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| Mar-09-06 |
| alexandrovm: this game should be called "the monster knight", this knight is not only in a central square but covers important squares that leaves white hopeless. |
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| Mar-30-06 |
| Aseem: Correct me if am wrong but I think this was the last game of the Kasparov v Karpov 1985 match. Karpov needed a win to draw the series and retain the title. And just look at the guts that Gary Kasparov has, to play the Sicilian Najdorf in the last match that will decide who is the world champion. Any other player would have played Petroff or caro cann |
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Mar-30-06
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| Open Defence: < Aseem: Correct me if am wrong but I think this was the last game of the Kasparov v Karpov 1985 match. Karpov needed a win to draw the series and retain the title. And just look at the guts that Gary Kasparov has, to play the Sicilian Najdorf in the last match that will decide who is the world champion. Any other player would have played Petroff or caro cann > At that time Karpov had many anwsers to the Caro Kann and the Petroff (which were not Kasparov's main weapons of that Match anyway) .. the Najdorf was consistent in that Kasparov used it quite regularly as Black during that period I believe |
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Mar-30-06
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| keypusher: Hey, <Open Defence>, glad you are back! Yes, I think Kasparov gave up the Caro-Kann in 1980 or so. |
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Apr-17-06
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| Zebra: <Aseem: Correct me if am wrong but I think this was the last game of the Kasparov v Karpov 1985 match. Karpov needed a win to draw the series and retain the title. And just look at the guts that Gary Kasparov has, to play the Sicilian Najdorf in the last match that will decide who is the world champion. Any other player would have played Petroff or caro cann> Actually this is just the 16th out of 24, but the last game was also a Sicilian which Kasparov won in style. He did however regard this present game as his "greatest creative achievement" (in Unlimited Challenge, written in 1987). |
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| Jun-21-06 |
| kakhander: That horse was used in a beauty way. There is no more graceful a sight on the chess board than a horse used and placed in such a fashion.Horses are under-rated, maybe because lots of people don't know how to use them right( i include mysefl). |
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Jul-20-06
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| KingG: <This game must have a damaging effect on Karpov, because if I am correct this was last time that Karpov played 1.e4 against Kasparov: When you consider that during the 1980's 1.e4 was Karpov's first choice at a time when he virtually unbeatable with the white pieces!!> No, the game that made Karpov switch more or less permanently to 1.d4(against everyone, and not just Kasparov) was Karpov vs Kasparov, 1985. |
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| Aug-20-06 |
| SlickMick: I have studied many many games. This will always be my all time fav. For some1 as great as Karpov to loose like this is a great win for Kaspy. |
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Aug-20-06
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| you vs yourself: What a game! Never seen a more effective knight than the one Garry planted on d3. |
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| Nov-19-06 |
| jamesmaskell: The knight on d3 is known as an "octopus" due to the control its 8 'tentacles' have over the board. |
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Nov-19-06
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| keypusher: <Such games are remembered for a long time, and in particular by the winner himself, after literally putting part of his soul into the sustained realization of his plan. Earlier too I succeeded in carrying out pretty combinations, making spectacular sacrifices of material, and conducting complete strategic games, but none of my earlier creations on the chess board can compare with this 16th game as regards the grandiosity of the overall plan. There is one other important reason why I can confidently call this game my supreme creative achievement. The value of any brilliantly won game increases in accordance with the strength of the opponent. What is noteworthy is the fact that this victory was gained in a match for the World Championship, and over such a super-class opponent as Karpov.> --Kasparov, in his book on the match
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| Mar-08-07 |
| MichaelKing: They played the ending combo of this game in the TV show "Lost" tonight, although the show came off looking foolish because the computer said checkmate when Karpov resigned, which, of course, was not mate. |
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| Mar-28-07 |
| jmrulez2004: the reason this game could not be game of the day was because it was too complicated...there were too many complications there.....if there were 15 days a week..maybe....it shows kasparovs frigtening calculation abilities... |
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| Mar-31-07 |
| BlackNightmare: check the one to last lost episode (THE ACTUAL TV SHOW) when john lock was playing the chess pogram they used the same pattern as in this game, one of the writers must be a kasparov fan... cool |
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Apr-07-07
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| aazqua: This may be the best game ever.
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Didn't the players' poll for the celebration of the first 64 Informants vote this the best game of the previous 30 years (since 1966)? |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| Fisheremon: <Jim Bartle: Interesting point about Karpov's 1. e4, because in 1987 he refuted 8...d5 (the pawn sacrifice) with 12. Be3 against van der Wiel, getting a big advantage. Van der Wiel told Yasser Seirawan afterward: "If Karpov had played the way he played against me today, he might still be FIDE champion." (From Seirawan's Winning Chess Brilliancies)> Right, Kasparov wrote later that "the gambit" was not correct and disappeared. |
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Aug-10-07
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| kingscrusher: I have done a video annotation of this game which is actually one of my favourite all time Kasparov games because of the octopus knight on d3 :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a9g...
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| Aug-30-07 |
| mcgee: >>Didn't the players' poll for the celebration of the first 64 Informants vote this the best game of the previous 30 years (since 1966)?<< I believe so and difficult to disagree with the choice (although I was perplexed by it at the time - hindsight is always 20-20). For fairy-tale entertainment value I think Diemer v Trommsdorff, Bagneux 1975 is a bit better but I don't know if that was in Informant!!!! lol (it's in this database) |
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| Aug-30-07 |
| Jim Bartle: Only the "best" game from each of the first 64 Informants was in the voting. Diemer did not have any games in the Top Ten in that period. |
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| Aug-31-07 |
| mcgee: the point being that the Diemer game would have been lucky to feature at all in the relevant 1975 edition of Informant, let alone as the best game for that edition - I think the first time it came to light in the UK was when it appeared in Chess magazine in 1984 as a sample game from a collection of games played in France...? K-K game 16 1985 deserves the gong on a number of counts but D-T is emotionally and imaginatively rewarding on another level entirely :0) |
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| Dec-02-07 |
| capabaro07: capabaro07 lives in Brisbane and would like to know how this game got its name. Can anyone enlighten me? |
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Dec-02-07
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| Richard Taylor: I admire Kasparov's games but this game seems tome to be not very "great" - I feel I could have found most (if not all of) of the moves in the game - especially withe kind of opening prep & knowledge Kasp had - I mean I feel most club players (I mean the better club players)with a good knowledge of Chess ideas and tactics should find the moves. Whereas his game v Topalov - I found party of that combination but couldn't get it all ... that game was beyond me (apart from the initial sac and about 5 moves...I didn't see Topalov's moving down the board - only looked at the other way - but even when I did see it in the game I couldn't calculate the variations (or find quite few of K's moves - I found some) etc - but this game seems relatively straight foreward... Karpov has played greater games than this. Actually although I don't play in the style of Karpov (I get muddled with positional manoeuvres etc if they are too complex - but Karpov seems to have no problem with them -or he didn't when he was young) - I feel he was the greater player overall. But I am not a strong player so I might be talking ballocks! This is still an instructive and fairly pleasing game of course... |
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| Dec-02-07 |
| rigel1503: <capabaro07: capabaro07 lives in Brisbane and would like to know how this game got its name. Can anyone enlighten me?> Likewise I live in Brisbane Australia and would love to know how it got this name. I first studied this game in 1986 or 1987 when I purchased Ray Keene's and David Goodman's excellent book on the match. No reference to "Brisbane" there. |
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Dec-02-07
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| pawn to QB4: Hi rigel, see Pivotal Anorak's post on page 2 with link to a short story based on this game: http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/text/ja... |
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| Jun-29-08 |
| Avarus: A wonderful story that Master Jacobson. Well written and thought over. |
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