre, this (Kasparor-A.Yusupor ‘Span cao Petes? O13 6.3 25 264 Bs 6 5 0-0 Dred 6 44 57 3 dS Bae es Atle investigated continuation whichis not atl bad. 9... as teas considered to be a suiiient response, but in Kupreichik- Shutsky, USSR 1979, White had an advantage after the simple 10 Gas War 1 Wer Zxbs 12 2b m8 hs? eT 13 4 Black defends unsuccessfully Se eT Unsuitable was 17 hs 1 fp 10 Siar 00 2BuS 1983 5 20 Tsi7 hg 21 Wed! ne Dut bette was 17, keS> 18 hl Inolensive is 11 @xe4 de 12 Hes Axeo fe 3 a2 Was 1 Wes 18 zat WIS ‘ees 13 Wred Zads. Besides. 19 tp Bes this variation Black has the iner= 19... Wxgs 20 a7 leads to ‘sting poruiblty 12. efreg 13 difficuit ending. Taking on eS ds: Ges or 13 Was bs 14 leaves Black with the hope of Weds avs 15 63 5, ‘equalizing the game in the event of 1. Bet the tiniest inaceuracy by: White In my opinion, more promising Thus 20 2x7 Shs! yk nothing, was IT. Dad 12 Wad? WI?. or 20 HES We3+ 21 hi Bads 29 12 Gre de Hell Bhs. Beast ef 20 Bdert West In the endgame arising after 13, 21 ght Bad? Wrd5 [4 dds ef 18 res fe 16 This loses a piece, but is very xed ads 17 a4, White has a dificult to point out any kind of leat advantage, This was aleady useful continuation for Black demonstrated in a game from the After 21. Hack 22 BS Wd 23 Alekhine-Teichman match, in EMI xi? 24 ght GW 25 gl Berlin 1921" As! 26 Wess eT 27 WAT MWe fe ‘Gas 28 Bal Bel+ Black has good 1S Wag? War Grawing chances. Stronger 8 23 16 het (39) hve RS 24 Bar7 MIT 25 746 47th Championship IK 26 High with an unstoppable b3 HS 31 hg? aS attack, White also has a decisive 3 BN attack afte 21 422215 806 The simplest method of breaking 2 Hell up Black's tightening resistance 22 Em We 2 EA 28 was Wee D4 re) Beds 2S 38 shgdad Ld RatT nt7 35 ch ‘BndS hg 26 Wes Gre 27 ded Gx686 D323 IT edhe Ihe GIS. Bas 28 wacT WS 29 Hed HAS MO GANS shod 40 ng Gad AT ALD Six successive draws came from rounds 49. Neat in ound 10 Gary blundered away what should have been a decisive advantage and lst to Konstantin Lerner, then he survived pressure to beat Rafael Vaganian, tone of the Soviet Union's mas talented grandmaster. Gary was then Shaken by a loss frst to Yuri Anikayev through an impulsive move followed by a further one to Aleksander Relyavsky by a good postion {going sour. He pulled himself together to finish with wins over Viktor Kupreishik and the 1978 lunior World Champion, Sergei Dolmatov, 4nd draws with Yusi Balashov and Mikhail Tal Gary had scored four wins, six draws and only one loss against the eleven grandmastrs in the Skara Teams Basing 1.1.80: Kaspason 2595 (Karpow 2725) Gary Kasparon’s score (91.6%) and quality of AGE | pty. when e played forthe fist timein a fall USSR. 16 | team (ol 8 players, 2 reserves) a second reser “inthe final of the Eusopean Team Championship at Shara, Sweden, January 98D ~ helped lift is team 10 a clear’ cut viclory (USSR 36/19! Hungary 29, England’ 28/4, Yugoslavia 28, Bulgaria 271, Coecho- slovakia 26, faci 29 and Sweden 23!) despite some surprisingly lack lustre performances within the team (Karpov #0=4-l, Tal 0-#-1 Pettosian +0°5-0, Polugayevsky +3-3-0, Giller +2=4-0, Balashow 4254-0, Romanishin-+392-1, Vaganian +3°3-0, Yusupov 43=1-Dand Kasparov 5-1-0), Gary's details Round To S.Webb (8) PNG 2025 2 Since (by HUN 835 3 N.GRenman (w) SVE 2s $N'Spinidonow (w) BLG 70 5 Pay 1b) CzE 9s 6 did not play 7 Mvukid 0) we is about equal Torre Attack v King’s Indian AS Tks od VDE 962 dd Oe 3 das Se 5 was 00 4 ObdzeS Saale Axf6 9 eat 6 Del dd Deb 10 WA? dS 11 He 6... B67 Dxlo+ Wal ed bs48 Shara Teams ° bee 0 Bw Bed es net Bever is 12 €3, eg. 12. a6 13 ed Was 14 O40 Habs 27 2. ‘whet 1 Bar 1113.45 SexdS [4 od Oa 15 Hal e5 6 de fes! 17 Bade Exch 18 sed Dek 1900 Wad 20 Raa Bxe? » OF 13 ge? Dall 14040 Bact or 1a aN, 1 be E15 of IS 16 Waal (16 Fa? are! *) 16 Badd 17 Beat Eats =, while the immediate 1564 can be met by 15. Op4, eg. 16 SM Wet! 17 xed Ged Ik Ba Dede 19 dP L020 Ores IS! F Bo te Not 15 16 Que 05 17 Sed eI 18 Weed WAY 19 (hu2 Ws only drawing 16 2ds ads 17 Weds+ Ger 1s ‘00 Now Black, if White's efforts 0 liberate his bishop and penetrate with the fooks on the queenside fain be contained, would fave a clear advantage. Kasparov now Suggested 18 Zr6h meeting. 19 Dé with 19. bs 20" Meas 21 Bab? Babs as the way - ed eos Back? twa 20 xb Was 1 Dw? tet a2 har het Not 22... 'Wa7? 23 gat as “wai? Instead after 28 a2 e524 Hb3! 1WcS.25 HOS Black has difficulty avoiding a draw, Be shat 24 HoT BfcB 28 ch Teck 26 ‘Wb Wes 27 Wh2? (Already ime- Uwouble, Beter 27 EbI +) 27. ‘Who! 28 Wel gS 29 Las e6! 30 ge?! hg SI at 1631 maD Ros! =F, en Even mor planning. 32 We2? Somewhat better 32 We but then sll 32. Bh, Bake 33 Wad et 4 a eS 35 Wed gs So SM gfe 37 902 HL 38 841 ‘Wed! 39 WreSfe40 Hed PnediO- G.Kasparon-Piby! Grinteld pas Td8 O16 2 c4 96.3 eS dS 40d DAMS S ed Och 6 be Sg? 7 ons Bet Usually 7-05 067. 008 ed eS ae played B Rss ob 9 e400 10.00 a6 11 Bras ery 2 tat Simpler, probably, is 12 eS WaT TS U2 where the strong entre and unfortunate position of the Sab sscure am advantage for White 6 15 Habs ‘A natura and practically forced move Indeed, 16c4 wasthreatened fd oa the preliminary IS ho, 16 ‘Bed is unpleasant 16d If even one preparatory move, say 16 Hedl, then itis easy for Black to seize the initiative with Ie 16 Axes 17 tient 18 od 7 ‘Thestrong passed pawn andthe unfortunate placement of his opponent's pieces compensate White for the smal material loss Misnoteasy for Back iodefend: if We. GT, then 19 eT ies 20 Wa? and on 18. bs White has the choice between 19 Wed 3g? 20, {BS gaining the pawn, and 19 he wth an attack 1d 64) ‘White would haves pretty good Position after 20 4, but I much Preferred a more energetic and Ieresting continuation 20" dm Other possibiiis: 20... ads 21 West bh 22 Gest fe(22__ tg 23. O74) 28 Beas Baas 24 Wes Skara Teams 49 eT 25 WET BOS 2 Hos: 20 bs 21 Wb3+ She 22 es! ke (22 fg 28 asW) 23 48W axes 24 Hag Hed8 25 Bad with an obvious advantage for White in both cases, wets aN 22 Bags te 22 dd Toses immediately because of 29 Bad cd 24 ads shy8 25 Bee 28 Be6 eT Again forced. Bad is 23 abs 2 i Ob 25 Bae Bvt 26 dBW Oxd8 27 ads. 2 ON EN 2s aus ‘The endgame fier 25 Wxes ‘Wrght 26 up? be 27 Hb? Deb 26 Bas Of" 29 ot Ads 30 Bixa7 is clearly better for White, but { wanted more. 2 eT 42) Black's difcultes ae ustrated by the variations 25. WON 26 bd Wdb 27 Heo a7 28 bt, Which i almost zugzwang 25, ‘ak 26 ha Wa6 27 Wess es 38 ‘We2 (not letting out the queen) 28 “Bah 29 Tags t! 26 de ads 26 Bed loses: 27 Bastxd 28 WIT WS 29 dS Dds 30 Hal. 27 Wes+ oes 2 ay te wel he io wu The forcing variation has con eluded and White has regained hs Piece. Inthe position that has ben created Black's best chance was 30 eT 31 Wac? Wael 32 Exc? BRI we (ah as M4 ad) 4 ee ie 35 Bue Ane 4 Bel White shouidreaize hs advantage. Quite neapectely, Black gets mated! wv wae? Mena) te 1 Ee x a awake wa a maw ea ea 9 Baku - Second Leg Gay duly grined his second and final norm for 17 the International Grandmaster title when” the fonportunity arose in the event organised By the USSR Central Chess Club in his home city, Baku, March 29 April 181980, (FIDE grandmaster titles are awarded for appropriates scores according to’ the oppositions Strength in two or more category 7 or higher tournaments in which & {otal of at east 24 games are played) The average rating of 2487 made Baku 1980 ry ten uurnament which meant that the score needed fora grandmaster norm was 10 points. As when making his first norm at Banja Luka 1979 (Chapter 6) Gary clearly overulfiled the tte norm and let no doubts as to his rights tothe tile52. Baku - Second Leg Played in round I: Kasparov-Csom Nimorindian Defence 1144 Sie 2.e4 66.9 Oe Added 8 5 Hered bed 00723 Le7 BAS 49 ed eB 10 88 eS 11 92 Isnt stiange that this natural move by the bishop isa theoretical novelty! Previously 11 Gad 18 12 die? was met, but how to play alter II" bot "The variation 12 Ges 13 dg? Rab M4 ed Deh doesn impress Mog ‘The attack ‘on the 12 square doesnt give Black any advantage Mh pt 120.0 Wie 13 4 Oxo 14 He? att 15 duf2g8 16 See te, while after 12... @b6 White fan choose between the tempting pawn sacrifice 13. Sed Bxed 14 Bret Qa 1s Bu gx 16 Ged and the simple 13 Wel Rok kts 1300 Ghar ay) ‘This simple movers the primary cause of Black's later difcultis, Th Det [4 Gad dT would Probably have given him reasonable piece play gt ‘The unexpected advance ofthe pawns on the kingside i fully Jushtieds it seriously restriets Black's knights (even without this move they ha limited manoeuvring possibilities} and promises to over brow into serious attack, On top ff thatthe bishop on eS cannot take part in the coming battle Tee ed 1s ph Bg 16 agri 7 gs S67 woke Ges ‘The last chance to generate any counterplay was connected with the moves 18. He8, 19 5, 6 and 20. GS 19" St [Now Whites theeats are clearly arawn: 20. Deed and later, oF immediately, 27h, oF 213 and De, 19 6 20 Deca fp 21 RxgS 6226 07 23g DAT 24 26+ Oxf 25 ext 1c is difficult 10 say where Black could have played ‘more stongly, White simply throws his forces onto the kingrside, White ‘Bow thteatens to win the bishop ‘with 26 b4 2 WS 26 abe 2 ow Bes OB On 29 um? 10 A complicated struggle from round T Gcasparov-L Zaitsev QGD Tartakower System DSS Padas 2ebe6 3 ch 16 4 Bes eT Se8 006 OF ho 7 And be “This system was introduced by sqTarakower and developed by IBondazevaky and V.Makogono.. [Now & W3 is recommended But P decided upon a complicated plan with long casting 8 We aby 9 nfo Salo 10 cd ed 110-00 5 de" oan Earlier theory based om 12 .be 13 Oxds fend 14 kot OAT 15 Buds Hbs 16 b3 had given thisas satisfactory for Black but this Picture had been altered by the times LapenisA Petosian, Spa lakiag 1979 and Garnkow-Lputsan, USSR Young Masters Ch 1980. In the first after 16... Be? 17 hl {2p6 18 Best eT 19 Hes White Lepr an extra pawn and established 4 block on o4, The second game Continued 16. We7 17 Bal ies When, instead of 18 2 played, the obvious 18 22! (with ‘Nock on e4) would give White a Visible advantage, aturally the tea of 12. 47 would find a sympathetic brain wave. Indeed in Lapenis- Klovan 1979 after 13 cb. Wxb6 Blacks initiative offsets White's ‘minimal material advantage, Play ‘against the isolated pawn By 13c6 Bromises lite: true in. Niktin= Kirpichnikow, 1980, White gained the advantage after 13. seo 14 Bad Ab 1S be? Wes 16 sebl eS 17 gt “Has 18 AF bur Black's play can be improved Baku ~ Second Leg 5 (interesting i 15 a6 t0 be {ollowed by .. D8). Im analysing 12 =. 47 1 had reached the conclusion that with 13 2d it would yet be posible to wrestle an advantage 1h Zxds Daes Attn 13.0 He8 the moves M4 OviGt stb 15 Sad? a0 16 sh vcS 17 led ae practically forced and if Black now grabs the pawn by 17 WES White's threats grow by 18 gh Bes 19 dt bs BO Wes! g6 120... be 21 aT for 20 #5 21 ha) 21 Zager! Wags 23 aI Be 23 Has ten. But stronger 17. Ics ‘when ‘White can enter a gueen fending with an extra pawn after 18 Rhdt Exed 19 Wdkt ud 20 Bads+ Weds 21 Bret bur after 21 WES! without winning chances, Twas. contemplating fier 17 .. Rfe8 the difieult to ‘valate 183 bs 19 Bh Be 204, 14 det 114 1S Wes! 15 Daxter ef 16 ‘aye Hack 17 G1 Ged withthe better play, bs 1S alo 1S Axbs dLxdS 16 Set is met effectively by 16. Sed! 17 Bx Piha 18 We? Hack with White's King ia a vice n wate Te Ras Bac 17 bt Bat We ds 19 ads (45) ‘The menacing position of the knight ata gives Black counter- play. Can White consolidate? In56 Boku ~ Second Leg my analysis [had considered now 19 Wer 2064 Wg Cand 2 Bled 20 el Wg? 22 Hxbs) 21 gi Wh3 22 Hyd Wes 23 Bas Wis 24 D5 ax = elt A briliant ‘move threstening both Was and .. Hb# as well 2 preparing BEC. ‘Now 20 Bibs allows a dreadful attack, eg. 20 4. les 21 DeS Woo! 27) Bact Babs 23 Het xed! 24 Bred e+ winning my queen, 20 Ga is weak because of 30. 6+ and 21. Wag? White's reply is force. 20 Kae Se 2 shat 1621 Was? Des and now: a) 22 Wed Wyse 23 seal DOI+ 24 ab elt 25 Bxcl_Rncl+ 26 a2 WbI+ 27 shad ast wins as alter 28 Hast #h7 29 OpSh deo 30 Ho6+ f% White bas un out of good checks. 1) 22 xed d3 23 Sxckt HT 24 Bed Wes ‘After 21) Hct be defence is sie, 2. gt? [At fest sight the position ater 21, Hed 22 Wee? Hae? 23 de? scems favourable for Black; with 23 Wyo 24 ef xp? 25 es sid 26 1d? Wred Whi Kkingside disappears. But Whi previous plan was not so bad; 28 {Ga2! Bixb2 25 Bel Wag? 26 e2 ‘Keeps grip on events. With 217. a6 Black regains ‘material parity, but 22 Was age 23 wis Suddenly White switches, un- furling his own considerable silty ‘Now Black should fight to draw by 28... Wy6 (though 24 Bas+ (GN? 25 ago fg 26 DeS Belt 27 Bixcl Hd 28 b3 ©b6 29 He7 is 23 nm a4 ice 1628 Bgl Bes! 24... N12 25, Edd Weed 26 Bagh and mas) 25 Wed ica! u et 25 wise tam 26 ds! e727 Oxds 27 BOs? eset) 27. Hed 28 6 HS (5. dogs 29 Wes ih? 30 Wed and wins the rook.) 29 We8+ e7 BO Wes Se and OST WaIT> GeS 42 HAS mated The woman world champion, Maya Chiburdanidze, had closely tailed the two leaders until her encounter with Gary ia ound {1 King’s Indian Ber 1d 26 2e4g63 03 AT 4edd6 5 G18 0-06 gereS7 Be8 He RIS gh 9 a5 1610 RNAHS ILS OS 2 OR ost “The Women’s World Champion has carried out the opening stage Of the game quite successfully: Sow Black can plan operations on the queensie without worsing about the hingside (324g [She {Br with a later. 6 is quite pleasant for Black), Bon Gn To no purpose! Correct was 13 a6, then DCTs Bel preparing 87-65 1s he By 14 4.185 15 ig) hd Black could “lock” the kingside. but ater 16 2h? Ob 17 Ded Ses 18 5 24 19 AF White.by continuing ‘gl, Bhd, a3, i ete. would have Served the initiative on the queen see 15 anget 8 He axek ses 46) 17 oe W617 3, then 17.15 18 eet With easonable counterplay. The Positional sacrtice of piece Yields White a strong atack along the geile, in the face of which Baku — Second Leg $$ Black islimitedto defence without counterchances, a sh 1s iS aw Abit better is 18 BER, although this hardly has substantia ‘meaning, as White wil exer om in the same spirit as inthe game: 19 Wes gS 20 Gabd Dao 21 OS Der 22'b4 HHT 28 Hel Bes 24 $2, 19 Wes gs 20 Givhd e721 DES a6 22 Bd OWT 28 Beh WM 24 ed ZaT 2846 26 WHS Gh 27 go 4728 Eel ab? 20 pd Hbc7 30 3g? Hb? BE GAT Eat 82 gh O73 Ger ck Mo 34 Deg} BIN 3S BHSt also ‘would have won: 35. @AT 36 “Dade WHE 37 OAT AIT 38 IS Mo ks 3S ah ab 36 ch Stab7 37 BS 8 (47) a@e@e@ se 38 WHS! Cxg6.39 hg EB 40 gh “ST, ‘lack resigned without waiting for a eeply.10 | Junior World Champion AGE 17 ‘Young players who become acustomed to meeting adult eandmasters often encounter difficulties in Seriously applying themselves when they return 10 Competing im a junior event, Ask Nigel Shor But Gary, uterly convincingly, won the 19th World Junior (under 2, 1.980) Championship organised at Dortmund, West Germany, AUgUSt 1731, 1980 Junior Werld Champions, Dortmund 17-3181980, My Pes 6 7 89 0 Rew 1 GXasparoy URS 2598 # Ie TTT 3 a, pNstn ENG DOE TO Se BtMon CHE BBO Hs Sw 1 Os Seo Tanewlsce ROM EID ne OTK Bh wy SRpecbott FRG « ys GRAkewon SYED 0 0 1 T ' fos F Matempone ARG 2238 001 1 68 ASDanslor BLE BS 0 wut Ses 9 Tks HUN 20% 80 Rak ast wo a oe oe (5 rou, Sistem) ‘alsoon& B Zager SW2, C.Hansen DEN, 1 Armason ISD and D Barus IND. Kasparov bea F Caypers NUD 6, P Getbert FRG 71s and C.MeNabSCO 6, sand dtew with B-Toeo CHI (2265) 7. Played in round 6 G.Kasparo¥-R.Akesson He? 30 c6 WA8 367 sine7 32 fe re7 33 Lhel Gas MTS BS AS GITY GHB 36 ZeT LO Played in round 10: G.Kasparor-G.Hjoeth QGD, Tarrasch bat Lads as 2che63 OScS-4edeA S83 eb 6 gd OMG 7 Ded eT 800 oo 9 gs Kasparov now prefers9 de-see Kasparov-Gaveikov, Chapter 16 Strange though, since this game amounts to virtual refutation of Black's next move, o. ont Pethaps ot dubious, since it was believed befully playablest {he time. Now itis considered that Black must play 9. cd 10 xd RG Uke} Hes or 1. Sas, Which ‘gives good chances. for equality 1 Se heb nom Byes oft Junior World Champion 57 Ksparos’s novelty. The fighting nature of the Tarrasch is sell ilustated by. Azmaparashelic [putian, USSR 1980-12 de da? 13 laf 14 he de ISbe(IF15 sxc 16 sxe? Wre7 Black has excellent compensation) 13... Woo 163! (Ce Eh was played in Rubinstcin- is, San Sebastian 19121) 16, ‘@xc}+ 17 GL AKI with astanc Srugale ahead, which Black won bet 112. Gg 13 axeT Wae7 14 8d? Had 153 Oho lo es! and White has a great advantage. 13 xeT Sued Te he Wee? 1s ett (On TS a4, Black can limit she damage by" playing 1S. 15! although White stands better. 18 wa ew The hasty invasion 16 Whs lows Black to create counterpay ‘vith 16. BS! 16 tas 17 wns An interesting plan is17 XDI” eg 17 Buck 18 BOS de 19 xed fd again White has a cleasly Superior postin, 1 Back ie BM Ber 19 af Now White's attack is getting ready to rol 9 war Black blenders in a dificult positon. Relatively best is 19 ‘Wes!? 20 hd ne 21 ed Bxds 32 BxdS HndS 23 Bee ge 24 168 Junior World Champion 118, although even here White is u wes: better Perhaps White as i re 20 5 WadS 26 WaT IS 2 2 ed Sd i no beter The only’ move, since 20 a Bat xdS 20 Sind HudS 22 EXT is dust a ltl bit more ef obviously u than 26 Wxh7 N27 Wh se 1m i ko {W] Positional domination in ound 1 & S.Danaito-G Kasparov 5 a King’s Indi ro B) Lek gor OE e739 er do4a4 23 fe Se4 0-0 6 sed oS 7 de de 8 Wath ad 9 gs Cibd7 10 Sas Black needs just a single tempo cb M1 T+ iW 12 eB lve to bring hs queen ack into the 13 B00 eS 14 anf xl 15 Aetence aller which heis no worse. dB a5 16 hel eR 17 AIT 2a nce Ieesatl9 This sacrifice gives White the 21 ud ine nec tp Toes hs Rootes wins, while 23. g6 only created titional problems after 24 Wha 3a nt e a precise destruct ely the struggle would ha been prolonged by 24... ick. 24 iid Wad 25 HAM looks good, 28hy he 29 Hed ONS. Gt is but again Black hanes on for a Oh while: 25. gS! 26 Who ‘White isin zugewang,11 Malta Olympiad AGE ‘As must be expected of any self-respecting second 7 reserve of one ofthe strongest teams ian Olympiad "World Teams Championship — Gary scored heavily inthe Olympiad vallanly staged in Malta, November 20 - December #1980, He won eight and ‘ew three; his one loss came when Georgiev (Bulgaria found an inadequacy in Gary usually well prepared opening repertoire, Round fs = - VEN - - 2 TNatsis b GRO Re 12 3 PRoth b Ost 200 1st 3 SMarjanovig JUG 2490128 5 K.Georpey ww BLG 2855083 6 Glligterme DL 2855128 7 1.0m w HUN 25100 423 B JSpelman WO ENG 2890137 2 2 ck | - 0 Meturson ISD 225134 Ti Shamkovich = W-USA 2815.34 1 SGurdelh — wARG 200132 1 TGhitescu ROM MeO 8 M4 CHansen w= DENS = “33 2and Reserve: Nikolié (JUG) 64/8 1.25%, Kasparov 94/12 - 19.160 Results: USSR 39, Hungary 39, Yugoslavia 38, USA 34, Cschoslovakia 32, England 52/5, Poland $2 82 counties. ‘he Valleta Oiympiad wil be remembered for the grim strugale for first between Hungary (1978 winners) and the Soviet Union. The table below depts the round by round bating. The USSR team won on 3 Sonnebora-Berger ue split oe SE ESE. KB use Diese 1 ast 4 SENeeay Ble 3 hur we het y nr et 3 Via ano bike is nuncary 1 tee as baw? ise Be Simm. ie GKasparoy-S.Marjanovié ‘Queen's todian eI 164 24624063 St3b6.443 207 S gt e7 6 0.0 0.0 7451? od 8 ht 69 cd ads 10 OI This variation became popular after the 1th game of the match Poluayevsky-Korchno. In return for the sacrificed pawn, White Feecives an active position with ‘ood chances for an atack. Alter 10. eS TL 4 Ge? 12 xg? Sue 13 be bs 14 wade 1615 Wrbs Polugaversky, exploiting S Malta Olympiad 61 Sb F USS the hopeless position ofthe black king, achieve bri 10 " 2 a 15 a8 « ot kts Bet ‘De? as is ot Das ware Black has. probably chosen a fully acceptable arrangement for his pieces, But is fast move was unfortunate, Better was 18. es, forexample 16 a6 8 17 Wed 618 dae? BacT 19 GxdS Beas 30 axdS Hxcl + 21 Brel Hes62 Mata Olympiad 16 ahs one 17 Gee ae sy 18 gs! [Now itis apparent that by his 13th move Black has drawn upon himse strong fire (admitedly i wasn't easy to foresee white’ 17h and T8th moves). There i already fo defence tothe multiple threats to the black king 18 6 19 eT We 20 San7? was 2 Wis 26 22 Wh eval 23.64 ‘Mate is inescapable, Played in USSR v Holland rovind 6 G.Kasparov-G.Ligterink ‘Qucens Indian ens 1a4 246 2e4e63 D3b64 83 07 5 ig? eT 6 3 Hed 7 RA? Lf 8000 0-09 cl cS 10 dS ed Hed Saxd2 12 Dad? do 13 Sided eh WI... eT 14 64 a7 15 ga with initiative on the kingsde 1 Wa ae 1d. Be? ~ Kasparov; M4 WT Ligterink! IS Ms geT TEAS os xed 16 E403 &b 17 Beit a5 tk Dado! Bxed 19 @xb7 16 be be 1 er Hemming Black inthe knight cannot go to 47 rn Not 17 2. e818 gl. Black could try 17 Bs oat Threatens 19 Bas. ee aso ‘Though after 18... WAS White «an continue 19 ial intending ‘Bbaves, 19 bl ads Alice 19. a7 White wins by 20 Dad Sd6 21 rds Wad 22 Wres. 20 ON ayes 2 ares Bat 52) 2 Det Gob 1622... Baes 29 WIS or 22 1Be7 29 Higby BIN 28 Dede! bs 2S ed 2h 23 Ou? Oxa7 24 ads On 24 le 25 Bb? wins material, A'gem of game, Encounters with Karpov 12 | rating st: naspator 2625 (Karpov 2950) AGE Four Teams’ Event 7 ‘ea spel ete in honour of the USSR Party Congest the USSR Chew Federation staged iran fou teams event Moscow, Febriary 25:28, 1981 “Teams played each other twie, Result: First 28/748, Young 2315, Veterans 23, Second 21. The teams comprised of USSR First Team: Karpov, Spassky, Polugayevsky, Petrosian, Tal, Belyavsk), Balashoy. Gell USSR Young Team: Kasparov, Yusupov, Pakhis, Dolmatov, Kochev, Mikhalehishia, Eputyan, Chiburdanidze USSR Second Team: Romanishin, Toeshkovsky. Vaganian, Kuzmin, Kupreichik, Rashkowsky. Gcorgadze, Makarichey USSR Veteran Teams Smyslov, Bronstein, Taimanov, Vasyukov, "Averbakh, Bagirov, Gufed, Suetin Kasparov played Round 1 O.Romanishin (b) 2590 13 2 ViSmstow (0) 2580 137 3 AKarpov (6) 2700 yal 4% ORomanishin (wy 2590 om 5 Vsmystov 0b) 2580 10 & Karpov (v) 2700 nat This event will always be paticulaey remembered forthe two fiercely contested games Between the World Champion, Anatoly Karpov, and Gary Kasparov(56 Encounters with Karpo Played in round 1 Kasparov-0.Romanishin Granted pas. Hdd OF6 2 ef g6 3 ed 48 4 cd nds Sed Dred be BETTS was 8 mbIEY 5 was 9 a Dee Incase of 90.010 Sel ed 11 cd Whd2* good is 12 Ded? ~ for a fine sstration of White's possibilities in that position see Karpov-Habner, Tilburg 1980. 1 ded Med watt 12 dxdt 00 White has the clasical pawn pair and bis king i the centre ~ plus and minus factors 'Now here White usually played swtomatically 13 bs but afer 13 13! Black obtains piece play, cg. Pltono--Tukmakow, Tashkent 1980, as improved by Chekhov Romanishin, 48th USSR Ch 1980, Mia Mtef AMS 1S ha bot 16 ‘Bed Brod 17 Bees HG i6 a3 E31 Tired to intensity White's hy ods ae 14 get Unveiling “at _an_ opportune moment White's plan which had Tain hidden in the store oom for nearly a year. Thelackof harmony for some time among White’ pieces is outweighed by the time Bained at the expense of Black's Keight. 4 ast (On aS ite knight is poorly placed except for the contra of 8nd limiting White's F-bishop, Tastead after 16. De5 15 OxeS BxeS 1614 (16 et 2) 16. ig? Thi White has a clear advantage Wd. Dba 15 a3! (15 42") 15 nad 16 Hed! e617 95 BUS 18 eS Bo 19 He? RbI+ 20 ded Eal 21 d6 Ad? 2 abst 10 Lovasi-Gy-Honfh, Hungary 1981 1S Ses! te 115. Sth 16 a2 D617 kbs; 15... Bait ie Tata Feacmik Dostmund 1980 16 ad? 6 White has gained breathing space. Black's bishop by being on Te holds up the advance of Black's ‘pawn and makes the undermining eb mote dllficul, but after Black develops by .. £67 or ‘Age this will become a deat White concedes a tempo to stop Black funetioning smoothly? IP er age 117... BaT? 18 we? b7 19 ADS Mads eo oF 18 Had"? xd? 19 Bas a. 18 ka 61 (53) ‘Opening the game when White's pieces (eg, Hht) are east effective 19 Syst 1119 eS? hxg5 20 Ops ed 21 ‘xt? Bal » es 19. ed loses material to 20 xf? Ha? 21 Oho? dg? 22 Bek Brck 23 cS eg. 23... He7 24 ings Bo} 25 eo! but 23. eo! folds out drawing chances. dont ed 1620, W621 13 Bxf322 2x03 ed 2bed HxdS 24 Babs Whites xtra pawn and to bishops give fn advantage, eg 24. Hed 25, Bel dod? 26 de? HAHN OD Exc 28 xe} Hua? 29 Hal ete af [New resents come tothe support of the advance guard ue et! 21. adds weak because of 22 ui! which enables. White (0 mect 22. Get 23 05 Bes (Cireatens 24. xe8) with 243! to introduce the last reserve (rook Ini after 24... eS 25 fe Hes 26 tz ib+ 27 aps Dna? by 26 hag! Bxg5 29 Bhs 1730 Ib? (€e8 31-8 mating This variation ustrates well the forces linking the white pieces nts Not 223 Be8 23 Back Benes! n.. at White retains a strong initiative alter the better 22» pt viz. 2903! ANS 24 Hag?t dag? 25 Debt 86 26 eft (Weaker 25 Gxds Hrd8 27 ef ct) 26... He8 2794 IT 28 Bes e729 ct oF 26 deb 27 fixed acs 284 1729 BeS+ eS 30 2! ete Encounters with Karpov 65 ‘The game stil full ofimeresting points, now becomes affected bY time touble. 13 dixas ba 23 eB 24 BagTt exe? 25 Bot 24 hed edt Bad are 24 .. Back 25 He7+ and 240, Has 35 Eval? Bxed 26 rab RM 27 Se6. en st % 26 dines? Ra2+. We Rest 27 bags 1627 sohs Ha eads 0 a draw after 28 HxaTt yet 29 Beas ‘7 30 a+ as We Bae a Ges Bred » Ie is not easy for Black to liquidate the mating possibilities, eof 29 o- eT 30 BACT xe? 31 GE he 32 es a6 33 Bel leaving Black without prospects 2» date 0 Hof Heb 31 Let e2 32 xs (G2 Best 32. Had 33.402 daz Me Oes ad (54) Looking for & mating climax,(65. Encounters with Karpov but the actual mates prove illusory 40g nyhae White can win sensibly by 38 The last move -a decisive ertor Sd climinating the. epawn, before the tine contol Romanshin 83 36 He? Bexe2* 37 should have played 40.2 and ye? ab 8 Hab or 38. a7 alter 1 Hxa? not 4d oe Mba? 42 ‘Dg3! (square conceded by 39 35 a3 hs) 420 eT (a2... Ebi 3 36 Eby ctw. ralw 44 Zh7+ dak as Bag6t More exact is 36 .. Ub2 as 37 647 HIV mate)43 giv doer Bg?+ Ghe 38 He7 BObE39 Hea? De6+ Sno 4S Wh¥ mating but Bak 40 nak Dus 41 Qd4a242 41. ah liminating Whites las Db3 Hb A Zableadstoadraw. pawn) 42 Hxgé alW 3 Zeal 37 excl Ey? Bhi 41 Bgl and drawing, 38g Gh A Lage xe 39 mT ks? 2 es Gah 39... 6 easily draws 8 aur To Botvinnik wrote in Komsomolskaya Pravda in 1982"... «few words bout the world champion. Karpov calculates variations very wel, But his main strength does not hein this. He exceeds Kasparoy by far inthe positional understanding of chest, When the present champion wis, ‘uite young he already displayed fine understanding of the positional Principles of chess play. Karpov has no match in the skil of placing the Pieces on the board. His pieces are esualy invulnerable while the peces ‘of his opponent are subjected to continuous pressure, In this respect, Karpov's syle i much beter than that of Petrosian who, having achieved absolute security of his postion, waits patiently for a mistake fom his opponent's part. Karpov does not wait: he plays actively.” Gary's fist one-to-one encounter 0.0 c6 4 Kel £45 9 0th (9 of with the word champion, played bs I ed? x02; 9 eK 9.43)9 la vound 3 ‘xd? 10 Wed? sxd8 TH ads Go ies WaT 13 Ata? a6 (13 G.Kasparor-A.Karpor ies (4 WS) 14 Ted Sach 1S Peteott CH Enel a8! 16 83 2x03 1 et iT axe | rarely play this and provide 17 Whe} leads to nothing because A-Karpos with a mild surprise, of 17. WHS! 7 s 7 ts 2 oh Se 17 G4 “does not directly Somewhat unexpected solve al Black's problems, viz 18 3 Ones ds ‘WS e619 hs 6 20 Bs Wes 21 408 Dred Sad eT 6 dB 487 Hees WaeH 2? Waes fe 23 Os! woxe an poshtly Its. Se? more xc in ive {ss eine Sura to ply 19 3 e019 Gieihao ws Suis gat a0cd 2 edt ain resure 19 Gaz eT tre, Bel 20 065 Hae? 21 seu e722 st Wag Sie of ade ed wah the beer rding though Black has Sraing Sam oon am awn ier Now! White bys angle advantage 2 04822 eh 6 ts coc, though, White hat Sihe posible ces) 3 ‘Seo at he He 25 Bab or Herz Bon Seah sca 0935 ‘he acdc 819) 2ocded Bm eT) 23 axe! Whe? a4 eas was 24. Hued 25 Oye Hel + 2% Gh Lage 27 gh dre) 28 BS {WoT 29 sg? isnot easy for Black Karpov's move. gives very teal possibilities of detending. 28 Cnet dae? Frcounters with Karpov 87 2 Wel aw 27 wean The critical positon. 27 e4, setting problems, is more energetic fone variation is 27. 862883 247 29g? ge 30. Hed! 15 31 Wa 869 32 WB ete Fa "6 28 a4 7 9bde2 WoT 30 Ze3 OT 531 Wee ds! 32 58533 Wed We 34 Wes WR 38 ene 38 Hell was the correct way after which lack unexpectedly tne short of moves, et 35 ‘Dhé, 36 Woo WS 37 ofl Wed 34 Wab7+ 17 59 BS! and the a-pawn cannot beheld back, but falter 35 5. U6 36-c41 Sxba 37 Zbl Was 38 cS Black defences Fold, viz 38... W539 Eb3.a5 40 HES Web al Enis Wxe6 42 Hxoh ad 43 bo cs 44 xb? al 45 Bal add 46 Bra} des as ‘ant 36 ed 35 Wed West 37 BS IS 38 dv he con hg 37 he O47 3 ed Ops 39 OS ‘Wat 40 Gas de at Sed y Wal, R08 42 ed (Abridged by RGW) From round 6: A Karpor-G Kasparov English a Ved 216 2 Och eS 3 O3e6.4g3 BOS dig? 67 6.0.0 Be? 7 dd ed 3 Wat Avoiding the simplifying that can follow § Dxda, The world(88 Encounters with Karpov champion was obviously ina Tighting mood — ed 3 a Black sltrs behind a hedgehog formation, 8 Nimrowitschian smal centre,simila to theScheveningen Setup, and tiesto provoke White {nto a Weakening advance while preparing varios ways of breaking ut (BS, dS. 5) possibly ‘combined with pressure against White's cand ef bastions and along the efile ~ ed 9 gs as 169. WOU xt Bato LE AD teatening fdl_ and/or 26S with initiative ~ ed 10 ext note 11 Wd3 Re? occurred in the game Grigorian-Karpoy, USSR Spartakiade 1975 ~ ed 1 00 11. BxcBleaves a6 chronically weak 12 tan eT 13 Bet xed 1325 (14 3) weakens a — oh ante 14 Wet aa ‘Now Black already has problems about the e6-square. Can such 3 tiny advantage be converted into Something mote tangible? IF possible, Karpov with bis fine command of piece play is the Player to demonstrate it. Bul Kasparov copes. ell with the sitficulties — Sato Flohr 15 dt Wea! 83 W 16 Wael eT 17 b3 bs. 16 8 17 as? White's plan isa general advance of the queen-side pawns inorder to fix the weak point at c6. The ‘minus side of thie is that st codes the eSsquare to Black ~ ed. 7 wes 18 da ate 18... RAMI? 19 a5 ba 20 dal Wes 71 Eas He? intending es. 19 ad Be? 20 Wet er 2 bt ahs 2 gam 22 DS! aS Gil 22... Bred 23 ba taxed 24 Qt £18 35 a7 oF 23 Daas 24 Bxbs) 23 Deo iH leaves White with some advantage 2 ec 23 bat Rather than yield the initiative, Karpov sacrifices a pawn. But after 23 Wb3 Black could have chosen between 23 ..05 24 FS ‘Gc6, with no insuperable problems concerning the cosquare, or 23 We0! intending. 8S 2 ab Me W624 bs a7 5 4 Brot 25 thet Ifthe interposition 25 6 then 25... Hae? 26 Oxel> hs! (Not 26. 8 27 Oxck re? 28 Il xe allowing the penttating 29 Wah?) 27 AAT Wes! 38 Ded {Eye¥ and Black has won a pawn, s set 2% Wad as 27 Was (04 27 WaT WT 28 We? Hc? 39 Mal OAT! 30 Hast th 3t 2 28 west The knight i buried, unmoved, con its original square? 8 » so art i a as? 29 Wo securing the back row is better e.g 101 Mba! Lads 32 a7 HOI planning Bo Wes Hod 3h set GE 31 as Belt 32 41 WdSt! win el? withthe superior ending Wel. or =) 31 Afr 30 a8? Za1+ 31 81 n6 32 Web d4 33 Het (not 33a? ‘Ws imending 83) 33 os Mogg? IN 35 He7 Wel 36 WaT h7 37 Was Wat IS (6 Hb} 39 digs We2+ Black's attack would have proved the roger Encounters with Karpov 69 » ot M Rab Tet 36) |B a Mem “li Awa wae @ (AW AM a! ww (a @ @ ew BAe lz Z The spectators followed thiscut and theust battle with mc stent Speculation as to the outcome, 2 eet Kasparov rejected the world champion’s proposal of a draw ~ ou Boma wes MoTak Wes Now Kasparov was prepared to70 Encounters with Karpov agree toa draw 38 ge? which KSzpov should accept = a So wae To meet 36 Ea? with .. Re? Time pressure is affecting play Later Kasparov found the stranger 35... Wb! eg. 36. Bay? dat 37 WaiTe hs 38 BTS v2 39 Hak gS! would win, white after 3613 hho 37" 2 HeT! Black would survive and have the advanta oi 36 ds ws To follow with 3 This is spectator chess at its best. Both grndmasters ae seeking to extract the maximum, Attack ‘counterattack, defence ~ involving tach king find their way across the board with the clocks relent Tesly ticking». = ed 37 dT he Aer the game Gary queried this and thought he should have played 37 =, G3 38 Wal? he Eg. 39 Hud} Wypes 40 Be) BES ‘ith equality, but an this after 39 ef hb Is forced while ater 39 WES White is certainly not worse — a WT Not 38 BM? d3! 39 Web 42, nonchalantly allowing. the tiscovered check = ed 8 en 39 est wht $0 got Forces the draw immediately. White could have tied 40 sp? — 40 g6 a What a Feast we are promised i these Wo should meet in a world championship match! ~ ed, Moscow Grandmasters Gary's introduction to the superar circuit (ike Tilburg. Bugojno, Turin high category events came n the category 13 average ‘ating 2603} tournament with a star studded fed headed by Word Champion Anatoly Karpow. staged In the Moscow Trade Cente, Moscow Intemational 424.1981 1 2 5 a Akarpor Vismyson cheorgh Viator ABalyaahy Smeal Eee 2608 is 490 soo 210 2s 3880 1 « oo ' o « ' no Indeed Karpov dominated the event from start Wimaster D with is finish Kasparov, by sharing second, added fuel othe growing opinion that he ‘was destined to Be Karpov's chief rival of the 1980s, ‘Gary exricated himself resourcefully, slmost_magically, ftom a sificult opening in round one Si Se 4 But72 Moscow Grandmasters A.Belyavsky-G.Kasparoy King’s Indian, Samisch” E83. ta Oe 2 oof In the top league of the 4714 Championship of the USSR. T played 2... c8 against Belyavsky, find obtained an excellent position Sensing that my opponent would be prepared for this continuation, Tueeided to play # King’s Indian, 3 2c gT ta a SB oo 6 ded Ob These moves were played in a quick tempo, Belyavsky always Chooses the Simisch Variation against the King’s Indian, and atthe time, I preferred the move 6 .. Geb. However, on the next two moves Belyavsky took 40 7 was 8 Sed Hes ‘This continuation canhardly be considered advantageous when Compared with the customary & bs, but T wanted to wake the {game off the beaten track 9 Set 9 he leads to sharper play. : ‘é wa Gas mStar White wishes to exchange the {da a all costs, but thie gives his ‘opponent addtional possibilities. U Mould have preferred 11 bi, after which Blick fs 0 choose ‘between the dubious pawn saciioe Th ave8 12 debe 13 Oxds ed 14 ‘Exit dS and a position which is slightly worse after 1 xb3 12 abes beat u s Re Gxcot This continaation would have ben inconceivable with the knight onb3. Here itis lopcl, since iis ‘ficult for White to explot the weak of Black's poston Beate Of his lagging development. The conventional 13 Hdl would allow Black to redeploy his forces with 1d, eb 14 Del Bek 1b Bast ‘The most energetic continuation, presenting Black with a dificult Ehoice ~ whether 1 defend against the threat dte}-b6, maintaining material equality, oF 10. UY 10 exploit White's backward develop: ‘ent, without concern for materia Tose Teonsumeda temendous amount of time: I hour an & minutes, personal record. After thinking for s0 long tcould not head for passive detence after 13... xd5 Ted e7 15 Sc3 or 13... Od? 14 bat, 50 T decided to sae the exchange TS... st 14 be 1 would’ probably have been better to decline the tojan offer with a more positional continu jon, particularly considering Dlack's ime pressure, eg 14 Dee} Bad 15 a (15 Bao Bus6 16 eb ab 17 QxbS? 98 much too dangerous.) Tn that case, however Black would have retained equa chances However, Blyavsky grabbed the exchange, considering that Black's Sxtvity would prove temporary. Ww ‘war 1s Sch bs Te Gack Baek 57) Here Belyavsky plunged into thought. A quick glance at the position sutficed to indicate that All was not so simple. White has a ‘wide choice of continuations which Seem, at fist glance, to be 800d, Detailed penetration ito the heart of the postion, however brings Black's resources to Tight Tet us look ata few variations: 4) 17 68 Black can sacrifice the exchange with 7 Gad? 18 ke? {de 19 abs Qdxbs, but he also has the unpleasant 17 Bb7! intending fs) Alter 18 de (AIS! 19 Wad (19 Wt6? eT aps the aueen) 19... seb 20 03 HaT 21 WT bs, Black's active pieces fare more than sufficient compen “ation forthe exchange, D}IT Re? MbT Is Gab be 19 as (19 e382 Ha 20-dbxed Was 21 Tl Sik wins apiece) 19. ee 20 Ded BATIU WH he 22 Bl ‘a with a strong attack om the white king stranded inthe centre. ©) 17 eb. L think this would have Moscom Grandmasters 73 ben the strongest continuation ven though 17. Zab6 IS be dt ‘would have given Black counter- play. In addition, Black would fhave had am interesting possibility in View of the opposition of his f4ucen al the white king 17a Teed dS 19 ed Dad 20 Bed for 20 Bad od 21 Wadd RIS, where ihe dark-squared bishop 1 much Stronger than the rook and two prawns) 20.0421 Oe QxdS with Slvely game Teng to avoid al the pital White decides 10 get his king fut of the centre as quickly a8 possible, but this gives. Black {ime to grab a pawn, activating his pees 17 es be Ge} hes 19 ger “The tempting 19 ds would thave presented Black with a rich selection, eg 19. Sexd8 206d BL xed O15 33 00 ef or 20 ERP DI be Bids! 22 Red Wes, fand finally 19... Gxdst? 20 ed cf 21" de Wscé. Black would The just two pais forthe ook ‘but the pawn avalanche in the centre and. White's backward ‘evelopment would have made the position unclear 0 fat woo as nod Oxds 2 Gus axes The complications clearly favour Black, who has a pawn for the exchange and much more active pieces. The knighton dis painful thom in White's side i74 Moscow Grandmasters not easy to drive it from its powerful centralised position, eg BSta) Dyed 24 Bae? el 35 Eat x2 2 ee oks 23 moves have gone by and the amount of time consumed has levelled, each of us sill possessing around 10 minutes. This explains the uneven play and the horrible mistakes inthe following moves, Moz Bes 2 an ks 26 Hel We6 (58) Here 26. FS should have been played 27 he? Here White misses a wonderful chance to get rid of the knight and quali the game, viz, 274 GES We Gre (28. res 29 HS gh 30 Sas dxast’ ST wads Woo 32 eS! h7 33 Bhes ds 34 Bent with perpetual chek) 29” Hye} (Black retains «clear advantage after 29 Wee’ RT 30 Eh es Ba? ani2 42 WAP ha) 29 6 30 6! eS C0 reo Bi Droop shot A732 Hear 8 (Definitely not Wx B1-Waho Zab? because of 34 “isc )33 Wah Be 34 WE? with a draw ‘All ight, i's not easy to work ‘out all these variations when you have only 4 minutes for 4 moves, ‘but nevertheles, he shoul! have ecided on 27 #4 27 a Bw ie ‘But now this active move leads only to disaster. 38 8} would have been better, defending aginst the threat of hé-h3, although even then Black's edge is obvious. 28 ro 2» tu kee os 130 eS 245, the black pawn cannot be prevented rom reaching edorendering futher tesistance BY ‘White usles. Belyassky sarifices 4 pawn inorder to ep some sort, of co-ordination of is pieces, but he 1s not able to alter the course of evens, Wo. Os Mad eh Not falling for the trap 31 sayb2? 32 Hats 7 33 Hine! 32 BA Now the stray bishop s doomed, but 32 digs Best! would not have saved White Bee Wes 33 GM es Mows Gh Here the game could have come to an end, but for the fact shat cach player had just one minute teh! 38 Eds ade Se Eade a 36. xh would have clearly ‘been much simple, a7 Ral oan 37 x ed would have been somewhat stronger, but the move in the game gives nothing away. wks y We One way of another, there just ign't any defence toll of these threats, for example 393 O13 40 hz De »” 3 0 Wel Oat 40 © 62! Would have put an effective end to the game. The fume scramble has finally ended and White resigned. The variation St Zot dS 42 Waizel intending Bech and... 3xg2+ is quite Sonvincing, By rune $ Kasparov had Spins, Portsch having escaped in round ftvee with a rw after facing a stormy counteratack, Escape Featured in Gary's games in the next four rounds. On the Black side of another Samisch King’s Indian, a piece down, he evalled fo get-away with a Moscow Grandmasters 75 This is a fine example of @ line-learing sacrifice, which can bye seen. to best fleet in the Kasparov-Yusupov game from the IBKT USSR Championship. As we can see from a number of Kaspatov games inthe. King’s Indian, material is not always 4 relevant factor in determining the fouteome ofthe game (ee especially Timman-Kasparov and Kavalek Kasparov from Bugojno 1982 — Chapter 19, 18 ed ot 19 Suds ‘An error. Both players had evidendly mibcaleuatedin the heat ‘ofthe battle, as the open Tine after 19 cot rally dangerous. If Timman had continued in that way Kasparov woul have tried 19 Bas 20 Was ef. but itis Moubttut that Black has sultcient compensation 1. Bas 20 Suds Wee Mow Both playershad caleulated this far. Gary was hoping for 22 2c alter which be would emerge with 4 substantial advantage following ba Geet! 28 xed Bal 2 Boa? Bre) 25 b3-d5!. Timman Siw this. and also noticed that Black would stand very wellindeed alter 22 0.7 is 28 Sack va? 24 Daa? Wh 25 ed of! There Tore he decided to repeat the position and agree toa dra. 22 Wo? Rabe 2 Way Taw 2a owa7 kane76 Moxcow Grandmasters I round 6 the usually very — mee. rational UIP Andeesson made a "Among Gary's thre short con- omantiesacifice ofthe exchange cluding draws was this last round fon move 14 to prove once again game” vests. Karpov, included his great tenacity by drawing on here to complete the record of rose 8S thei encounters ‘Gary over-pressed his winning jauack in round © aginst the sly G.Kasparov-A.Karpoy former World Champion, Tigran QGD, Orthodox ss Pettosia, and lost. Tad O16 24 c6 3 OF A5 4 ed ‘One of the great viewes of 67S RpS 66 Salo Anf6 7 €3 Black's Sicilian Scheveningen was 0-08 WA2 c69 ded 0 Le? AIS shown when Efim Geller over- 11 041 Qe? 1246 13 fel a6 14 feacted against Gary in round — ad W618 Wh? lek 16 WO 26 and was bested im a tactical 17 Had de? 18 515% Soviet Republics Teams 1981 “This championship of teams from all the republics of the USSR augmented by sides from Moscow and Leningrad was staged in Moscow, ‘May 16-30 1961, The teams of eight hoatds (plus reserves) were divided into two sections based on their 1979 results The top seetion results: Ukraine (Belyavsky -_) 43.29, Moscow (trot) 42s, Georg (Georpadze...) 40s, RSFSR (Spas), Leningrad (Taimanow 5) 37/5 Lawia (Tal...) 37, Byelorussia (Kupreicik ..) 34, Moldavia (Lutikov .) 315, Estonia (Nel ---) 30, land Uzbekistan (G.Agramav 24 Azerbaidehan played in the lower section, together with — an inaovation ~ second teams from the giant RSFSR and from Moscow and Ukraine Gary. Azerbaidrhan’s board one, had the best reslt om that board — (6%62/4His details (not complete through an oversight ~ RGW): KGrigorian 00) Kazakhstan Bes aon LYunayey () Kirgiia 20130 AKakagel diye (b) — Turkmenia am ya Siatatonk (6) Ukraine 2 dao Ta A.Vaiser (9) Tadzhikstan Desa ivanow 0) Lithuania 2450 La RVaganian () Armenia 256 : YRaavayey () Moscow 2 2535 ? NeRashkowsky (0) RSISR2 2535 Section 2 results: RSFSR 2 49-23, Moscow 2 47/5, Ukraine 2 42 Lithuania, 40). Armenia 39, Kazakhstan 38/5, Azerbaidchan 3 Kingiia 25, Tadahikstan 23/5 and Turkmenia 21 G-Kasparor-L.Yurtayer Nimeorni eas 14 26 2 06 3 O63 ADA 43 0-05 3 dS 6 cd ed? Oger ObdT 80-0.6(8.. Hes!) 913.8 aed Med Be? 12 td 208 (60) 13 gat Ado 14 HL Zeb 15 8 Bxl4 16 dexi6 ONS 17 bE Zab 18 4 4619 TS bo 2018 3072116 ‘eG 22 Het W623 Les Das 24 ‘ed 8S 26 Le? bd 26 ab Lbs 27 AxhS gh 28 g6! hy 29 Zine fe 30 ‘Whe WHT and, without waiting For White's reply, 1:0, A DIALOGUE In the next game Kasparov (K) fang. Vaiser (V) both provide a commentary to theie theoretical battle on the merits of one of the Sharpest variations of the King’s Indian Defence ANalser-G.Kasparor King’s Indian Defence E77 'V:A meeting with such a sharp chessplayer as Kasparov is 2 major event inthe ie of a master, and therefore 1 prepared for this fame especially carefully. It was ‘uite a temptation to try to beat a Player who has one of the highest Moscow Grandmasters. 77 ratings in the word, but above all 1 wanted to play interesting, Fighting chess. To what extent I succeeded must be judged by the reader 1a Oe 2 ot 6 3 Se et ios a sou oo 6 ons 7 well for 14 years. A sharp and Titte-investigated postion arises Which promises a tense struggle. Father expected Kasparov to play ToS ere, ab he has inthe past. sha ed K: These wellknown moves, played quickly by the combatants, Fequteitlecomment. Asa matter of fact, three years. ago at the Qualifying tournament for the USSR Championship (Daugavpils), Vaiser and I played a bit match, Every time T played Black we feached this position and Vaiser ontinved 9 ed. The only thing f emember about these games is {he lamentable result ofthe opening Three years had passed and I was swell equipped to meet this furious tack, But an unpleasant surprise lay ahead 9 est K: The exclamation sign is based on psychological consider. ions. My opponent knew that of the three prineipal continuations, Sed, Sed and 9e5, the third would ‘come asthe greatestsurprise, Now {was improvising78 Moscow Grandmasters V: The text has amajor drawback in that it allows Black to practically Force a draw if he $0 chooses, a6 happened in the game Vaiser- Peteushin, Dnepropetrovsk 1968: 9. de 10 fe gs 11 ds 1612 ef A613 Baas Huds 14 Od ‘Bags 15 Qxps Deb! 16 27 TOS 17 Sages gae6 18 Oreo Bfes 19 xed dt 200-04 = In my encounter wth Kasparov, however, Thad no fears of Black Wishing fo enters drawn endgame There was another advantage to 9 eSsin recent years T have played exclusively 9 edy and. to. some fxtent this would. nullify the pening preparation of my opponent O .., Ogee K: This move is wellregaeded by theory. which considers tthe best responseto White'simpudent ‘th move. One of the reasons for this evaluation isthe variation 10, 3? d¥ 11 Det Gxes! 12 fe de and Black's pawn mass inthe centre ives him the etter chances, Bellon-Barecay, 17th Olympiad ‘White has a very strong continu ation at his disposal, however, and this renders the evaluation of gh abit optimistic, V: Black iadrit in sea where many netshave Been set tfnot9 de, then better 9 DIG? 10d de TOOet 12 daft Bo 13 We? Ret ‘with a complicated struggle, Nei Polugayevsky, 1966, 0 od ae hed 2 hg Ke Isw't strange that this atu capture is ignored by ECO, which gives only 12 xed {Sto with a good game for Black V0n 12 Bed Black can tr 12 1He8. in addition tothe simple ia are De 13 ato) Vs Inthe ime Vaier-A Shashin, Odessa 1977, complications arose after 13 af) Od? 1402 O16 [5 She3 bs 16 1h2 Wa? 17 Bhs 7 8 WHI Bleg 1995 ack. Although White did win, was not satisfied swith the resuit of the opening. [nals showed that more dive action was required. Tt was fecessary to head staight forthe Diack king, without concern for materia AO A Owe me K: Here 1 thought for 2 long time. Even before 9. ge it scemed to me that White would have no significant threats along the ile, and that the hopeless position of the white king Would f3ve Black good counter-chances. But with he position now at hand ittbecame clear that matters were not so simple problems arose one alter the other, reaching Fverest like proportions, which could not tbe dealt within the ime allocated. Black's chief woe is is lack of seul squares forthe development [oF his pieces on the queen-sie. It is possible that my experience at {he board inflenees my pessimistic valuation, but now T would prefer to play the Whiteside ofthe position 1% kes K: IPL Wied to prevent the advance £418 by 13.15, then the 42.g8 diagonal Would be weakened, land that could prove the road to Black's destruction in the near fut 14 fst K: Now the bishop will be developed at -h6 where it will Gistarb the only defender of the black king, which is also Black's only active piece. The variations 1a gf 15 Bho Sxh6 16 Habe gS 17 waa! Wed 18 xd? fe 19 4 OA? 20° Bahl and Mt {a7 15 So at 16 WaPintending 0-0-0 did not give cause. for ‘optimism, sof decided to tain my sights on the b2 pawn, in order to Somehow whip up a real will to attack 4... Whe? K: This move does not solve the problem of development. should have tied to explo the pin om the efile by Th b6!? Then. the Immediate 1S h6? would have run into 15... Rae3+ Tobe Sas, while ater 13 Ged gf 16 at RxIS 17 gs Wd7! th GIG Blo 19 Sexi Wd6 Black takes over the intatve, notwithstanding the Fact that his “King’s Indian bishop Moscow Grandmasters 79 gone, having been “replaced” by {he ight squared bishop! Therefore White would have had t0 take time out fora prophylactic move such as 15 @fI, although even here 15... a6 would have given Black reasonable counterchances, VeThe wap 14 Sd (with the idea of 18 Rh6? dxc}4! 16 be (BS 17 h2 xe? 18 Bae? Wht 19 Sort Bxe2 20 Wye? Webs) easily neutralised by 15 We2, but 14.66, with similar ideas, made 1s ane Ks White the “mosquito bites ‘opponent and carries on with his seneral plan, Vi IS Wed would have been more peaceful. though it would hhave taken a tempo of the attack, Its main advantage is that White ‘would not be Burning his bridges, for example: 15. 4, putting an obstacle in the way of 16 &h6, ‘might lead to 16 98 a6 170404 Gb 18 Wad, where Black has some pla, but White's threats are the more dangerous. 1s wane K: I recognised the. danger facing the Black. position, but decided to be consistent and took the pawn, Perhaps it will tura out all ight 'V: Perhaps it wast sodangerous to play 15. inh6 16 Ssh and then ether 16. Wb? oF 16. c 16 sa dng? (02) K: The abundance of White's tacking possibilities is noticeable At first glance, but T comforted80. Moscow Grandmasters ‘self with the thought that not Just any move would win. Inorder fo feel the critical moment and find that single move it would be recess) for my opponent.not fo Tove his hen. ' The culmination ofthe bate White has a choice between 17 Set, 17 Kel and 17 ter The cootinuation 17 Bed is immediately fefuted by 17. gf 18h SextSand the bishop joins in the defence of the exposed king Tescemed to methat 17 Bl was not sufficiently forcing. Detaled Analysis, however, showed that in this ease there would arise very siicult problems for Black: [17 es 18, Bed Woo 19 a2 BaF ior 19. WHE 20 ed eS 21 Who We? 22 Wxh7!=) 20 6 As 21 Ged 16 Ife he 23 a5! fp 24 Whi S725 do? with Victory, and no betters 18. Wo 19 Wel Wad 20 dst es 31 wh a6 22 WNT= Ge 28 WHS ahs 24 Hahse ge? 28 Tor Eds 26 sett shack 27 do+ (Bd? 38 Dal? es 29 Sid6r ou7 3017 &e7 M axa, M17. 2d? 18 Hed 6 19 WA2 eI (or 19... Bhs 20 WG Ges 21 981) 20 dot eo 21 af Baa 22 WS 828 BAnT and rate i not fa of TILT gt 18 He2 Whe (after 18. Wht 19 Bel 420.61 ‘White's threats are very strong.) 19-d6l. eis important to cut the black queen of rom the ruins of the kingside Possible continuations are a) 19. Heo 20 as! Wade (20 ‘ase 21 Bl fe doesn't work because of 22 Wal fo 23 Wel.) Diogt 6 (21. Hes 2246+ hs 23 Wd} Wet 24 Ul ANS lowsto 25 4, Justas bad Hs 21 HeS 22 fet sons 29 Get! Waals 26 Sa a7 25 Exh7+! gah? 26 dd (Bho 27 £4 hs 28 gb mare) 2 Bale fo 25 els Sts 26 Wel! with dangerous threats: 19s tat 20 Wea? ES 21 Wor Gab 32 0d5 ast (or 22 Whit 28 12 Wre? 24 Orr hs 25 yes) 25 1 Da 24 es! BM 25 Ragtt ge 26 Dios ens 37 dhs Suis 28 age with a ieatil mate: ©) 19 ~. Yas 20 Wa? eo 21 et $2xd6 22 WTA! and the atack mast bring sucess 'So White was captivated by the third possibility 17 (6+ 1K: Well, here the pace picked up White couldn’ hold himselt back from storming the walls of the king's fortress and sends in 8 Single column of attack, The Impudent infantry “cannot be captured: 17. oxo 18 Dede (G7 19 1 Wes 20 a2 NS 21 gh and the retribution forthe saad, of the queen is inevitable. Leaving the pawn on (6 seems to be even more horrible, but Black has no hovee! ‘One does not ike to consider modest move such as 17 Hel! But itis just this quiet move which gives) White an apparently un- Stoppable attack. The principal threats are 18 He? and We2, oF even sometimes 18 Wal. Thus, by hastening slowly”, White would reach the goal most quickly, But Vaiser rushed 'V: I seemed to me that Black had to take the pawn, after which White would gain the advantage (Gee analysis above.) After 2 "Bhs 22 ne is good. oe K: Now al that remains for the white army is thedecisivesprintto the finish, but at this moment intuitively felt that it would be ‘wrong to look to the rear, and 1 began to lance atthe white king Which wa stuck inthe centre ‘Vi The retreat ofthe king struck me as bad because of the next move, which T_thought would which is favourable for White 18 Welt K: Its impossible to decide the ame by a frontal attack, for We Get OdT (U8 ‘Baga? 19. hI Wes 20 wd? 27 21 ho Axf6 22 Galo ato 28 Wen7s Gry 28 whst with an extra piece) 19 bl Wes 20 Wd2 (0023 GI and the white pawns effectively block the way to the black king!) 20... xf6 21-86 Moscow Grandmasters 81 bo! 22 gS (22 Quiet x16 23 anT+ nm 24 WHS Habs 25 EvhS+ Ge? 26d64 8) 22 Des 25 WahTt me 26 fe aT and White's attack i exhausted Vaiser proposes an endgame, ‘where his opponents gin develop” ‘nent and the strong Pie would be factors operating in White's favor. But has he got a surprise coming? 18 K: This seems suicidal, since the fentrance of the queen on 6 creates two deadly threats. Black, ‘would repulse them with the help of his own queen: 19 (no? Wacs~ 20.2 Wass 21 1Ba3 West 2 18 Hat, ‘There would have besn tittle sense in the exchenge sacrifice 18 Bye2#? 19 xed Web, when Write would clearly have the better chances after 20 Wes! Vi T did not even look at the retreat of the queen. The PE, the Semi-open hfe, the queen, which Prepares to enter via No the wnco= ‘dination of Black’ pieces, the fact that itis White's move — how {sit possible not to find mate?! 1 eft K: White should have regrouped and, putting aside his ambitious thoughts, come to terms withthe levelling ofchanees. To thisend he should have played 19 Wa2! Od? 20 HI Was 21 Badd cd 22 Ded 3125 xd} Bx 28 G2 witha probabie draw (24. @xd3? 25 "bs, By continuing his quest forthe Firebird, White plays nto Black's hands82. Moscow Grandmosters \V; Of course I didn’t want to 80 ino an endgame @ pawn down, but there was some hope Tor salvation after 19 Bb1 @é 20 Bed Da? 21 Who Oxl6 22 Bal Wes 2398 xed 24 Wah i825 Whss Wane 26 Exhs+ de? 27 Buekt tack 28 fe eis difficult to ive an evaluation of the position which arse after 19 Wd2 ‘Wad 20 Wad cd 21 BBS. Tn retreating the Keight, White was fll of radiant hope, all the more because Black had just 17 minutes left os his clock forthe fext 25 moves, only he could fave foreven the riliant reply to fis 20th move! 0 a7 20 bis K: Itlooks prety convincing — there seems no way to Keep the fquecn Teom reaching its coveted Square, Actually Black doesn't ¥en ty to protect is king, but Svith his nekt move creates the terrible threat of -- Bes, going ‘ver tothe counterattack Vs In the light of dispelled itasions, shattered “by. Black's reply, 20 g5 was essential, with, porsibe resistance 2 wae a a K: The greet 21 6 fils tothe ceuching retort 2. Ox" 22 ‘Bred sed 25 ed xed! 24 Ear7+ ain7 25g Be8,and White an do nothing against the united Strength of Blacks pieces. Best K: ‘Much’ stronger than the “greedy 21. Wale, which would sive White considerable counter play alter 22 Wh6 We? 23 Sed! Jespite being two pavins down wba Wes 2 en Bret BM Bred Oxl6 (53) K: Now one ean sum up the sesults of White's “blitzkrieg His atack is exhausted, and the extra exchange hardly arris any Importance, Black has two pawn forit, and the open position ofthe King gives rise to many tactical operations. Thus, for fxample, after 25 EDI the bishop sacrifice will give Black an une Stoppable attack: 25 Sgt! 26 fg Sess 27 del Wpir 28 cba Hes! (29 abs @+! 30 be? e3+ or 29° Bs G4 30 bel wy2. Th avoiding the worst, White heads for an endgame. but Black rmanages to win yet another pawn, Alter which is advantage beyond Mdoube, Ie should be noted that we ‘were both in time trouble at this point. 25 Weed ed 6 Wes (N01 26 2” Bett — ed) wo wrest 27 xed 2% en kee 2 Eabl oy) K; Now Black manages to trade the Knight for the bishop and White's drawing chances are minimal, 29" dled! “would. have fiven more chances: 29. e830 SBb31 (30 Hac? tat). tn thisease Tintended to continue 30... 87 31 Bact (Nothing changes after 31 Bhdt Bes!) 3 Brel 32 Excl ‘Blo, centralising the king and retaining good chances for » 6 30 hr Ot aoa ‘xe Rbk bs Beas MEM Bett 35 oR ats) K: Such an antipasitional pawn structures justified, since supported by the pawa the bishop i no less stiong than the rook, Moscow Grandmasters 83 40 ues as K: More precise would have been a0) Hb, Here the game vas adjoutned, but White, having caled ‘She, wesigned before fesumption. One could argue with this, but Black does havea clear path 10 victory. His bishop will Fetreat to e6, after which he will push the bepawn, eventually ex- Changing a pair of pawas om the Lingside. The thre passed pawns will then decide the contest ‘Another, mote technical method {is connected with the expoitation ff the weak white pins: 4 1Ho3 42 Hes bit 4} Hes Hel 4 gs (44 Me} DRL $5 Hh3 Hil) 44. Rh 45 p36, cuting off the took from the ueen-side, The choice between these two plans is purely a matter of taste!14 | Graz Teams AGE | Rating 12 (Karpov 2700) 18 ‘The strong USSR under 26 team headed by Kasparov, Psakhis, Yusupov, Dolmatos, coasted to 2 comfortable victory inthe third biennial World ‘Championship event. Gary scored the absolutely best individual performance with +8=2-0 (90% 4, Yusupov 6-3, Dolmatov 4-212, Kochiev t's and Psakhis 615 Viadimizoy 5 Final positions: USSR 324/44, England 30/3, Hungary 2835, USA 26/4 France 24, Israel 241s, Switzerland 24, Yugoslavia 24, Austra | 24, West Geemany 24, Poland 24, Micountries, Teams of four plus wo, reserves contested the eleven round Swiss system tournament in the ‘Aastrian town of Graz, 17-29.8.1981 Gary's schedule: Round I: A.Dur b ost mss 2 Zklarié w UG a0 1 & RMorrson CAN 3580 4 BKowtly FRA 2835 5 JSpeciman ow ENG 2550 6 JRedorowier USA S51 1 AGrospeter © HUN 24754 & HSchussler ow SVE 24K 9. Syander Wiel b NDL 28701 0 wo BRS 2475 USunyeNeto Graz Teams 88 Ente Schiler writes It wasatthisevent that Lbecamesware of oe of Garik’s superstitions. Like Samson. e seems to think that shaving my bring bad fesuls, and therefore after his draw with Kouaty (for which he was lean shiven), he Began to assumea more bohemian visage Then he started winning gain ishing the tournament with» stunning 9 score against a field which was of good international calibre. The 1% ‘most impressive games were against Spociman and Fedorowicr. tn the Fedorowicz game he revealed an esental element of hi style. As John Fell deeper into time pressure, and his picces began to wander to the {qusenside, Garik decided to "worty” him a bit om the clock, The tat sShovveded admirably G-Kaspator-I Fedorowicr ‘qusenside operations. Usually the ‘Queen's Indian Defence E12 Gusen is developed on eT, where 144 G6 24e63.OF3H64a8eS8 stanly gets in the way alter White 5 a6 6 Wed ed sels up with eed, RS, a, “The width, depth and grandeur 1 ee fof Gary's opening ideas is well Perhaps it would have made iystrated in his round 9 game sense to follow the standard plan against John van der Wiel Black) here and play e2-e4and h2-h3 but which went 6 .. He7? 7 pS ed itseemedto methat should try to 8 23! xed 9 ed! Not (F9.. dT make use of the position of the xd!) 10 R16 WaF6 1Hed( I black qucen. Now normal develop 1. xe 12 xt with ment is tendered more «ificut White having a. clear lead in Since 13. bd? wil be answered evelopment and “Black's king By the unpleasant 14 Wad dangerously uncasted, 12 18 ‘Dh Be? 13.DbS or 12,613 Was, —— Jumping to the edge of the 7 ed 6 board doesnt look very pretty, Black adoptsone ofthe sharpest but_now it i quite dificult for ‘continuations in reponse to the White to break in the centre with Petrosian Sytem. elebes, and Black has. real Boba a Eounterplay coming on the queen- 9 3 O40 10 ig? 46-11 040 Lek Side with eSch, DbedT=c5, or by uel Wer ‘Rb7, a7-a6 and Debs. [A now des. IC turns out that 14 ad a7 (60) Fedorowicr had already played Now White most formulate & this move in the INST US Champ- concrete plan of campaign forthe lonship but I wasn’tawate ofthis. present bate, 18 a4 the typical An important point i that, alter manoewvre. in such positions, fan eventual .. cibd7, Black will holding up the opponents attack ‘Rot aim to exchange via @d7- (oa certain extent, but after 15, eSxf3, but wil use that piece fore there is no clear way of86 Gras Teams developing White's initiative 15 Wat? Ati a bit of soulssarching ‘white decides to carry out a original plan, which cannot be Sid to have arisen logically from the proceeding pay. 1s. ab7 16 eu Such transfer of the queen is sully connected with an attack fon the ing. but here mo such tuck s incloded inthe prognoss, fs, given the scattering of pieces Ail over the boued, she will be tinable to move forward, or soi coms, ‘The basie idea” of the manoeuvre is to strengthen the attack on the queen-side, Black Will have to send. number of pieces thereafter which there may $iase an opportunity to attack the black king we 36 1 a bs Is he ‘The point af White plan = in this ae jams his apponent’s operation, 8. was Opviousiy” not Wn cb 19 ahs! NIELS. 6 19 gt O15 20 ef Ged 21 ReS oF 21 HT would get what Iam alter: Black has 4 big advantage on the ‘queens, bat White plays against the king. The situation is sharp tnd completely unclear. It seems that Fedorowicr did not like the queen sting on ha, nd he hretly tries 10 drive it away, “There arises forced play. by 1 means bad for Black Bu fequiing from him great pression 19 kas (0m 19 det he had prepared not 19. wand? 20 Gand, but 19 Exci! 20 Weed Zi intending xd wath more than sulicent Compensation forthe exchange. wf 19. 6 doesnt work because 620 Bab, andie20-, Woo, then 21 Ded! is quite ston whic on 0... Sho, then Whites plan fully justified: after 21 ed twill be uifcult for Black to defend his king 20 a2 os In such & way the square is brought under control andthe ahS is marked for ceteal aetivity, Bigs Wh Correct was 20. 6%, main taining approximate equality, for exanple 22 e4 eb 23 ab Hes or 22 Sisto Wal, The weakness of the 6 square cannot be exploited by White, 2 et ob Even inthe ease of 22 86-25 Sd? (23 ef) 29 R16 34 WS Buck's defence Starts to. show sack, 2s ab Baek (67) “The critical position. Both sides hhave achieved what they have been striving towards, maximally activating "their own” areas of the board, At this moment the ‘exposed position of the 3 and the weakness ofthe centre worried me, 80 I decided to epeat moves: Mes 2S gs who ‘This move was made quickly, tnd it was clear that my opponent had no objection to a draw. The coreect move, as bere, was 25 ‘R{6, bu it mst Be said tat was gute dificult to anticipate the Smazing, events. which were 10 follow. Contemplating the postion, Vedetecied that there were some hidden combinational posites. elt A paradoxical move: sacrificing a piece, White will not bain.any immediate gain. But there are all Sots of “tle things amiss in Black's postion the postion of his queen, the ab? and! the bs ‘which weaken te kines protective cover. The onslaught ofthe superior forces of his opponent turns outto be unstoppable. (¢-note it ought to be mentioned that Fedorowice Graz Teams 87 was drifting. into serious time ‘rouble, and that this factor played rile inthe decision to sacrifice.) 26 vel 27 Baer gaes Its understandable that he did not choose 27. xe, as White ‘would have a decisive advantage alter28 a8 16 29 es S17 90 ReT+ Wg8 31 Bhd? woke? wot is iicute co find # defence here. The natural eetreat of the Knight to 8 or (6, Tor example, runs into 29 34 and the Black queen is trapped - 29. WES 30 xbT, of course, not counting The aviempt to” counterattack With 28 Bf 29 Bnd Be? is parcied by 30g! (defending the. Point) and on 29... ett the asiest Solution is 30” xe] ahs BT ed recovering the queen 29" West Asimple and stronganswer:the squcen lies inambush- Her transfer From the queen-side hs proved most succesful! > et Once again onthe retreat of the lenight- from “7, ed will Be decisive, 30 fe Gate BW hg ST Web+ tends 10 immediate rout BL kale Ox Soak ie 00 32. Eh8 33 Whe would hase boon posible. ay if 33 Weir then M4 Shi, Actually, | intended (0 reply 33 Ghd, aio ‘wih an inescapable, but more effective, mate: 3} sy Hixha 34{8 Graz Teams Backs oF 33. Axh3 3M go 33 Mews nT Mow 10 Block resigned because wo queens will easily take care of his King 41.Speelman-G.Kasparoy English ano TER Of6 20453 Dede644306 Sag kb? 6 00 ker ‘A popular setup. Black waits for dl, when he will exchange pawns and advance his other pawns tothe third rank (.. dband 16) the quea’s knight going to 447, White chooses less commit 7 bs oo at More clastic than 8. 5, on which White obtains «comfortable formation forhis pieces after 93, oes obdT was net Smyslov, at the match tour rent of select teams in Moscow, 1981, and Smejkal, atthe Moscow International, 1981, both played 1 We? against me and after IT Sf there is approximate equality “The move selected by the English chessplayer is lest elfetive, since break out, MW .. A fist glace White can win pawn by I? de OxeS 1 eb ab 1 bs intending 14. Brad 15 AXI6, which would scem 10 force 15. gf But the bold 1S... xf? turns the evaluation ofthe postion In Black's favour after: 16 Wid abs 17 Beat Wrd6 18 Orde M1} 19 x13 A oF 16 Gnd6 a6 17 Bses fed! 18 WOI 402 ‘hth an ext exchange, Anammsing «combination: although the position ie most symmetrical Black finds 4 way to sharpen the strug, If White does nothing then after Suc and Sud the slight weakness fof the central White pawns il ‘ve Black a good game nods ed 13 x5 Oxds 14 cd tt ‘The exchange of bishops will make t more difficult for White to achieve the break ees, and also facilitates queen-side play 15 ane Oxf The advantages of this moveace ‘obvious = the knight puts pressure fon the centre, The drawback is ‘equally clear ~ White will prepare the break ebeS, and in this case the knight would be better off on 47, where it might be ableto swing over to the queensside. 15. Bato twas preferable. The queed would Sit neely on the long diagonal, coping the possi of supporting the pawn advances a6-a8, bS-bb and aS-ad eM od de Ww oEea ge The direct I. a4 fas 0 1965! tixeS 20° Taes de 21 Hues with advantage. On 21. ef, for example, there is the important resontoe 22 51S! and the pown-an aS cannot be captured. Black ‘deprives his opponent of the ‘hance to paths knight into the ine via 18, wa bt Here 19 a is bad Because of 20 ba 2 as A natural development of events would have been 20 (4 O47 21 Todt ad 22 G1) ab 23 ab #6 oF 23. ad with w doubleedged ame. My opponent makes a contror ‘eri deciion: to restrain Black's sctiity, he advances his pawn to fn ares of the board where bis opponent is stronger Fn ba HM gal wen Now on 22 Hxad there follows 22. OxdS. The pawn on a3 may bbe Weak, bur itis a passed pawn nonetheless, OF course if one to Speak scrously abouts promotion oa queen, well, this is not realy Uhreat. Sil, sm several variations this pan, by staying alive, can hecome quite dangerous, For ‘xarmple: 22 eS i refuted by 22 S428 ef Wyel*, then ab and ad nh Preparing. 23 He8_ intending Graz Teams 99 xa, White stops. Det and sakes uf for the king at De es This threatens 24. 2, but the main lea is contained in Black's next move, White has to take the pawn and dacs s0 with pleasute, since withthe queen on 65.23 os Dad i weak because of {he zwischenzug 4 GI ane hen 25 fh with am extra piece Bmw Bae a edd ed Another "passer, now on the fle! True itisa bit weak, butall the same it does ease disorgani: tion inthe White ranks. Tis aso important that iti dificult for ‘White a get his bishop and knight imo the game, since they ate paralyzed bythe Back pressureon the sents, as at ‘With a simple point: 26... aus 27 Exdd Hubs! 28. al.) More hopeful was 25 ‘HidlDxed 26 Badd O45 27 bab 28 Bras Had 29, Babs. Black would have the advantage alter 29... 8 due to the Weakness of the pawn on d3, bout there would be very good chances for a dr 3 a 26 di 1 would seem that 26 Sus 4x8 27 Hd leads to position fram the previous note. but the took is nt on da, Afier 27 Zabs 28 Hat xb} 29 Has Bxet 40 Axed Had where the recovery. of the pawn involves Fisk: do Sot! 32 hp? He2 8 Eas Hob? $613 H5, and despite90 Graz Teams the material equality, tis by no means easy toold the draw. ttn [ME OT possible that White may retain "(08 0 3 WE kW Femsonable defensive chances 1 ithou 902308 ee eee ae oan The d-pawn lives! 27) Hyd a a oe cSt, so White's reply is forced. ja A A 2 ee 2f Lvhd e899 92 eStde i Met tee The idea sto get into am em 497 ane Bud. Now, game wiha3 pave manson however on aT the flows ne ta 40 Hes! andthe depawn can only Brea de be restrained athe con ofa pees, not oon meet ands as GE Beret ae bel dt a Bh Wr at rae Coston botnsticenn With Be Iherook one was neceuany to) ‘The reapaton of the extra pay 37 So. mt erg exchange does not pret a Be tine se wean of 33 Saeuaicty ed intending 40g an then aaa get dg8 Whe woulda achieve 48 gas es 4 43 ve a bar ie iieaht acy aur to ao ues AN es sh ge Sa abe as Sake [Eby S¥ ad mh $4 03 gut ss Even here it not 100 late 10 ed HBS 86 a2 ded 7. 2B. securo with Be? EbS $8 shoe HS 9 Sek e760 « a I Sa? 61 Gad el + 62 sie? 9 bas (9) Wek 63 DY HoT Od 14 ed 6S » rs IS G3 66 Bat 1667 Sgt 347? White was Counting on 39...U2 68 gg gS 69 hehe 7 fe nes Ol ‘Gary's post-mortem, as soften the case with Gary, were filled not with conerete variation (as soften atebuted to Fischer and Karpov}, but with far more general tessoning. He seems lessto work outa possible continuations than to evaluate the portant positional aspects which may arise inthe face of each dierent plan by his opponent. Oaly then are the conerstetactks worked out 'Garik's preparation just belore the onset of the game i tease ‘Arzving eatly atthe board he plunges into deep concentration. and Graz Teams 91 starts to get his jules Rowing. The face wbich was cal and peaceful Sly moments Geore becomes reused wath Yenson. Siting down Spponte him, one can hteraly fel the pressure. Hein, ste simpy ‘ginny to pay against “kway tro the board ts gute another manner, indeed. He enjoss bie although quichly bored whsn faced by "weak” opposition. One {Sening he played a numberof games against IM's on aur USA) tam Sn won thenal save lost Gurevich which he simp dropped 3 piscina go positon. The consensus among omest America's nest Ete plaser (Fedorowicr Gurevich, Benjamin, Kuan) sas that heh Simply astounding, Gary told te that ther really only onetnterexting Bite opponent for him Rarpov. {asks bis opinion of Tal, and Cary fndicated that he [elt Talwasno longer likely tobeat him. Hiscontidence {Rimmense but never touches on arogance, And esl worships the Sane ot Bobby Fischer, wih whom he Sovitsindicatedhereslng omparison. Gary ~ General Comments Eri Schiller asking, “Why doesn't Gary move to Moscow? Helikesitin Baku and has sirong roots in his native Azerbaidzhan. The weather is pleasant and the atmosphere" cleaner. Heike to stroll andthe open ait ‘raining’ san important part of his egime. A constitutional before and ater each game f de rigueur. And girls? Gad just smiles ‘We share an ‘illness both being slighily claustrophobic. Large fathsrings make Gary ncomfortable. Ftom the above the choiee of Baku is clea enough, But Gary soften-commuting't0 Mescow (the rip Costs about 30 roubles), here his trainer, Alexander Niktin, lives ‘Gary an excellent teacher. He gave a lecture in Graz, in which some thied world partiipants had thete games analyzed afterwards. His Exposition of the Botvinnik training method was superb, and the practical advice proved most useful In fact, my own play improved hoticeably inthe next few montis, and all did Was act as interpreter. ‘Kasparov. is about to sst_anather record. He has prepared manuscript (in collaboration with his uainer Nikitin) on the Siiian Scheveningen, to be published shortly. This must make him one of the Soungest chess authors ever! He also writes regularly for a new chess newspaper in Baku, and his game commentaries appear all over the Urorla His Iterate sgl is in stark contrast to Fischer and his genera ‘cational level ismuch higher. Anavid reader, Gary's suiteaseisnever Without reading matter of 4 very high standaed. His constantly Improving English (say it never cost me my job!) has considerably widened his communicative scopeInterpolis at Tilburg There was a disappointing feature about Gary's play in his second "super-grandmaster” event, the Gategory IS tournament at Tburg (Holland), October 1-16, 1981, sponsored by Imerpuls. A ‘umber of times he failed to make the most of so0d positions, He was the victim of the extreme tesourcctuines. that Sistinguishes the top grandmasters Tibwe, 116.1081 s4sar soon? 1 A.Betyanshy Ole erita Mm 2 TPetrosian Wed eet wad 3 LePortisch HELO LOL 4 OK 4 4Timman Be KET LTO KE 6K 5S Litjubojevi Oke Ee KIE ET Ko 6 UAnderson Lk eO nO nw 5K 7. Gkasparov Ow Teo KIL K8K 3 BSpasshy KOWAL eH KS 9 Btarsen OOO weer od ay 10 GSasonko PLB KO nO eK a 1 Ritibner ONO nO ME Hd 12 AMiles KOKO nO na eS In round two with good winning chances Gary wascleverly frustrated by Portisch. Gary, in time trouble, making some inaccuracies and & blunder, and afterwards missing 2 couple of apportunitics, enabled Spasskyto turn fost positions nto.awin in ound we, Gary hada terifc intiaue which led to Petrosian's king being driven across he board in Incerpotis at Tilburg 98 round seven: but like at Moscow 198] the wily Armenian, not only had ‘an amaving survival, but won, And finally in found ton aainst Larsen ‘Gary must have missed his way in both the double rooks and single ook endings. Gary's saving grace is that he washis own maincitic and has the determination to stamp out the error-making, 'AL least he won excellently against UIt_Andersson. In fact in Injormator 32 coveting the games of July-December 1981, the experts ‘voted this asthe best game of the period. (And on their list as No. was Kasparov-Yusupov and as No.9 Kasparos-Gavrikov. both given inthe spent chapter) "what game isthe best one of yous ie?" “Maybe the game I won aguinst Andersson. Ike that game very much, G.Kasparor-U.Andersson bur by fortifying his centre White : Queen's Indian Defence FLY increases his advantage TAU fe 2 e4e63 CHG 443 467 a as 3 Bd Set wi [A seemingly logical reply, but On the mondane 10 2 Black White sarsation once and forall. “rh move will biry this could have responded 10. BS 11 cb ab. White could have played © xed bed more quietly with 10 03, which 7 Om! ge ‘would also give him an edge. but This is not the only move. 7... after 10..-d8 11 Lh? Re? 12 Hel ABT e4 ismore common, where GUT i would not have beens ithad been thought that 6, clear as the game contineation, striking at da, would equalize bot 10 bs alice 9d5! eS 10 SA! Web 1] Now 10... US would be met by Dba! White has a wonderful game, 11 dh? det 12 Bel Wd? 13 8g? Gellersuggssts8.-dS79cded 100.0 Hed ed 15 WS with a very eSeS.inorderto try toundecmine strong position for White the pawn chain, but thi is not Mb 3 Iikels to resurrect the saration, Part sg Not 12 dixbS, which turns out Since Black hus abandoned the to be a blunder alter 12... 2b Jong diagonal, it makes sense for a ‘a7 White ta take over for himself. In the true’ Andersson style. * Gest! nothing develops quickly he will White has! a lesser. But still play d7-43 and. mangcuvee his significant advantage iter S.nc6 — Kaight to 6 9'dhg? JS 100-0 Be? 11 e810 12 What be But Kasparov does not play ot ‘uietyt 9 dS! soem bit premature, iy ert94 Inerpotis as Tibure One square or two? In this ease the h-pawn should have taken to steps, but Andersson ates t0 create weaknesses Hast ‘The US break is @ Kasparov speciality! Woot 15 gd ew 16 00/70) Just ook how White'sadvantage has grown! He has a crushing position, thanks to his lead in evelopment andthe weakness of the g? square. Kasparov bs Achieved just the sor of position he loves a clear strong nitive with & spatial aid developmental advantage. Petrosian would have Played 16 ed instead of casting, Tempting the Black pawn to IS and creating & beautiful outpost for the kent at eS. Here the dlifterence between the moves hand. nS becomes apparent a6 sf the pawn stood at hs the Bishop, could answer the incursion of the Knight with. 7 6 6 Now ifthe pawn had gone tof, White would. have. driven his ‘knight back ito the game with 17 FB WeT 18 es! Ges and then 19 a8! would have given him a hhuge advantage on ‘both flanks and in the centre as wel, 17 elt White patiendly restains his urge to occupy the eenre with 17 fete after which Black can create Complications by 17..de TR xed ant ” ket ow or Shr we de 2 dxed sed 22 Bixed The White forces begin to take sim atthe weak g? square De eee Black would tose quickly on either 22 E828 Bad JS 24 Mot oF 2. Hes 23 Ho is 24 aA, which would be followed by 238, 2s Radl As in 30 offen the case with Kasparov, everyone getsinon the act" This ability to. patiently ‘marshall the reserve forces before sping in for the final thrust sone ff the “secrets” of Kasparov's Suceess. Only very eately is he aught oveeateding hinsell Not ot hie the 8,000 mile supply linesl Onc an but admire the way In which every singe piece except for the king. staking part inthe tack, and atthe same ime there Js absolutely no possiblity that Black will be able to forve the exchange of any of them, Bo ar (7/) Black could have resigned with a clear conscience. but fortunately hhe decided to let us see afew pyro technics instead! (00 24... 6 simply 28 Hao SIN 26 06 gf 27 Heo! wins. Inerpots at Tilburg 9 27 st Nov the merit of 25 dl is ade clear, athe rook enters the battle on the king-side Sas 2% Gg on 29 snot Kasparov had this up his sleeve fora long time, having carefully worked out the combination Do eee M0 igi 1 “1 will nat play with Kaspasoy any more!” excluimed Anerson, and he stopped the clock, On 30. 4g8 She puts an end to Black's game. (Notes by Kasparos, Petrosian ant Schiller)16 | Gold! AGE | o To write about such a tense and uncompromising tournament as the Top League of the 49th USSR ‘Championships not at all easy. One mst say that the USSR Championship always provides abundant material for study and analysis ti here that new puts are explore, innovations tested, and all arts of chess knowledge |S made available fo chess lovers, Inmy opinion, the 49th championship exceeded all its predecessors in this respect. Think every single participant produced atleast one kame Which can be favourably compared with ther cteative output to date 4018 USSR Oh (op League, Fran stirs 2430 My own progtesstheough the tournament was difficult one off in fine form with an effective fst round win over Gavrikov G-Kasparor-Garrikoy Tarrasch Defence bat ‘Atthe Bugoino International ia May 182, there were constant ele fences to Kasparov's games inthe 1981 Soviet Championship. There was alo tremendous acclaim for this “game. Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the encounter White’ strategy, involving an fuck om the king. Inthe Tarrasch Defence itis usualy the isolani at aS which occupies White's thoughts Diet actions against the enemy monarch ae almost unheard of, find generally donot achieve the fbjective. Here’ we see Gany’s prowess in both theoretical matters, bilan attack and, most Importantly. his ability to stupa dove sttion through sable manoeuvring, Thebishop tour dS FenSuat is one ofthe most brat plane toemerge m recent 1a as 2 ot * 36 “This move order gives: White more options againstthe Tarrasch than 3) 2}, when Bl Addition tthe normal hay several sharp and unclear ‘ambit variations to choose from The only drawback is that Black cain play 36 and obtain fqucen’s gambit without having fo. wore) about the exchange warision, as the gekright has lost its option of developing vite in that line, This is not relevant here, as Gary doesnot employ the exchange variation and Gastikov Golat 97 isa wellknown Tarrasch player 3 s edo $3 O66 Sp? 016700 eT debe oes Gay peers the main lines to newer systems involving 9 bd2- alter which Black has good play Miz 9 00-10 Ob} abe II hdd Hes, despite the Blockade ofthe isola, Nor she impreseed by Petussson’s idea 9 a3, which is also used by Romanishin ey) w 3 ae The most popular move now- Aadays, although the old 10. Se Tr Bt Wal6 12 xd3 Wabd 13 ‘eT Hadk 14 Wel! Wael 1S Kant Sill ces action from time to tie. 15. BeTisthen the most natural move. with god equalizing chances for Black after 16 Deb fe 17 Bot fe 18 BL d6! asin Orrstene Sehneider, Eskjo 1981, because iF 19 Hxb? Sas, 1 axle wuts 12 Bast 1 was Jan Timman who first employed this move, securing the ental light squares. The older 12 ‘Det presents fewer problems for Black wae The feeeat is safest. 12... Was blocks the a3-f8 diagonal, which may be needed by the bishop, 13 Sgt [Now the light squares recovered by an impressive army of 680) Knights and'a bishop. and the b3 and. ch squares ae open for fceupation By the 2298 Gotar Bo Ie tempting to regard thi as an outright blonde, even though tn thie game u wae considered ayable,“Gavrikow. ike most rath pases appre the secey of bring wate of theo Chest developments The eee trend inthe Tareach involvesthe move "= ph whieh pins the pwn andicmpes Whieto ween Fiskingsideby pawn moves act stich he ataeng notre a the Tarrasch wil assert ise 13 Heth another way of pating rewire onthee-pnun. 13a 1) Be pn the new try 1 “aniinsdexerve more tention At ihe momen he soundest cour fppearsto be 13 gt a Skt Beets 8 Wao! “Lacon Groningen 1980/81 Other moves for White mst falcr in vew of the teetened 1 3 Wedel kar is Previously this pice had been veandering tothe es elective ot Square, were i only got Inthe cay. This novly eas wel pared " ms bs? Sc timidity is ota permite usury in ths opening Black ould stand ony ashy worse Mer IS 3 16 nhs ds 17 “de! es and 13 ace ako ene nto consideration We Sta bse Just not his day. After «wo sue faulty moves Gavihow draker a tate! misealeulation Porhape 1o ats when 17 aD (intending to capture on o6 and play ®aS) might be met by Beat? leaving Black with some chances, 17 Sd6t wart 17-2 8 would ave heen & line besten TS Zyc6 Ba 118. Wes, then White hasan enjoyable game alter 19.283 815 bo Bast 19 Wed eRe “One mark ofa great player is the ahity to induce the opponent to play badly." After 19. 5720, eT ayo 31 song? D6 22 Los White, objectively better, heads for the slow and painful death in the endgame 20 Kelas Ingending to develop the bishop. The beginning of a fantastic cdyatey. in which White rans roughshod ‘over the Weak light squares Beh Black is Hopelessly lost after 21 BbI22 BATH xt 23 Bed BeT (on 28. eas. 24 WOI+ hs 25H wins) 2 Woss eas (There is no safety on the Front lines: 241.6 28 eb nce 26 reo ys 37 ae etc) 25 eo Dre6 26 Wres 1627 Bets e628 Exh wins easily, Nor does 21... a7 allow Black to survive Tor long alter 22 Hel! es (22 ibs 23 BAITS! sont? 24 wISe Suicidal) 23 Exc¥" ack (Black falls prey to the now familar sgeriice after 23. Waxes 24 ANT! GAIT 25 Whit eo 26 Buck xb} 27 Lek xed 28 ab) 24'WeT and White wins 22 ws [Not single ight square wasted! “The sacrifice 22 axl might also have worked: 22. ext? 23 Wah? 31-24 Oud In any event. to Adopt that "prose stcrtice would inave eliminated the possibity of cteating the poetic continuation of the game, wee, Ber 2 af Keep your eve on this piss! Be gear Deceived bythe “reteeat” ofthe bishop. the black rook “occupies the eenie, Bete mas 23. 67 24 GUS! xc6 25 ne? Whe? 26 arco, although White's advantage ‘would stil be great 2 anit Seized, perhaps, by religious fervour, the bishop enters into a real Kamikaze action! Black's eply ts forced. Mo. oy 25 dane! The point. It is not the move itscf which deserves ou admitation but the incredible build-up, the Gold 99 pie journey ofthat bishop, which just moves ago stood om g2! he 26 ges ats 27 Bh! ke? the kingattacksthe impudent rook = 27 Wg? = then the Fearless attacker sarities himself to bring. home the point. 28 ZZh#il Should Black ty tobring his own rook to the rescue with 27 4Hg5, then White brings in is ‘other big gun: 28 ecb! and on 28 Wo?! 28. ie? once again allows 29 Eh7t, mating ater 29, ‘exh? 30 WT B47 he {sho wich 32 BS mate) 29 HEE a8 30 OHS AIST Hor a? 32. hs! wins. Finally, 27. WO? ismetby 28 Hees Rei 29 Sst! 28 Hees! IS The point must be protected. 128, 0729 Depot! wins. ason 29... fg30 Gh7+ and 31 WH mate, hile 29 eb allows 30" Ehis 29 wes Now 29 Ba6+ would nat prove fatal as Black can play 29.1830, ‘ZhP0 831 Bhs ig? 59 Bra ixd8, and White has given away bit foo much00 Gotee ». et The black #0ok is overworked fon the Sth rank. If the eile i closed by 29. He5,then 30 26+ works: 30... fg (orebe 31 @xe5) 3 Who ete 30 Wess eS (74) IF the bishop is interposed on ©5, 31 Oa is decisive 31 Seer! fe 32 EM RB Wes. Despite histo extra bishops, Black canaot avoid mate, Notes by Erie Schiller based on Kasparov's comment, “The move (75) 31 Gest in the ‘Yusupov game wasconsiferedthe best move of the tournament | aw We @ it o i @ ¢ LigS 83 Kgs he 34 16 G6 35 fe WaeT 36 AAT do 37 EM ga 38 BXe6 Wye6 39 Bhd 1:0 (Time) After the 9th round there was 2 complicated situation regarding jst who was leading the tour Ament. Technically Romanishin find Kupreichik deserved the honour, but Psakhis and T were the clear potential leaders. each having four out of five with four unfinished games, Playing off several adjourned ames in one evening presents well Known problems. Fist ofa There is less time for home analysis, as the attention gets Givided between the positions ‘whieh are to be played, and the ‘ind often wanders between them, Secondly. only fiteen minotes are alloted between games. an IW psychologically dificult t0 put one game behind and gear up for the struggle of the next (7 note: These conditions seem 10 Be Unique tothe Soviet Union — know of no other major national championships which impone these Sifictities)" OF ‘course ifthe dames are “normal”, then ii rch simpler Dolmatow made my life some- what easier by resigning without restmplion, bu the three other gournmens, with Belyavsky Kurminand Kupreichik, mained Ect of them presented its own special analytical difficulties In each, twas. my “opponent Gott 101 who sealed the move. Iti, of cours, possible to make an error when Sealing, but my” trainer, Nikitin, and I naturally considered. all possibilities. At the beginning of the resumption, notwithstanding the Sleepless night there were sil unresolved questions. But one thing was Gertain: each of my pariners had. at his disposal a very icon. continuation which would, tothe greatest extent posible, make dificult the road to my desired goal, which was a win over Belyasky anda dae Inthe other two games, “The ist ofthe adjournments tobe played off was the most “pleasant™ for me, the one against Belyavsky. I Was adjourned in the following, position (76: “The two bishops, and in particular a 4 Can negesoten wenn oogpone “HM ‘number, give’ White some winning Shaner lack ano concrn ‘waa me sihstopning ts trestencd bse ce om Ae Which will decisively rip open the ‘queens, Beliavsky spent 40 minutes | AI UE A Sealinghis move. Whatcouldhehave | Re Wp chosen? “The ist move we analysed was 43, “bs. in essence putting a stop to White's plan, Then the direct 48 Sxbs ab 45-2 Ode 46 Het leaves Black with some hope of salvation atte 46... BoS147 Byes be 48 dus she? 4998 ded7 SO beet! SL Be? (51 xed eo) 1. 8 52 red deo3 hb} Ges. The correct method for White is 48 gl! a6 46 Zg2!. trying to swap off rooks on the e2 square. Now if 46... He5 47 hs! Buck is in zagewang and forced to Aisrupe his ideal arrangement: 47... E748 He? Hine? 29 ened Og 50 3 Oxf3 51 Subd or dT aS 44 He2! Hnad 49 Bes D850 HAb6. In cach ease there is no doubt as to the eventual outcome ofthe game The desperate pawn sacifice 4S... gS17 46 2x17 xl7 47 he does not help, iter. The weakness of the pawns proves fatal inthe rook ending 472.63 48 gf dao (48 He? 49 rat Gate 5015 Hb? 51 yor st? 92 Bxbo Ha? 53 Hb! b2 $4 G2) 49 192! Hel $0 yh Bed $1 Hb8 Exh? 52 Hxbo+ 553 Wot Hed" $4 dbs B55 a8 Mal 56 dad Bed 57 TEbs with a win Black won't get anywhere with passive wating moves. He cannot constuet a “fortes” after 44 bd Bac3+45 dined abst 46 aid U6, since White marches up the geile using the hepawn asa battering ram, ‘Well, tha’ it for this postion, everything fs clear, we desided. But suddeniy a disturbing thought erossed my mind. “But what if Black plays actively, for example with 4) g5? At litt glance this seem an Absurd move, since it provides White witha new object of attack, buttsw2 Gola major benefit is tht it allows the Black knight move. ‘Well, how should White react to 43 .. 25" Itis tempting o ereate a passed pawn with 44S, but then what to do after 4... 4b4? Fora long Time it seem to usthat44 Bh would lead usto our goal but it wormed out that Black has a resource! 44. gh (Much worse is 44. He? because of AS xf? Ext? 46 Sod Zh7 47hS.)45 Hshd et (Even here the reckless 445. HoT would allow White to bring his king in via 46 S17 Ext 47 ‘Ge.) 46 £4 (Black would have an impregnable defence after 46 Hg {DyS! 47 14 Hixc¥# a8 boo.) 46 ct (in this ese the exchange saeiice does not work since after 46... Bye3+ 47 beef 48 x07! Gxt? 49 Zhs! ‘but 50 85 intending Ges-bs White succeeds in breaking down Black's barriers) 47 pst i 48 nfo BeT! Relentiessly we sought a win in this position and, although in the variation 49 An? gx (49. SxlT? S068) SO Sula there was some hope Tet it became cleat that other measures were needed. The highly energetic 44 ba!? was als consideted, but even here Black manages to reate counterplayafter 44. ab 8 divbd gh 86 xd Dede 47 Labs er. ‘Asa result we came othe conclusion that there simply wasa’ta forced win in the position sf he had sealed the best move. We foctssed our attention of the most promising continuation, which we found tobethe paradoxical 4x17! White willingly pars with the pride and joy of is ponition — the 5, but leaves Black with ereperable pawn weaknesses, 42. Ghal7 43 hg fe. Novwithstanding the paueity of material, White an count on siecess: 46 Bgl Og6-47 Ga? Ae? 48 hed eh a9 elt [Now the bishop endgame is fost for Black: 49... Sxcl $0 xct eS S1 ‘Hed hs $2 U2! (intending vas) 52... Rad 533 hb 34 U5, The ook endgame, however s not wo clea: 88. eS! $0 Aye be ST Ke! (rmuch stronger than 51 hod Hibs 52 He2 Hb4+ 53 xcs Had $4 GS a2) SI». Hb6 82 b3 and White, probably should win — but only probably! Too few pieces ae left on the board, Tris easy to understand why 1 Was so nervous when watching the judge withthe sealed move envelope in hi hands, Could Belyavsky, After thinking for 40 minutes, have missed his only hance? Atjust this moment the judge came up to the Board and played the sealed move oo ‘Oh In our analysis we had only considered that after 43 .. Obs 44 WS, the break b2-b8 was unstoppable. All of the test of our concentration was ond3 .. ibd and 43.1 g5! rary an [Now the Black knight may beable wo enter the game via the gS square, bur the loss of two temp ia the position will nat go unpunished 4s ot Opening 2 front on the qusen- side.Is quite obvious that White hhas a winning position, but exactitude is requires, o ab 46 abs ae Trying to keep his head somehow above water, Black's forced to. allow the. decisive fntrance of the White king into his camp, a7 axdo+2 ‘White makes matters more sificult for hist. The simplest. ‘win was the immediate $7 efor example 47. Bp8 48 2S Oxf 49-BxD6 Bhi 80 b7 oF 47 xb4ds Bxb4 d6+49 dibs Ded 506 ete. Now White is going to have to overcome. some ‘submerged reefs" om the way ta his wctor. 0” Ew a seed gs 9 hat At the board 1 was almost unable to resist the temptation to goafter the b-pavn immediatly swith 49 805? Ox1350 dun ee? SH Exbs (5152 tide xd 53 SH Fe S#.a5(54 Sxot BaD) which seems completely winning for White, but this a deceptive situation, After 54... xdSt 55 abe} S6.a7 ed SE a8W+ ald White has to look for Petpetuals! Fortunately, realizing the danger I protected hepa on 1B, leaving the capture ofthe pawn, fon b6foramoreforitous moment a ‘bet 49. 3 kes thinairasater 50 GOS GI SI es! there is no Gold? 103 Aefence tothe threat of sta. so obs Ist St dae Black scems to have some real sounierplay, and it appears that White's attempts will Tall short of succes te loss of the pa fon 13 will prove unpleasant, since Black's pawn is not all that far from its promotion square, But White allows this pawn to reach the high point of ie caret! He ‘carefully Caleulates that the new picees on the board will bring About a situation in which he wll berable o press home his advane tage by a series of forced events, s2eh7t Opening a clear path for the pawn, 82 ahs 53 ixbo abot 54 xbs Guts sas Gat Here isan example ofthe super- jority of a bishop over « kmght when there are passed pawas om opposite flanks. The knight is foreed 10 take up an uncomfo able. position, otherwise the bishop will beable to restain the passed pawn: $8... Gadd 56 36 13 Stat 1238 ed, 56 a6 8 87 a7 2 SB oagw te (77) The situation on the board has ‘hanged radially One might think tha the limited amount of mater ves the black queen good chances Of bringing off 2 draw, but Black does not have ime, even up to the ‘ery end of the game, to catch his104 Gotar breath, and infact he can manage foniy a single check, Fxploiting the huge diferencein the postion fol the minor pives andthe fact that heison the move(?), Whitecreates Unstoppable threats against the black hing, S07! This quiet_move is the introduction to. the mating attack. The. Black king would manage to escape afer the hasty 59 Wade? ee 0 Was segs 61 aes+ Ghd So Welt The single defence tothe threat of immediate mate. IF 9. WIS thon 60 Was des 61 Wade be? 62 WaT? G6 63 BSH se? OF Wes mate! 60 ice ed ‘There i no salvation in 60 13 because of 61 West 16 62 Waoe we7 63 Wael web 6H GUS! Forcing 64. WaSt 65 seed Ea 66 WO hod (66. eT 67 a8) 67 Bacs+ bo 68 Hast bxa$ 69. NG yet another White pawn turns into a queen. Having thought for neaely a half-hour (They are now in the third Gime somtrol — tr.) Belyavsky’ decided to try to mess things up with piece sacrifice, but this does not prove sufficient GL Wes 6 62 Wes eT 63 Wag? “The black Knight is not going anywhere, 50. White takes the ‘opportunity of geabbing another Important pan with check ee tet 6 Welt 7 65 Bue ‘There would still be a small chance for Black alter 65 Wed 1B g3! In conjunction with this T right ad that now 68. be? 66 Bred Wes. 67 Bes! would be completely hopeless for Black. “s ‘8 66 hat ‘The black knight has failed to distract White Irom the helpless black king! Against the twomating Uhreats (a7 and. Wes) theres ‘only one defence —67.. eT, but then after 687 yet another white queen wil appear, so Black signed 10 Unexpectedly, t found that 1 had "suecceded’ in duplicating Kupreichik’s cord achievement — 5 tictories in row! | credit this eesult, as T do the result fof the tovenament ill, to the fact that T managed to avoid {ime-trouble. That ia dangerous fenemy indeed, ad had bothered ie the whole vear long. So. 6 out of 7 — an excelent start, bot Psikhis wat breathing down my neck the whole time, always ready to race 10 the Finish. “The fifteen. minute break ticked away and then was involved in my. resumed game with Kuzmin. Ax hoped Trew’ with him "= and- then with -Kupreichik, In rounds 10 and LT lost 10 Gulko and Grew with Ageamow and ell hhalf a point off the pace set by Romanishin. "Psskhis tras already surging ahead and Stood 2 full point in feont of the field, reads to lay claim to his second gold medal. Then 1 recovered and grabbed. three Victories in a row once again Twas in contention In the 13th and 14th rounds 1 engaged in 4 heated theoretical Sseuswon concerning the Bot Variation ofthe Semt Slav Defence, Im oth games my opponents, srandmasters Timosbehenko and Dorfman. approached the game not with empty hands, but having Prepared improvements in the Tong forcing variation in which Dorian paricularly could lay claim toa considerable amount of experince, Nevertheless, the move and the result of the game cannot be separated from each other. But before turning to these interesting games, [should like 10 make Short digression Te classical approach to chess relegate the player of the black Pieces to the rale of defender. Placing before him a clearcut task, that of achieving equality However chess innovators have Gold! 105 not been restricted to such narrow approach 10. opening problems. Now there are openings In which Black takes over the re usually reserved for White the Fight to obtain the advantage. By already adopting such an un- ‘compromising attitude inthe carly Stages of the game, Hlack sets himseit the problem of how to sine the iiatve ‘One of those to take early steps in this direction was Botsinnik, the former world champion. He often turned. to opening. lines ‘which were condemned by theory, telying on deep analysis and an exact understanding of the given Positions. A number of brillant Eiccesses were due t0 his use of Such unfavourable’ systems, And fone of those systems caries even to this day the name of is researcher (Botwinnik). Even ia thisage of sharpeounter- attacking ‘variations, the Botvinak Variation promises unusual and unexplored Positions For a long time White could avoid this sytem, feaeful of the possible dangers which would le before him. It carried 2 black mark on the theoretical card. In Feceat times, however, theory bas made quite & bit of progress, and White no longer hesitates to seek to refute the system outright Thus 1d d§ 24 6 3.218 O16 4 Bed 06 8 ApS de (This move initiates the pian which was deply ‘worked out by Botwinnik.) 64S 76S WO 8 hd p59 Dag hy 10 Bugs Dba 774) (44)106 Goter Here is the tabiya (Starting position) ofthe opening. Thanks {othe pin, material equality can be expected. White can now tr for the advantage with either 11:3 0F Tel. For a tong time the former was “considered. strongcr, even though Hallows Black a greater freedom of choice. The game Polugayevsky-Torre from. the “Moscow International tournament of 1961, overturned this evaluation Since that game both moves have been considered to offer the same prospects since Blick can reach the same position via ether move fonder TT ef 7 12 g3 e8 13-05 Wb6. The move 13." b6 has Virtually disappeated feom praxis fever since the above mentioned Polugayewsky-Torre game which continued Hade! Wadi 15 Baal ahd 6e7 a6 17 hat bs LS Chand White's army of pavens turns out tobe more powertl than the rook 14 42 0.000 15 04 b4 16 Sad Now where should the queen go? In the game. Razuvayey-Vaiser, May 1981, Black unsuccessfully anstiered 16. Wa6? and ater 4313 18 Oe} D6 19 Wes Gras 20 Binds xd 21 nds Bad 22 {BILLY was faced with insoluble problems, But after just a few {is nthe very same tournament (ihe Team Ch of the USSR), ‘Timoshehenko found the ght toad, 16. BS! His Zaichik, did not manage ‘correctly in this unknown situation find guiey fll nora ad position, The dialogue was renewed with fresh strength in the Firs! League {Gober 981, Dorfman, paying Black against Haritono, coat ently played hisfirst femoves, but afer White's reply was forced to {hin for quite some time. wo ‘ws: 17 ait Here this reply is quite uncom- fortable for Black. By opening up the queen-side, White highlights the unfortunate position of the black king. Confronted by this novelty, Dorfman dig not react in the best way, He played 17 ed Andafter IWabeb 19 deitescaped ‘Ssaser only Cough the inaccurate phy of his opponent. Now it was Backes turn to come up with 8 new move. Seshnikov and Timo= Shchenko together found the move ants) which made itsdebut afew rounds later in the game Anikayev= Sveshnikoy. But this time. the novelty was not so. successful, [Anikayey foun! the est moves at the boatd, the moves which willbe recognised as best by the analysts ss wel. ie ab ab 19 ket Bes 20 Beas eas nwa O06 22 Ett (79) ‘This is the ertcal position for the evaluation of the move 17 ‘Obs, Inthe stem game Sveshnikow played unsuccessfully — 22 'Bb, and Anikayev exploited his opponent's mistake — 23. Excd 524 03! witha clearadvantage, as 24. Qxb3 i bad for Black due to 28 c3! be 26 aT 8 27 {Ext7 with an unstoppable attack But even such a falure did not lissuade the "seekers of secrets" of this variation. The most intresting developments were ost begining. Te wasn't long before Black found a new answer. Already atthe end fof that very same First League, Timoshehenko unveiled hi latest novelty! “After 22. 3! his ‘opponent, Rashkovsky. fll into ‘ep thought. But here too White fame out on top. A bold piece Sacrifice placed Black in a very Aifcult position — 23 Wxbs xbS 24 Gest! be 28 Exc} dT (25-. b7 26 Bacl) 26 Bab ds 27 Hxa? des 28 Hes dd, but heavy time pressure prevented Rashkovsky "from finishing. is briliant” conception propery. Gott 107 Although Black did manage to scrape a half point out of this encounter, betame clear that 22 ‘3 could not quite rehabilitate the variation. Inany event neither Timoshehenko nor Sveshnikov ssked employing wt farther inthe tournament, o, we find ourselves fon the ISthDesember ia the Sports Palace in. Frunze, The me is Kasparoy-Timoshchenko, ‘As the reader aleeady knows, in the 13th round at Frunze the complications of the Botvinnik system were considered to be in White's favour. Having carefully studied the position ater move 28 In the game Rashkowsk)—Timosh- thenko, I came 10 the conclusion that White has good winning chances, Terlore Timoshchenko's ‘pid play in the opening came as somewhat ofa surprise forme, butt ‘vasa pleasant surprise indeed. had no reason to doubt my own analysis, And therefore matched the speed ‘of my opponent [Alter 20 minutes from the start lof the round, when the players on the other boards were still just beginning to develop their pieces, in our game the portion, aleady familiar to our readers afose after 22" Biel. However Biack’s next ‘move dashed my hopes of «quick ‘win based on home analysis. 22. ‘as! ‘This unprepossessing manoeuvre of the Knight ses a few iffiult problems before White, the nature Df which are twofold, The strength ‘oF such a novelty les in the forced loss of time for psychological re-108 Gola grouping. and as any chessply Knows the difficulty of leaving ‘one’s prepated analysis and turing toconcrete, independent analysisat the board Ir often happens, hough, that the accompanying sense of danger actually helps mobilize My first impression of the position was one of discomfort. It 4S appagent that Black has a Powerful centre, and the White {queen-sidefores are badly placed ‘The advantages of Black's position are aptly demonstrated in the following variation: 23 xa? &b7 24 Qo et. So, has White's entire Steategcal plan been incorrect? Obviously the answer is no! Butin ‘order to Fefute Black's risky play in the opening energetic actions fare required with cach “move Black has not achieved these positional plustes cheaply —there has been 2 serious weakening of the pawns which ought to defend the black king, and the. white pieces are in unpleasant proximity fo the residence ofthat monarch, ‘Therefore “ahead —"on the attack! (1 ought to mention that All ofthis seems pretty simple and logical on paper, but atthe board itcost me 53 minutes!) Bobs Black has no real choice. Could hhe_ possibly repulse the white attack after 23. Oxb324 acs ‘Gd? 28 Des! 626 Healt 827 Bxc3! and the queen is doomed due tothe threat of mate in thee, Now White is forced to sacrifice piece, even though the sacrifice oes not ead toa forced resolution of the position. HW Dak be 25 dnt a7 Sensing an early grave on the ‘queemide the black king hastens toward the centre under the cover fof his own fores. Ie would have been bad to play 25. 887? in View of 26 We? 6 27 bat with ecisive threats 7. e628 Exc). 2% Wr tae poked whT 80) 1 would seem that White's attack has fallen by the wayside, 8 uebling on the eile does not Seem to have had much effet. On top of that, Black now has the hovrible theeat of Bxh2, developing decisive counter: tack. But here, just as on move 23, the initiative comes to the fescue, involving once more the bepawn’s advance 28 bat [Now there no more to fear from 28. Bxh2, as then 29 Wat= wins, as if 29 1. dB then 30 Bes, while on 29. bS simply 30 doxhd. Ie appears that Timosh ‘enka had not noticed ths ese inhis home analysis, ashe thought, for 25 minutes before making his reply. Now the cunning move 28 "bs iso no help, because of 29 iba ahd 30"tcb, after which the ‘ime is forced into an endgame Which is winning for White — 30, bas 30 a6! Zhi+ 32 ez Bxcl 33 ab Bac? M Dad6e be? 35 Hd7h whe 36 AtG+ eS 37 gal ete. One might be tempted to think thatthe struggle is over at this point but after Black's next mmoveitis appatent thatthe fights just beginning: bs Played without prejudice, Black ‘makes itelear thatthe check on¢7, {aken on ils own, will not prove Unpleasant. -Actally, “alter 29 Bers? xc? 30 Wsc7> kes 31 25 87D Was White siniaive is insufficient compensation for the exchange. Therefore White, exploiting ‘ercumstances, seizes Another open file with tempo. 2 ab Wat (sl) The forced play has ended and now White is faced with the problem of making a decision, ‘The entire course of the game hangs on hisnext move. Willhe be Gold 109 able to create new threats or will Black beable vo swim safely tothe shore? Here I thought for quite a while, and came tothe feling that theattack would he carried out on purely intuitive basis. Still, an ‘immediate method of obtaining 3 sult from the position cannot be found. For example, 30 00 xt SI Wade 06 32 Bel (32 Wa eS) 32 51 33 Wd eo 4 Wer= IS oF 3013 WIS! (against the careless 30. hs? White Wwould be able t0 end the game With an effective combination — SL BbU+!! Gxb7 32 Wade dds 33 “RbGr with mate) 31 Was as 32 Be! Wale and the black king scapes. The last vatlation shows that the black king is no placed in danger by @a4+ because he can Ace to d8. Therefore the pawn on A? must be eliminated, This wil, however, consume a. valuable tempo, and how often the loss of time in an attack can lead (0 misfortune! 30" RxaTtt From all that has been said above it isclear why thisordinary fapture ofa pawn is adorned with Such an enthusiastic evaluation. Wouldn't it be strange sf such a paradoxical decision (¢ lose time Inthe middle ofan attack), turned ‘out to be optimal? Now the threat i631 fatal blow: Timoshenko decides to exploit this oss of time by foruifying and solidifying the position of his king. At this Moment 1 have just a bit more than 20 minutes left on the clock. and Timoshchenko has consumed110 Gold? but 40 minutes! 0 s This frees! 26 for ‘his king However the bastion of Black's defence 1s weakened the rook d5, and White quickly takes advantage ofthis fact Unexpectedly, Black finds him- Self faced with 3 question which becomes increasingly dificult to answer — what i the fature of the "Dds? Timoshehenko wrested with this move for more than an hour, bout just Because one spends 3 eat deal of time in thought does fot always mean that the quai of the move 18 aso raise. a al ‘The most direct, but ot the best answer, since the horrible position of the @a8 now becomes A majo factor tis rue, however, that the aggressive. 31. Whi ‘would not save Black in view of 32 £51 she6 33 HOSI(SS Hdl? WeH2+), Nor would the direct 31. se work because of 32 131 WHS 33 Tat ed M fe Geel 35 Beh Nevertheless there move which would render White's task much more dificult — 31. St Nowt 32 Wd5 does not work because of 82. Wabi 38 Gy? WoT. Nor does 32 Het achiove the desited ect in sow of 32. deb, as on 33 Bal of S415, Black has 34 ‘Hs! The “prety 32 oI allows Black to defuse the attack ‘with 32. xb) 33 dS BOI (G3. db? 34 dd BATE 5 8 Th6 36 Sud Wha 37 Wess) 34 {2 Daw 3S hI WIS! (bur noe 35 "Wer? because of 36 Hb6! Be? 37 Whs+ deo 38 bs) 36. bo ist 37 es edt Te ge BHOF fee But 32 0 liquidates Black's threat of eSe4, after which it does hot seem possible to save the ‘game, for example 32... Ha8 (32 ci? 3 Wade web 34 fe) 33 belt Bea 6 wads Wats 35 ad! etc, In any event 31. HS ‘would have been the best practical chance. The exchange af T00ks Teads Black inta a hopeless position 32 Hixd) Walt 33g ans ‘The knight cannot be saved under any circumstance, therefore Black tries to complicate. Naturally, White does not allow this (0 happen Be watt The immediate M4 ho woud Ihave been much weaker in view of Mie, Dott at bes 35 hw Now it's all ove, since after 35, 436 Bred Wes 6 Mest WS Be west des 39 Be?! Black cannot meet White's teats, and ‘must part with his knight, easing him to pawns down in a bad position, Its interesting to note that while at che thietieth move White was way behind om he clock, the rales have now been feversed and Black is in time rouble, white White still has 15 ‘minutes let! oe we 36 Bias Eas ‘A. Somewhat more resistant move was 36... Wet 37 Watt exact moves to the end. The attack on the king is renewed with new force v onto 38 ra? gt woRB Wed 0 Was Ba 41 Waes+ HT 2 aS In the attempt to save his king from oblivion Black's pices have become scatterred and infective There is nowhere to go and alte siving a final death gasp with 2 ‘wes Black resigned following the ‘obvious 4 ghz 10 “The game ended, but the argu ment. which was’ being tested remained. Is the sacrifice of the piece correct? Where could Black Improve? These questions were faised by aloost every participant inthe tournament. Thisthemewas {debated in lively discussions up to the very end ofthe round, with the loudest noise coming from the co author of 22. as —Sveshmikor, He proposed a variation which scemed to beat out his opinion that Black's poston was playable, fand inthe final” analysis the frandmastrs agreed that the ceive error was 30. €5, where the strongest move would have been 30. eS, allowing Black to pulse the atack. All of my fempts to refute this variation ‘came to nought, and Svesinikoy loudly boasted that he would be Gotar 111 prepared to dispute this position futh me over the board nthe V6th round. playing 30. eS. Knowing the mastery of the Chelyabinsk GM in theoretical matters, fas reasonable ot 10 doubt that he Would keep his promise Returning tothe hotel, 1 could not Telax for some time, Regardless of the pleasant rest, the game did not feave me alone, sit really possible that White's entire plan was a boll? Again and fgain [wrested with this question, tnd finally picked up a set and Started analssing ‘Only at two inthe morning did 1 manage to find peace.” My analysis conclusively proved that 430. eS would nor save Black ‘Well, what the hell may as ell swat forthe f6th rolnd, thought to myself But hie docsa’t work that way “The spectators who arsived late for the 14th round looked up in amazement at one ofthe demons teation boards. Not much more than 440: minates snto the round. the competitors ia Kaspurot-Dorfman had made 20 moves, reaching this complicated midlegame (82)112 Got! oth sides had hastened to this position each. being. absolutely erin of obtaining the Full poiot ‘without any difficulty: But unless Steshnikow had found something Incredibly deep inthe position then suzely sucees would come to White, relying on ‘his: prepared analysis Dorman quickly played We Bes but the following move by White came to him asa great surprise bi est ‘Scshnikov had considered that BES was forced here, which ‘would allow Black to beat off the attack with oe dt, Le 32 bl Wags 33 Wass ds Ebs+ Wabs 35 Bxb8 xe} oF 32 dindd Wedd 33 hI Gus! cc The strong move in the game was based on the es of destroying the ciel defender of the black King, the as, Byes ‘There is'no way to avoid this unpleasant echange, as on 21 {Bak there follows 33 eas! Has AN HBTS ek 3M LeTh GINS ‘Wh and mate is inescapable, 32 dest In this quiet move there les the kernel of White's plan. The pscudo- active 32 WreS? would bea false method of carrying out the attack, 4s Black can play 32. Zico! 83 brs eT 4 bo" Bes, and White Gan make no progres, Aer the text move Black, despite having a number of moves to choos rom, is eompletely defence Tess, Here are some variations ‘rom my late night analysis: 32 eS? 33 424 and BaS, oF 32 ed 33 WED deo ho! SixeS 35 Was id 36 Lbs, On B2., HOA, 33 Hdl ek M4 fa! ‘sing the aight in view of the threatened Wad, while on 32 ROT SF BUSY Ged MR HS 3S Was and 6 Eds ete Dorman spent 1 hour and $ ‘minutes trying to find a Saving plan, ut it was already too late 2 6 “This attempt to theow the kaight imo the game doesnt hinder mein the lest 3) WT ek is hopeless to ty 0 lose the ale 33 Gd G3 Ro Eb? wee 35 ws) 4 BdI! Os bs? Wis) 34. Khe 35 WOS+ (Boh 36 War 7 7 RDG! a? 38 Wo7+ and mate, Alter 33 (Be8 White could, if he wished, force « winning queen ending by Bb Wash da? 38 bTF se? 36 BxcT+! eT 37 Woes Ses! G7 "e738 Wh? hus 39 ab6+) 36 Waco ibs 39 Woot es 40 Woe de? a Abo geo 42 Babs! G7 2 dS 49 WHS ‘Gea 441541 with mate or the win Of the queen) 43 Watt! es 44 ‘Wass and 45 Wns. Bur White didnot want to simplify the position, prefering to finish off With direct attack, edt Obs 134. Hd the game would come toan end immediately upon 35 Baer 38 el! (83) The hapless position of the black pieces make it impossible Goat 115 38 WHI! ds 39 whee daT 40 Hers Geb AT Wre6> res Bech Bees 43 ett 10 433... dd? 44 BIN a third pawn wil be tot, ‘Alter this game it became clear tha Black's opes of resurrection by 17 Obs are but a mirage ‘Therefore everyone was eager to see the Ith ound game Kasparov Steshnikoy, but the Chelyabinsk forthemtocome otheaid oftheir grandmaster chose to avoid the ‘monarch. Black decided tosacifice Botvinaik sistem, playing 8 B6 fone of them, but this does not instead. One can say. though, that ‘clay the conclusion of the game: Knowing Sveshaikov, this will Wad appear in the near future, and Be hues S06 fore theoretical discussion will 37 Exes Bat ‘ake place [As # matter of fact [was now leading the tournament! But only 6 2 point separated me from my rival Psakhis, who had stil to play against Koprechik, Gulko and Agzamov. I, on the other hand, was faced with Romanishin, Sveshnikoy sind Tukeakov. The next two rounds went to the Siberian, as he won both games while {could oaly manage draws ‘Now we have reached the final round, and there are vty few persons {indeed who doubted that Psakhis would succeed. To begin with, he was still leading me by /4 8 point. On top of that he had the white pices ‘inst Agramoy, and then. fooKat my opponent — Tukmakow! How fom earth was T going to try and gain a full point with the black pieces Sasinst such an experienced player? He had only to draw to take the bronze medal. Stil Psakhis did the right thing and played forthe full, point against Agzamoy, trying to wrap things up. ‘Obviously Pakhis was considered to have much better chances than T aad against Tukmakov, but las ounds obey rules of their own making ‘The battle raged fercly between Psakhis and Agzamov. with constantly changing fortunes. AL one moment it seemed that Poakhis had the ‘ctor locked up. but then resilient defence By is opponent Beat ofthe ‘onslaught, leaving him with an extra pawn. Finally Lev deckded not 10 take anymore chances, and headed for 2 drawing continuation, Extending his hand. he was surprised to se his ofer ofa draw spurned [Now he found himself fighting for his /-point. Nevertheless, the game was Finally concluded! peacefully ina postion of some complexity, where14 Golde the extra pawn for Black was compensated by the extra minutes on White's clock, At the same time my game came to anend. Because ofthe special significance of this game, Both in terms ofthe result and the Psjchologeal circumstances pervading the battle, | consider this game {to be one of the most important moments of my chess career Tuhmahov-Kasparov 9 at King's Indian Defence E74. It goes without saying that this Pd fe is the strongest continuation and 2 86 «casts doubt upon thesoundness of The King’s Indian Defence did Black's gambit play. At Tilbues, not, at the time figure egulariyin against Spassky, I had the same ty opening reperioite as Black, position — but with the white ‘but im this ential moment of m) pieces! The ex-world champion career, I decided 10 dust off this played wrongly here —9 .. Wa, ‘old and reliable weapon And alter 10 a2! 247 11 Hast 3 Oa ket ound himself in a position where soa a White's advantage wae incontest 3S ko Oo able. The contiouation adopted o igs by Black in this game allows him ‘The “system Tukmakov has considerably more seope for his ‘chosen does not promise much for pieces. Shite, but has the advantage of ° he prohibiting active counterplay by 10 aa Black, T understood thata simple After 10 8F4 g81 11 a2 e6 12 caualizing method, leading the de Sac6 White would have con fame into quiet channels, wovld siderable dificuly developing his fot accomplish anything in view gl Of the tournament situation, and 10 6 Tukmakow was well aware that Hod Eee would have to turn aside from the noo ab ‘costomary theory (Tor which see 1B avs Polugayevsky-Kesparov, Bugoino White cannot establish strong 1982) and play something skyifT pawn on bS. since after 13 ab? wished to go allot forthe win, RBS! 14 Wet Wxat 15 Wal We7! ‘ the pawn on ef will soon be swept 7 as bse away. Objectively. this unsound pawn 1B a6 sacrifice deserves the question 4 eo Ger mark alone, but for is cipabiity 15... bb looks tempting, but OF introducing complications, aller 16 eS! White mil inhibit sso meritsan exclamation mark! d6-dS, ‘thus obtaining a clear sch 36 positional advantage 1s xe 1s Ke? would allow Bick 10 achieve the does beak whos Hinaranee a3 toed Studs Trends Gadi But even hore Black nly bas compensation for the pawn — no moye than that With the ext moe White ses for more, eventhough foes Moy Black to obtain the ange Sth bahop par Ie scemed 10 she atthe poi that White had Mendy abandoned his swing fans " is @xbs ie sis Aste this move my optimism tepan to row, Tht move hopes, Toros ach. Tukmakor oo dube fl tke ‘ponahing_ bs Srponet for ast ky psy in TR opening, 16 ab woud have Speved nes fora sequence of Seohanes tha mig have lea 0 {he atEpoin reat which would have gathered nthe bronze medal for opponent Now, however, the fg js Begining 16 as 17 ed Guus 18 Gest On the straightforward 18 2 Black would. obtain a strong queenside position after 18. bs 19 dexbs ch, and. White’ would have considerable difficulty frying to hold things together fom that Hank, After the text move Black must ture is attention to elence — against the threat of ‘ae 18 et 19 ei Gott 11s Its ifiult to condemn such a natural move, especially when it didls “additional” forces to. the bate ay well ay threatening the PeS advance, Nevertheless, it just this move which later proves torbe the cause of many problems for White. Dynamic’ positions such as these require the player to make the absolutely best move on tach occasion, and moves which te “simple and good” often ture fut to lead to. nothing good ‘nhatsoever The dynamic complex ities of the position requited the cnergetic 19 Seal, which would have created unpleasant threats fgninnt J6 and strengthened White's advantage. Now Black manages to optimally activate his Forces iw . asst Beginning ai this moment Blac startstoapplya“Tullcourt press" ‘With each move a piece i thrust forward, forcing White to react extremely accurately: the slightest, mistake may prove to be fatal. 1 manage to create dangers. with fish step, staying just slightly ahead of my opponent. But being slighly ahead, that isto say tohave Avery small initiative, proves the decisive factor in this game, TCS just this intative, and aot material Factors. which proves the most import 20 26 (84) This dubious expedition was practically forced, since the more Dbviows 20 fea would have given Black the opportunity of creating lunpleasant thveats: 20. Hel116 Gola 21 xe! Oat 22 Weg Had After 2064 gS! 21 WhS eT there anes a postion ia which White's xtra pasin isnot significant. Nor Would 20 a5 radially alter the ature of the struggle, in fact the stormy complications would actually ead 10 an endgame in ‘hich Black stands better: 20 Sixas 21 Gach Bael +22 Wael Wes) 23.GaaS Sd 24g} Ge2" (24 ‘Wt dosnt work because of 35 13) AES 26 af ed 27 Wa2) 25 re? Wacl+ 25 Gg? Ket 27 63 Wo and the activity of Black's pieces ‘more than compensates for his Slight material dei Kt seems, ov: ver that White's move timinates all the difficulties, since after 20 Ws 21 Gast Exel 22 Weel White holds om to his extra pawn But surely Black's queen had more important things todo than baby sitthe 65 pawn 2. WaT By sacrificing a seeond pawn, Black diverts the white rook, alter Which a major defect in White's position is unexpectedly expored the Weaknese ofthe fist rank Aller afew moves this defect will assume major proportions 2 ves leis rather hard to believe that this rook will aetoally not manage to find its way home! We Bxelt 2 whet Forced, since alter 22 scl eS! the threat of Qd5-8- is unstoppable, i, 23 g3 O44! while fon 28" Bas the black knight amazingly changes course, and feters the white camp via ba! re 2 ea (nce again, the only reply. On 23 WT Black's next move would be considerably stronger 23 et [Not a moment 10 lose! White needs just a single move and he will have nothing to worry about, Dut he doesa’t have time for i even up 10 the end ofthe game! "bs This is not just « matter of protecting thea-paven, Ifthe Black Knight gets into a8 i will have Aisharmonious effect oa White's Pieces, especialy in combination Swth the BFS, which eam infiltrate ALB. (note expanded = tr) u ket Now Black's thought-prosess thas become clear. White pieces find themselves overonthequssn= side, faraway from the important Action, whichis mear his king. The black pieces hegin to approach and surround hiresidence: This 6 ‘not to say that White Tacks com> Pensation, however. His two Sonnected passed pawns on the ‘queensside will have the lst word Jf Black does aot make anything fut of his operations against the ‘whice monarch, Now White has ome to a fork in the road — ‘where should he pu the bishop? Obsowsly 25 ed doesn't work because of 25. 2201 ds {threatening Bie 27 WAT Saabs, thu the question i. co which of the remaining squares, 3 0F 45, should the bishop go? “Further away from sin" decides “Tukmakov: besides, then the knight will be attacked. In this totaly rational position, however, logical decisions So not always turn out best. His dificult to say now how the batlle might have thickened after 25 ae, but in my opinion {his continuation would have been, more in Keeping withthe speit of the position, tis imposible tos that 25 e3 would have beaten back the"attack. The game might conte 25.» Be? 26-Bel ded ater which an exact evaltiation of the complications docs not emerge. 2S has Agr this move Lintitively fle that’ ‘Tukmakov did not fully ‘comprehend al of therhreats and, fot sensing the danger continued fo rely on the strength of is position, At fis glance White does Indeed scem to have everything Under contol, The Black knight hanging and if 25... &b2 26 WT Aha then the unpleasant 27 bat fends White's probiems. But the temendous potential energy stored in Blacks forces is oly beginning 1 show its tue strength! ee Rett (AS) Golde 117 ‘The black knight cannot be captured, since on 26 Sxh6 Wes 27° WHI el! White gets mated. Now. as Black's threats are bein hing to take real shape, # would have made sense to think about 26 WI, bringing the queen into bpp wath the defence of the King, Against this 1 would. probably Ihave played 26 .. 0227 xd6 Bxco (27 ag? leads only to 8 draw), retaining some compen- fation for the saenfied pawns Tukmakov. however, decides to rush. bis Torees back trom the fqueen-side, not paying sufficient attention to the danger which vas facing his monarch 26 Os Ber! Continuing to support the attack and bringing fresh white targets nto my sighs ode ‘This move relieved me of all problems atthe board, and facil fated my commentary as wel Isn't it strange that alter this natural move White's position i probably -defenceless, hich is Why fattach aquestion mark oit Notwithstanding al the eiticisns Phave made concerning White's118 Gott play, the positon is stil unceas, but only if White plays abril sjove: 27 WT Now Black has an effective drawing manoeuvre, ifhe Wants We 27.- Baz(27~. HO2?28 Babb aeS 29" Exes! Bees 30 B04 winning) 28 Sabo sixes 29 Des ahIH? 30 dex? Was ST ipl Seng?! 32 dng? Watt witha perpetual check. In anyother game this drawing line would have been acceptable, even tremendons ‘efeative satisfaction, But on this slay 1 as prepared to take any Fisk in o4der to avoul & draw! Fortunately, Tukmakow relieved sme of the necessity to seek some chances in sucha vatiation as 29 xed 30 Bye} BIO ST ast GI He? at 32 Hel aay 0 Was 32131 (32 Abs? halt) and if 32, Waa, them 33 Host Ga? {e. The transfer of the knight 10 the cent not only fails to solve his problems, it actually magnifies them, as the a4 ean come under ‘many threats, ae wae [Now that ibe rook has let 2 White's only detensive resource evaporates and his game quickly rolls dovnl, 28 abs ‘Thete is nothing beter. On 28 Dbe6.28 Wrest s decisive, and fon 28 @l3, 28. RAF wins 28 xcs ‘And now, when the danger is scen with uncovered eyes, when it fs obvious that Black's pieces foccupy all the key postions, Tukmakov commited an incredible blunder, in severe time pressure and facing all sorts of threats he ‘managed to tors away the game in ‘one move, Of eourse even the Dest Selence would have left Black with a very strong attack aler 29 eI" 29 Who Wes} 29. Wao! 30-2 (30 HeB ONT 31 eS is iad because of Hs, ahd 32 Gor Wie) 30 hans 0 Bal? 31 Heit) 31 ht des 29 Wel? ou ‘This diagram will always be reflected 10-me inthe shiny gold medal ofthe championship ofthe USSR! Fifteen minutes afer the end of this game the meeting between Psakhis and Agramovr also con- cluded. I the end the dramatic Face had finished to the pleasure ff both Lev and myself. We had batted throughout the tournament for first place, the lead changing hands several times. In the end we swete tied, Usually in such circum Stances. various tie-breaking methods are used to determine champion, but this was one of those Fortunate situations in which we were both declared the victors! Super at Bugojno 17 | resign AGE Gary Kasparov's clear-cut win of the super category 14 tournament at the Bosnian provineal 9 town of Bugojno in Yugoslavia marksa new peak in {career in which sensational reslls ad Become Commonplace. One. compare this only with the 1 freatest of champions playing a thei very best. (Karpov 2720) Ubjbojee Polgaversy T Petron Blase Binanoie STinmon 1 MNaioet 12 kanal 0 1 Stone ae 14 Blokes 0 ‘The slight relaxations and uncertaities that dogged Gary at Tilburg 1981 seemed swept avay. He dominated the touraament from start Finish, that is except as usual for his game against Jan Timman, (At Moscow I981 Gary somehow scrambled clear ofthe jaws of efeat, at Tilbure he had been well and truely beaten, and inthe 11th ound at Bugojno he lost apiece Bu, with the ack of the hard-orking.comed up enough complications to escape with « draw120. Super at Bugojno An enlarged edition ofthis ook would include Kasparov's round 1.3 and 4 wins against respectively Gligoré, Najdort and Tvkov and te terrific crap with Spassky ending ina draw. ‘he managed to aya refined posiional game with Tigran Petrosian ‘one ofthe most skilful positional pavers make history of chess. At the end ofthe game although material equality remained. Petrosian did not have a Single acceptable move at his disposal. Kasparov was so pleased by th ame that he dubbed It the Best game of it fife.” Botwinnik in “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. G-Kaspator-T-Petosi Bogo-Indian en Vdd 216 2 ef 6 3.18 ads d BA? WETS g8 xd2= 6 Bd2 0-0 Ther ds 8 O-0de9 Hast es (9 Bal? 10 @c2 cS 11 de *) 10 de Bres 11 Lact Ob 12 Syed Wer? After this nervous move Black has extcme ditculty in mobilising his queenside. 13 Gest Alter 24 ue 25 d+ Ws H now 13. dT hen 14 Oxd7! 26 Haft uI8 27 He? ilatrates ‘wxd7 IS WadT Dad? 16 do the faultiness of Black's statepy ‘would win materia. Hee Qxes L.Kavaleh-G Kasparov 14 Oxe8 O48 1S WAAL! (IS xd King's Indian 90 Edi) 15... 0616 WAS g6 (Or 16 Led g62 Ded eT 344 O44 06 1617 Bicd Ged 18 Bret b6 19 som Oo ‘3 ~ threatening e7 ~ would 68 win) 17 ZaM D45(If 17. Ek Makogonow’s patent. It i not Te eS! Wacs 19 ExdK+ WN 20 an impressive system, but Kavalek Exist x8 21 He? with a was interested ina sharp struggle dominating rookon the Th.) He 6 “s {Be (18 DI 19 He? Wes 20 7 a Bast {Bxf7!) 19 RATE Hest! (19.1620 3 kes Ons Bea at shedding a pawa is 9 Sia felatvely best) 20 41! ZOE 219 Od? is the usual move here a3 dig? 223 ph 28ad RAR(AS and Black develops a kingside if 28. gy White continues imitative, eg. 9. Wes 10 Gib315 ‘major piece build-up by HeSand 11 c5 [8'12 Rd} Ones 13 Ored ec) de" (Unlmann-Kapengut, East 24 West 10/87) Germany Byelorussia, 1967) and row if 14 de? Barden sugeests I "a, ° wes to deat 10 g4 SI TL WUD intending aaucensie casting 10 ons Black is following a standard strategy ofthe King’s Indian, 1 at This seriously weakens the d3 square 1 s oh Wert Timman wrote that a quiet positional player would probably fontioue with 12. @cS when Black has comfortable play. But Kasparov seeks more 13g (88) Atypical Kasparov shock. The ight heads diectly forthe weak square The other Knight cannot be captured, as on 14 gf Black plays ae. Then White isin deep ‘rouble, vr A) 18 fe Odd 16 sha? SNE 17 Bald diet 18 Dred Ores, or by IS Rxedef intending. xed, Super at Bugojno 121 ©) 1S Bed ef 16 ad (IF 16 et BIS) 16s BASE 17 Bed Des! with a tremendous advantage for Black in each case, “There is 0 time for 14 a8, as Black simply replies 14. d+ 13 bu? xb 16 Wb3 Qa intending 14 14 wae, 14,000 was relatively best, 10 Which Kasparov intended to weply 15 and if 15 gf? andthe black qucen wil infiltrate via hé with Aevastating effect, e-p. 163 Wahs ab Blo ts Sg) Hp 193 fe 20 Bel Wh3 20 Wer he 21 Be ‘AI428 O11 ga! F Better Set Enso. "The only other reasonable alter native is 14 EDI protecting 62, Svhich is met by 14 DIS 1S (Ge (4 16 a? fp 17 tg BAIS 18 x3 ed 19 BIT IS, vi 1) 20.3 io 21 ab? ald 22 ed N6*, oF 5) 20 Red nas Wo. erase 8 be 11S sha? then 15... £4 with a ‘tushing position 1s a 16 dah Kasparov played this move ‘much too quickly, using only 1 ‘minute for thought, Immediately afterwards he spotted the briliant, Ig Gai! Now on 17 Wadd there follows simply 17 fp 18 all (or 18 ps W719 Hall ght intending 20. g4) 18 gh 19 ald xt No better is 17 2 Od34 and now either 18 g2 fg 19 &xg3 (19122 Super at Bugojno DL Ha13 20 x13 WTF 21 che? Qc, or 19 Qe? He fal to help White) 19 Brat 20 Opt? 0 Aislt eft F and 20 011 x! 21nd WITH 23. ed Ges are ‘obviously unsuitable.) 20... hS 21 {e8 i622 Oe? xnér 33 Babs Wu5* wins, of 18 Bed Des! 19 Wal fg 20 Gps 20 211 2 ==)20 2221 Bgl Bef} 22 x19 wahs 23012 03 Hag? nga 24 Bes Bar +4) 2 Bhs 24 es ENt 25 Ge? BN626 Dh ned 7 By 7 axBt ‘The dest ‘ove, ut White should stil be able to hold on to the draw with best play 1k OS et 9 gal Be 20 Oat! Kavalek misses his only chance, which is 20 e3! Black now has fothing better than 20 he! 21 Sho! (21 a3 Bubs 22 Exo x3 23 x13 BIH and now we have a nice "duel": 24 de? dined 25 Il Delt! or 24 Gg? xed 25 Er Gel) 21. Rxl3# 22 Bat 3x23 dats Bios 24 ger w+ 25)BH3 WIS! 26 Gh2! anda deaw is the best that can be achieved Other eres are inferior for Black, for example 20 .. 81721433523 ab Gxbi23 Wad, cobbing Black Of the d7 square and sering the advantage. On 20... 17 White fan obtain an equal game without difficulty by 2L SI", and Siilary'on 20... 847 White ean cequaise by 21 ali, An intresting, but flawed option is 20. gS?! 21 83 gh 22 ab hg 23 dud g2 24 a2! + Finally, 20... Bal is fefuted not by BL END Ws 2 Bhi Bho! 23 237 xe} 24 ab B14. but by 23 ahs ahs 24 Wad! exploiting the weakness of the back rank. 0 en [Now the game is virtually won, although there are still some tactical hurdles co overcome, ket Bate 2 ea Of course not 22 Exf3 Wat3+ and... Wshl Ro. war 23 hgttt ‘This hastens the end. 23 a3 would have held out abit longer, although Black would have had big advantage after 23... Rant 24 Hxhl 28125 ab @ixhs, Bo wnat Ma On 28 BM Ox22 27 BAe ‘Axel, and then if 26 Bain Axl 27"wxbs Wn" 26 det Wedmaes Mo axed 25 ines us 26 ab whe 27 ee Gel! on Super at Bugojno 122 White resigned because Black wil pick up the ook with 28... e2+, leaving hima piece abead. If 28 Wad then 28. 2! is an elegant finish. This win gave Gary an incredible 7s points out of 9 game, nd from this lofty post he coasted to an easy fist place finish USSR Club Teams Championship Kasparov (together with Pstrosian and Polugayewsky) hack from Bugojno were immediately thrown into play at Kislovodsk in he final of the tournament for teams of Sporting Clubs, All organised Soviet players must belong to one of these and those selected for representative teams need a very pressing excuse not to participate. Teams consisted of ten players (6 men, boy. 2 women, gil) plus reserves, (Gary played on board 2 for Spartak below Petros. His results: 1 Y.Balashow (6) Burevestnik 2595 % 2 BGulko (). Lokomotw 2565, ° 3 O.Romanishin (w) ——Trud 2540 ° 4 Yiaverbakh (0) Zenit 2490 1 5 V-Kupreichik (u) Dinamo 2570 1 & VTukmakov (b) Armed Forces 500 % 7 SPalagmik () Usodzhai 2505 t ‘Team results: Trad 4315-2615, Armed Forees 41, Burevestak 4014, Lokomotty 37, Dinamo 32/5, Spartak 31, Zenit 29/; and Urodzhai 25, Tru join Burevestik inthe 1982-84 European Club Championship, Kasparov Black counterblow in the centee, B83 however, tras the” game. Into Tedes 2 O18 6 3.4 od 4 Dedd diferent channel, Deb $ Sed 466 Bed BIE oe ast 1 ge White will not be granted time ‘The first surprise. Kupreichik to exploit the weakness of d5. In usually choosesa more aggressive fact Black will occupy that squate system, involving D8 and WE, fint, ES. 7 ‘her 10 On 5 ry OF the three possible knight 9 war moves, this isthe most naturals 10 All the same, Kupreichik re- &b3 is too passive, while 10 O15 mains tue to himself, heading for gives Black two promising tries complicated postion with oppo- 10. &xfS IT efel 12 Aaf4ds with Site side casting. White's chosen the initiative, of 10--- xed TI plan seems quite promising, since xeT+ Wxe7 12 Ored ef 13 Bald there are good prospects Tor a Wxed with an unclear game ingside pawn storm. An energetic 10 Set (90)24 Super at Bugojno Super ar Bugono 125 sae as waxes ows Bus Shas On 0 hcl the simple 20... ‘This tastes the ineitable. 24 Now 4 yas 15 e515 x res hallowed Teter eta aie we icotsquc eet Mo oy 3 “ae torn Kup apc Treretitmaeroftemnie. 38 dui St ‘Som onto Black has Babe ee ag gear wags 27 act ds a8 sroch move powerful argument in Boia ae Gurnee pwanneboet is e Not meater tous Sxc8 12 posse The pn on ihe oe esi wuts det, bur stil Gsaveys Whi sided. by the eprethk nope fora opening apo pas shan et Siting he te Reet ge is Spending ow hese 10 wich Now allthatremins for White Whe eae stig 2 asunatnadvanase tg oo wine sont doubt Bucasso lacs tk would have been iow ee Oo, Then’ he would fae ha to n tind probe ike move alert Thisunscttie mone cteating 17h ae 1 Woe) als 4 primitive threat (12 Bxes 19" Bd, namely 19 intending 13.1, ©xe2+), changes which creates two threats and the entire situation, The advance wins a pisce ‘68 cannot be prevented, aller 16 te which ‘White's. position inthe Nov the bishapsseattheother entre falls ikea "hove of way, in onder to mect 173 2xe3 {playing cards": For example: 12.18 Wye} xfS 19 Gd2 with the odds 1333 Sch 14 Maes db decisive ceply 19. ReS! 15 WP WoT! Therefore White 17 es should tum todefenc,settlingfor Having come to terms with the an inferior postion after 12 gl unavoidable loss of apiece, White G51 1S Sad (Iai? de ¥) 13 vainly tres to exploit Black's Ghads 14 Bhds Weds ISed x15. slightly backward development But Kupreihik docs not want to in Bact recognise his mistake, and ties to oki Ses pick up the pace of ther Fight ane OMeBecoming a Candidate Rating 1.7.82: Kasparov 2675 (Karpov 2700) Age 19 ‘To become Chess Champion ofthe World canbe along arduous teek through five stages cach of ich ld be yer aa. Thy ae. 1b eormiances to aequre national nomination; Pe puying in one of sateen zonal tournaments 1. paying in one of tree 14-playerinerzonal tournament 4. playing knock-out tom & qualifies) series of candidate matches: 5. playing & match with the reigning work! champion forthe fist o win six game, ‘Gary Kasparov, as one ofthe highest rated payers in the work was fortunately seeded into the Moscow Interzonal Tournament, September 8236, 1983. The time consumed by # Workd Championship cycle 1 Strongly criticised by many leading payers and publish and there are moves to telescope te last three stages ino under two Yeas. Two ‘ualiners into the Candidates based on one [3-game event every thece Sears makes the system a fottery. As Gary said "the players with the Sirongest nerves and greatest phjical fitness wil iumph. The younget peyers Hold the advantage bere." (Vassily Smysov. 1 year old formet ford champion, qualified from the Las Palmas Interzonal. Lottery? Frerally youngi?™~ ed) At least this made preparation absolutely "Kcr Bugojno and the USSR Team Championship Gary returned to his colleges the Foreign Languages Institute to Baku, where he majoring in English, Hesatfiveexaminationsin ten days. nan interview fe dismissed a statement by one of his teachers bout preparing for an cram and learning two extooksby heart as exaggerate "although 30 far cant complain about my memory.” Becoming a Candidore 127 For his preparations for the Interzonal Gary planned to spend wo months (lly-August) in a holiday hotel in Zagulba a health resort by the Caspian, 48 km (28 miles) from Boks, “Tt do a lot of swimming True, I promised my mother nat to swim out more than 800m [also intend t0 play a bt of football (despite exarms Gary had followed al the Wworld cup soccer rom Spain during hune shownon Soviet TV ed) the man in charge of my physical conditioning i himself a good football. ‘Asa mater of fact there willbe a whole eam made upof my frends. We either split up into two or else ssck rivals on the Beach, Oh, yes. Tl be taking my Peugeot bicycle along. I can pedal up to S0km per hour.” CChess-wise his preparation, ~"T've studied. all the latest chess literature, and analysed my games, particularly the ones Hot. When my ‘nus sith ches, [ike to listen to music, and espectlly pop songs Gary's supporting chess team sere Aickeander Nikitin, Aleksander Sakharov, Engen Vladimir and Valeri Chekhov: The Moscow Interzonal saw the secret dream of many of Gary Kasparov's admirers ~ firmly on the road towards the world title come true. He qualified with « handsome margin together with Aleksander Belyavsky forthe 1983 Candidates matches, they joining Korchno\ and Hubner (Finalists 1980 series), Rib, Smyslov, Portis and Torte 1 Gkasguror 207s t 3 Natal ao " 4 UAnderson 210 : & Eater ass or 5 ViMores 00 th, 1 Lchrtiamen 2508 he 10 Dvelimiroe — 298 he U1 PeGhoorghe 888 te 13 Riodriguer 28 ha HL MQuinteros 2520 on Kasparov thought that his round one game combining positional and tactical ideas was his Best of the Tnterzona:128 Becoming o Candida Grantetd pss Vdd S46 2 of wh 3 Oe a8 ded Duds Se4 Oned & be 7 Rather than the reeently popular 7 oo 8 kei be ooh abe An improvement on. e610 $11 hg! Knaak-SaTalling 10 we? This reinforces White's centre and isa plus for leavingthe knight aval 1 war beh aS. 12 gst G6 B wo 15 ad} es! 15. 5 loses to the Forcing 16 xhst gh 17 fo Bate 18 6 Was 19 Who threatening eS and Bh3, 15... Wob i insuilicient as stir 16 ibd a6 17 b3 We 18 Sigs Black's 18». WIL lacks sting. The attempt to win a piece by 18 16 16 age fa 17 ahs 1WH7 gues Winte a complimentary isso ticket to attack ter 18 Te de yes 1 vols) Bet “Wt 18.04 is es Shee 9 ge For if 191. Web 20 Dds ras 21 BadS with the wa bishopeand reat prospects 0 ast 20 tao) le re Embarking on an interesting combination which unfortunately fails toa counter not csily foreseen. Sax has fefesined from 20. Bans because othe postional ious after 21 cS 21 xed xed noo wwe 23 game eat 24 wast And White achieves an ending in which Black would be hard put or mint material parity Eo "wes 25 Weed Exel 26 EAT he 27 ByeT diag 28 el d3 29 542 (AIS 0-02 Hes 31 as mas 32 Ends dR 33 04 BS ME Sed a5, so abr Loses at once, ut 39. be does not rescue Black, wz, 36 xed dat 37 es! and now 37 Exhd is bad because of 38 (4 = mending &e8 and JN7 mate eg 3 ADL 39 es QSOS 9 ST ate, 36d hg a7 hg ro Though he won a number of ‘more concerned about the way In which his round. 5" game against Mikhail Tal went GKasparov-M.Tal Semitay. AntiMeran DAS 1d 216 Ped e631. 18US4 deb 5 gS h66 Sha? (Usval 6 Sato.) 6 de Ted gS S389 82 27 10s 1f 10 0.0 bd. Gary introduces 3 prepared opening scheme. ""As | Understood it came as complete Surprise for Tal. And at fist the Shape of the tile went very well 10 bs 11g Was 12 Wet gd 13.4268 14 Died 15 0-0 S16 a4! 46 (2 ‘But when it wan necessary to Play the rather obvious combination 17 xed be 18 Sed Wha 1931 with the postion ofthe Black king very dangerous if not hopeless. | was. templed. by "a refinement Which banded the initiative to Tal KAuIAPOB Becoming @ Candidate 129 17 be was Alter 17. Weh4 18 Zbl und 17 Suxb4 18 xcs be 19 Deh White has stong threats 18 eed be 19 Oxed Zeit 20 xed de 2 Sor Sind 22 od WG 28 WAS-0 24 Heed ads 1) Tal. very short of time, offered the draw. The postion has is fisks, eg. alter 25 Hel Qa 26 We? idk 27 txd7? ed? 28 eS White’ threats are hihcult to evaluate. Though glad to have escaped with a draw Gary talked about the psychological. shock, the criss ofcontidence,hesutfened ‘over the manner of his erring BeLuzern ~ Soviet Triumph 19 | rating 183 AGE ‘The USSR chessplayers determinedly reasserted 17 | their superior strength in the 25th Olympiad Luzern, October 30-"November 16, 1982, Thiscame | alter poor peeformances at Buenos Aires 1978 Qnd | JhchindITungars) and Malta (Ist aiterie-break with - Hungary). Gary’s performance on board (wo, with 6 wins and five draws made a powerful contibution to the USSR victory Kasparov 2690 (Karpov 2710) Round OSarapu | wNZD 31S L.A zB cw SP % LAtbun = w USA 2568157 4 SGligont =) JUG 531 5: USmejkal = CSR 2568 a6 6 GSosonko —NDL 2575 3 RHdbnee FRG. 260113 8 ZRibl Ww HUN: 2625 ats 9: 3Nunn BENG 2565121 0. Vikowehnoi ow SWZ 2635136 me So ARG L- 12M Subs b ROM 2525 Las Tk UAndersson SVE 2610517 tee 2 oben The most dramatic clash of the Luzcen Olympiad came in the round ten match Switzerland v USSR. Gary, occupying board one forthe day, ha his fist confrontation with Soviet emigrant Vietor Kortchno. ‘Karpow"s challenger of Baguio 1978 and Merana 1981, For Gay. sensitive to the highly-charged emotional atmosphere, to the wortes of the Sovit delegation and to the intense stores of a large But poorly placed audience, the game was the hardest, the most demanding of his career Te photograph captures Karpov and Belyawsky peering anxiously aU the position just. before Kortchnot played his disastrous 23 aed YV.Kortchnol-G-Kasparoy Modern Benoni Aes 144 Sie 20496 393 p74 eres S55 d6 6 30-07 Of c6 80-068 9 ed ab 10 a4 eB 11 O42 ObA7 1ahs be 1b Och eS 233 Exchanges like 14 GreS ease Black's defensive problems in the d-hatea and therefore improve his prospects of marshalling the queenside pawn majority ~ ed Te okS Bod I 94 Bxgd 16 ng xpd and 15 4 yp Hfe ves suit Black = oi Tn answer to 15 only 15.15 used fo be considered with Black first sacrificing a piece, then winning queen for three” pieces ad then inthe end reaching the ‘wore position, vir, 1515 16 AMS 17 gt xed! 18 he 8d 19 gh IS 20 ho! hk! and now fnstead of 21 Des! there is Kovatevie's inspied 21 Deal? Bigs 22 Wags Weed 23 Ordo ete Two years ago Jan Timman breathed new life into the opening swith is. a to strengthen’. TIS, Now Timman's opponent, Scheeren.in the 1980. Dutch champioash played the naive 16 bandater 16 Lucern: Soviet Triumph 131 (Wh 17 gh Bah 18 No E19 Bez (19 BI") 19 [ST was eventually routed. My opponent played more strongly 16 ah? after which Le to thinking, In Principle T undestood this postion And yet despite this my next move 16 182 16... 2d? was probably better to meet 17 £4 with 19 BS! = an improved model of the game 1 Now if 17... 7 18 ef x5 19 ‘stand White wins 17 st Black buns his boats, 18 ab 18 fe Sing3 19 ug3 res 20 12 asin Biraboum-Armason, ‘Raanders 1982, Timman gives 20 ‘Bas either driving the white king into. the. centre" and then playing. ba to regain the pce or after 21” having 4 repetition by 21 oe a 19 Saxbs First ertcal moment, After 19, fete vatiation 19. 4220 ed! would be cutly rejected and two Tines seriously considered, viz 4) 19 Dxg3 investigated by the DDutet team waining for Malta in 19801 et), and by 19. Bass and on 20. Oe? yg 21 Gags (FIL nk Br possible) 21-14 in both cases Black having a strong attack the White pees on the queenside having only static roles, 0 fe12 bw rm Soviet Telumph Second critical moment. 1 was unaware that in the pages of Tnformator 33. "was_ published Aiur Olason, Reykjavik 12 Which we have followed up to 19 fe, Only now does our game begin to aosume an independent character” (Kortchaoi was in Reykjavik during that tournament and took part ina post-mortem! — eh) 20 axett In AlbureOlafson, play wont 20 DaT 68 QD RAT ie a Possible improvement.) (Byrne & Mednis considered 20-3421 BAIS cf 22 Seb WAT 23 £5 and how Jan Timman suggests 23 {So with White plus pawn but absence of g2-bishop guarantees Black compensation =e) 21 Wed Onell 2? aoagd 5.23 1577 isis 28° WH! and now 24 fest (on) would be possible =e Next. in order of thinking White can try 20 Dad whee Black fas bo ideas, fist simpy 20». Wado 21 Daed WHO 2? Te Bait 23 Wall axes (6/5) and second 20 Qaga"? 21 Bes ‘Wado with the Keight obviously untouchable and continue later O47 and. AIS with enough compensation forthe pawn Trcomsider 20. act to. be strongest, Now. what should 440? Heontinue developing 20 Re a wet What ehe could be done about the attacked knight? 121 a7 ‘Eis! on 21 a3 Wek 2? ee? es! 25 Wa? BUS 24 Te aeS 25 Ge2_Bb3 with strong threats is posible: the thied idea 821 246 Hibs! when fo take on e5 gins nothing. viz. 22 Ie stxeS 33 ed Bygsr 2 Gg P28 be? ahs) 28... Eis, ey a Many would find impossible to mave the queen aay Trom the dens diagonal, but with this Black Keeps up the pressure and accomplishes a useful regrouping 2 Bben), ed 22 Gas Bbeh (93) le wm mal w mse mel [es a ma | ig moe Third and most real moment =e phos No that to be done i ortho aks te knight ter BScanceanok to 33 aaes aso aa ato possible 38 Sis ‘aa 29 wf er 20 ta ith en Wiz hus an ets ESS, whe Ble hos many nae dag 26 dat BU tink that ths tne lye for Blk Te could hve played 232 knight and following with Qed According to some critics this Would have refuted 16. 1S (Chiet "critic. seems. to be Kasparos himself in notes in Deatache Schachblatter he wrote ‘We? und Schwars is in Schuterig ksiten) Surely alter 23... O17 28 {hed WS the battles sil ahead? White's extra pain has to be balanced by hie weaknesses on central squares and. poorly co- ‘rdinated pieces, Alter 23 we D7 24 Ded Was White congested, dan Timmian suggests 23 We2 keeping the option of the &d2-cl plan to strengthen #8 andy it 23 {8b3,, White can become fully developed by 24 ga? Was 25 Basel. ef 23 gar stat! Kortchnoi had overlooked that Luzern: Soviet viamph 138 the intended 24 B01 to trap Black's queen is met by the winning blow 28... E34" a fet A. claim "backed by some analysis that 24 a2 bs would Tend to. win for White was made in the press next day. But Black ould play 24. BBE when after 25 We? O17, with noanchor pawn ‘on 62, in my opinion the white Position is loosely hanging Together, And on 25 fe Hall 26 WAIT (26 6 ets) 26. nes what does White do? If 37 Oe? 2yxgs 28 xg} WHS oF even 27 Wh immediatly, while 27 hel Black gains pice by 27... xe3 24 ined ved as alter 39 Ded “bS 30 Wal 20 Kh? Wes) Black has a small combination 30 rei! 3 Rak Heat 32 gt Ha2t! emerging three pawnsup. Those variations are by 0 means conclusive. but one can Appreciate that after 24 WS Black's defence i superior a sacs 2 Gel What ese? 2 aug ae ates outs 27 Wel ets 2% me wa White is clealy lost? Dyes Black now has two possibilities. 29. HID and 29, nd. fot dil to see that 29. x82 twins in rather uncomplicated fashion, eg 30 el QI oF 30 xd? BN 31 Wed Oss with white king moves 32 Gh2 B+ or B2@el Wacd 33 Boot Gk meeting 34 @xi8 with mate by 34 Wed? 35 Gt WP et Butat the Woard with my time practically exhausted T decided on » Bai? This spoiis the game and makes the win uncertain had prepared for 30 sgh Had? 31 Oxe4 e+ 32 41 G2 Wht BH) 32 “AbS+, but jo" wares gives me a choice between 30 xP and 30 xh IF the fawer then 31 gt? Oxt2 32 Ba2t poses Black a problem asto where fo put the queen ~i0 32. WIS 33 as leads to perpetual check 2s the black queen obstructs his ook, oF 82. Wh8 33 ast aT Mo Hart is 35 Ahor des 36 Hak+ Ge? 37 dips mate and here iT Black ties to run his King through the gentee by 3. ‘White has 38 015 (shreatening sate in four by 36 pS+ i537 BAM ete) and after 35... 3 another king chase by 36 Ood+ 215.37 Bad ded 38 OH2+ des 39 edt Bhs 40 Zah7 mate These variations show the active covoperation of White's pices after 30. xh Tinuitively chose ‘ean ‘wist a3 (04) After the game F devoted an enormous amount of time to analysing this position. In severe time trouble, Kortcha played poorly 3 ew M en 35 1635 Geb T intended 35 eS Which requires some finesse to force the issue, eg after 86 E+ (e137 Hh! Wad the lack king an Nee the ehecks wit the queen Side, but later f proved that 35 WeF is simpler (eg. 36 g5+ 6 intending «eS ete.) 3 is 36 ise Wane 01 Time Reverting to the diagrammed postion alter 32. 3 the Question is "What Should 1 do Shout his knight?” 1H 3} Ba7 Black can win the bishop by 33 WIDe 34 gh] Wadd as alter 38 O64 8 White does not have time to set up a rawing mechanism, while on 38 ‘Deed Black exchanges a pait of Knights by 38... 104 But White has at his disposal very erafty answer in 3} Hatt a7 6 Ha7 We 35 Gh Baa? 36 025+! and ies now “What to ‘do with the Black king?” Ito f= Fork: oF 196 Spi lading to fork; oF to gk ~ draw by Hate m: Soviet triumph 135 ‘That leaves 36 .. 8 and then after 37 Has Ge? 38 Ba the Only try to escape the checks is 38 ‘uk, but then could come 39 erty ges 40 Oado+ I AT ITs yh 42 Seed! when best is to play into an ending with an vata pawn by 42. Belt and §3 Wred and that shouldbe rawne if here 39. es 40 Drude sds A Eb Caw 2 ‘chs (threatening mate) and now 42... 24 43 Gul (49 Ger? Be) 4B, Dahir Ab Gh Whase 45 ‘Bh? Wab? one cam play on with three pavins fora knight but even that could bea draw ‘A memorable lash E Agarpor 2700 1s 4 2 Giasparo 208 1 ” 3 al deo it o% SO Mvp 388 te nado tay Colour on odd hoardeW HWE WE BWW WH WE or cunnies eft ane) Candidates 1983 The drawing of lots forthe 1983, ‘Candidates matches made during the Luzern” FIDE Congress, November 1982, had a lopesied Took about it, the strength being concentrated in the bottom hal of the draw 1. Habner » Smystov 2. Ribiiv Tore 3. Korchno’ v Porisch 4 Belyavsky v Kasparov SemiFinals winners |v 2and 34 The Belyavsky-Kasparov match (best of ten games) Began in Moscow om February 24, 1983; 123456789 Kasparov is POL ALI Belyavsky 120% 1012003 Kasparov had White in od mumbered games136 Luzern: Soviet triumph Games shed bast 32 OR e6 33.5 2d 3466 208 35 eS GH 3607 G.Kasparor-A.Belyavsky e8 3716 G6 38 WS! gh and OGD, Exchange DSB_LO(ALter 39 Bast HT a0 Wace a(x ee BxeS G6 10 Dge? AT! UT AD a Sb6 eS 1S 0-0 ed 16 £5 Wh4 17 fe a ew me dS Wags 26 hg HeS 27 p4 hS 28 an w Ban i ea ae you would have a chance Fischer and Tal at their ‘ankly yes. would incident ally ike t9 Fepeat their succes” The AIPE (International Chess Journalists Association) awarded the (Gess Oscar forthe most oustanding petformances of 192 fo Gary Kasparos. Voting went I, Kasparov 1021, 2, Karpov 943.3. Andersson $944. RiDLS13,5. Tal 480. thesecond timestnge 1973 that Karpov. to fis chagrin, as not wom i Gary will be 20 0n April 13, 1983. Ist premature to write Kasparo ante ports? Opponents’ Index Akesson sa Anderson 33> Marianosie ois Arnason 20 Marowie 0s Begun 2se Mycrkulov 100 elyavsky 72, 1360, 1960) Patatnik Re Belsavshs ors Panchenko ae Browne We Pavlenko “o Butnoris 480 Perosian 100 Chiburdanidee Sie Pigusov 160 som 52 Polugayewsky 90, 40,454 Danatov 580 Pribst ae Dorfman 38D, Ile Rogers 20 Dsoinis Rowman Dom Enlvest Romanishin Le. és Einors Sex inex Eolyan Speclman ase Fedorowice SS Spindonov 20 Gavrikow oie Tal ite Hjorth ST Timman 350 Karpov 9, 668, 67%, 760 Timoshchenko ose Kavatek i208 Tukmakow Kengis ye Vaiser Kortchnoi 3b Vasilyenko Kupreiehik ie West Kuzmin 350. Yermotinsty 210 Lanka 16 Yurtayew 00, 770 terink 620 Yusupow Ss Eputian 12s Yusupos 100 Latikos we Zaid zo Magetramov Ive Zaitsev Se Kasparo’s notes Kasparov and Others’ notes Botuinnik’s notes Wade's choice. mostly Kasparov's notes edited Others licsed name ~ position onlyOpening Index (ECO index) Birds "A053 Sicilian: 23 ‘A08 English oS 30 (Old nian ‘Ads London aa? Torre Aas Modern Benoni ‘Abs Alekhine’ ‘os Care-Kann BI Bis a9 Sicilian 22 By Bie BaD Ba 39 6? x0 es es BS Be? Bor 2 Freach cos 4 Peteott ca 6s Ruy Loper/Spanish st 2% x0 45 2 3s 07 3s Queen's Gambit. 6 Da 37.97 16 os, 11,127 19, 53,136 0 48, 64, 126 44,100 (Queen's nian EI 39,85,98 EIT st Els 2 Nimzo-Indian rat 32 Eas 7 King’s Indian El 5 en ” Ea 1,72 ESS 6 E90 0 En, 54,59