Illinois Chess Bulletin Julio - Agosto 2002 | Page 20

Memorable Meetings
52.Nxe6+ Kf7 53.Ng5+ Ke7 54.Qb7+ and Qxb1
winning) 50…c3 51.Nxf8 Kxf8 52.Rxh7 Qf4 53.Qxf4
Nxf4 54.Kf1 a5 55.Ra7 Nd5 56.Rxa5 Kf7 (Setting a
trap: 57.Ke2 Nf4+ 58.Kf3? c2 59.Rc5 Nd3 60.Rxc2
Ne1+) 57.g3 1:0

Inoffensive is 11.Nxe4 dxe4 12.Bxe6 fxe613.Nd2 Qd5
14.Qg4 Nxe5 15.Qxe4 Rad8, Besides, in this variation
black has the interesting possibility 12…ef3, e.g.
13.Bd5 Nxe5 or 13.Qd5 Nb4 14.Qxd8 Raxd8 15.Bb3
c5.

The last time Garry visited Minsk was in 1979.
Garry came to the final USSR championship, in which
many famous grandmasters competed, Garry one of
the favorites among them. The start was brilliant - five
out of five! The next day Kasparov agreed to read a
lecture and lead a simultaneous in the Belarussian
Institute of Technology, where I worked at that time.
On the way to the institute, Alexander Nikitin, Garry's
coach, offered to conduct the simul himself while Garry
read the lecture and answered questions. This offer
was totally rejected. Before the start of the simul, Garry
asked me to point out the strongest participants to him,
and I did. Ironically, a young beginner whom I did not
know, was the only one to win against Kasparov in the
simul.

11…Bg4.
In my opinion, more promising was 11…N:d2 12.Qxd2
Qd7.
12.Nxe4 dxe4 13.Qd5! exf3.
In the endgame arising after 13…Qxd5 14.Bxd5 exf3
15.Bxc6 fxg2 16.Kxg2 Rad8 17.a4, White has a clear
advantage. This was already demonstrated in a game
from the Alekhine - Teichman match, in Berlin 1921!
14.Qxc6 fxg2 15.Qxg2 Qd7 Bh6!

The next day, an unexpected event occurred Kasparov, in the lead, lost to one of the outsiders Anikaev. Garry did not take the loss well at all. His
mother told me later that he could not fall asleep for a
long time. “You can't imagine what it means - to lose to
Anikaev on stage,” he said.
It became clear how closely the fans watched
Kasparov's success and failures on the very next day,
when the Baku press released the statement,
”Kasparov tired in the simultaneous, and lost the game
in the championship.” However, all ended well. Garry
rd
th
Kasparov split 3 and 4 place with grandmaster
Balashov, becoming a medallist of one of the most
important national tournaments on his second attempt.
Only veterans Yefim Geller and Artur Yusupov passed
him by. Now that was a victory!
Garry Kasparov – Artur Yusupov
Spanish

16…gxh6 17.f3 h5? 18.Rad1 Qf5 19.fxg4 Qxe5
C80

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4
6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Be3.
A little investigated continuation which is not at
all bad. 9…Na5 was considered to be a sufficient
response, but in Kupreichik - Slutsky, USSR 1979,
White had an advantage after the simple 10.Nd4 Qd7
11.Qe1 Nxb3 12.axb3 Be7 13.b4.
9…Be7 10.Nbd2 0-0 11.c3

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19…Qxg4 20.Rd7 leads to a difficult ending. Taking on
e5 leaves Black with the hope of equalizing the game
in the event of the tiniest inaccuracy by White. Thus
20.Rxf7 Kh8! yields nothing, or 20.Rf5 Qe3+ 21.Kh1
Rad8 22.Rdf1 Kh8.
20.Rde1! Qc5+ 21.Kh1 Rad8?
This loses a piece, but is very difficult to point out any
kind of useful continuation for Black After 21…Rae8
22.Rf5 Qd6 23.Rxf7 Rxf7 24.gxh5+ Kf8 25.Rg1 Bh4!
26.Qg8+ Ke7 27.Qxf7+ Kd8 28.Rd1+ black has good
drawing chances. Stronger is 23.gxh5+ Kh8 24.Rxf7
Rxf7 25.Bxf7 Rf8 26.Rg1 with an unstoppable attack.

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