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Garry Kasparov

1963.04.13

The Game of the Century

Kasparov (2812) vs. Topalov (2700)

61^st Hoogovens Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 1999

Category XVIII (ELO 2678)
January 20, 1999 – Round 4

Veselin Topalov

1975.03.15

See how Kasparov annotated this game!

Silver Knights Chess
Immortal Games: Kasparov - Topalov
Video Commentary by IM Bryan Smith

73.7 MB (42 min)

[Event "Hoogovens (cat. 18)"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "1999.01.20"]
[Round "04"]
[White "Kasparov, Garry (RUS)"]
[Black "Topalov, Veselin (BUL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2812"]
[BlackElo "2700"]
[Opening "Pirc Defence"]
[ECO "B07"]
[PlyCount "87"]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 f6 3.c3 g6 4.e3 g7 5.d2 c6
6.f3 b5 7.ge2 bd7 8.h6 xh6 9.xh6 b7
10.a3 e5 11.0-0-0 e7 12.b1 a6 13.c1 0-0-0
14.b3 exd4! 15.xd4 c5 16.d1 b6! 17.g3 b8
18.a5 a8 19.h3 d5 20.f4+ a7 21.he1 d4
22.d5 bxd5 23.exd5 d6 24.xd4!! cxd4?!
25.e7+! b6 26.xd4+ xa5 27.b4+ a4 28.c3
xd5 29.a7 b7 30.xb7 c4 31.xf6 xa3?
32. xa6+ xb4 33.c3+! xc3 34.a1+ d2
35.b2+ d1 36.f1! d2 37.d7! xd7! 38.xc4
bxc4 39.xh8 d3 40.a8 c3 41.a4+ e1 42.f4 f5
43.c1 d2 44.a7
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Video Commentary by GM Kasparov

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Editor's Note

I have compiled over 100 different annotations of the famous game between Kasparov and Topalov into this file. (327 kB) Last modified: 15 June 2008

The annotations includes comments by several GM's, as Kasparov, Seirawan, Short, Kavalek, Ftacnik, Stohl, Byrne, Speelman, Winants and many others + some chess engines!

RYBKA 2.3.1 20 min/move P-IV 2.4 GHz 512 MB hash Analysis time (87-18)×20:60 = 23 hours

The comments are edited for easy use and conformity with the software.

ChessBase Light 2007

My foremost ambition was to make these
annotations easy to follow for the reader.

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