Our missed chances and shared mistakes with Kasparov, 1993

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Our missed chances and shared mistakes with Kasparov, 1993

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Hi all,

I was digging through my old chess stuff when I came across this signed score sheet when Kasparov played a charity simultaneous against 25 teams of 4 in February 1993.

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In fairness to Kasparov one of the teams was a team containing a GM & an IM who had planned a particular line against him, so he spent a lot of time at their board, and beat them!

This was 25 years ago and I remember the highs and lows of the game, especially when Raymond Keene & Jonathon Speelman approached us at the end and said we had a totally won position when we moved our bishop & asked Kasparov for a draw.

Here’s the game, an annotated version can be played through on Lichess: https://lichess.org/Kjazh39T#0

[Event "Kasparov 25 Board Simultaneous”]
[Site "London, United Kingdom GB"]
[Date "1993.02.17"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Al, Brian, Haydn & Don"]
[Black "Garry Kasparov"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "@1900"]
[BlackElo "@2750"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 Bd6 6. e4 O-O 7. Bd3 Re8 8.Nge2 a6 9. a4 Bc7 10. O-O d6 11. Bg5 Nbd7 12. f4 Bb6 13. Kh1 c4 14. Bxc4 Qc7 15. Bd3 Ng4 16. e5 Nf2+ 17. Rxf2 Bxf2 18. Ne4 Bc5 19. N2g3 dxe5 20. f5 f6 21.d6 Qb6 22. Bc4+ Kh8 23. Bh4 Qd8 24. Nh5 b5 25. Bd5 Ra7 26. axb5 axb5 27. Rxa7 Bxa7 28. Qg4 Rg8 29. h3 g5 30. Bxg8 Qxg8 31. Nhxf6 Qc4 32. Kh2 Nxf6 33. Nxf6 Qxg4 34. hxg4 gxh4 35. d7 Bxd7 36. Nxd7 Bd4 1/2-1/2

The 2 critical positions for us were:

After Whites Move 33.

[fen]2b4k/b6p/3P1N2/1p2pPp1/2q3QB/7P/1P4PK/8 b - - 0 33[/fen]
Here Qf1 is mate in 11, funnily enough we never saw it & played Qxg4?

... and our final move was here when we played Bd4 and offered Kasparov a draw which he accepted, when e4 wins outright :oops:

[fen]7k/b2N3p/8/1p2pP2/6Pp/8/1P4PK/8 b - - 0 36[/fen]

Still, it’s nice to reminisce 25 years later and do proper analysis on strong hardware.


Missed opportunities

Al.
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Re: Our missed chances and shared mistakes with Kasparov, 19

Post by SedarPL »

Scally wrote:Hi all,

I was digging through my old chess stuff when I came across this signed score sheet when Kasparov played a charity simultaneous against 25 teams of 4 in February 1993.

Image

In fairness to Kasparov one of the teams was a team containing a GM & an IM who had planned a particular line against him, so he spent a lot of time at their board, and beat them!

This was 25 years ago and I remember the highs and lows of the game, especially when Raymond Keene & Jonathon Speelman approached us at the end and said we had a totally won position when we moved our bishop & asked Kasparov for a draw.

Here’s the game, an annotated version can be played through on Lichess: https://lichess.org/Kjazh39T#0

[Event "Kasparov 25 Board Simultaneous”]
[Site "London, United Kingdom GB"]
[Date "1993.02.17"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Al, Brian, Haydn & Don"]
[Black "Garry Kasparov"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "@1900"]
[BlackElo "@2750"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 Bd6 6. e4 O-O 7. Bd3 Re8 8.Nge2 a6 9. a4 Bc7 10. O-O d6 11. Bg5 Nbd7 12. f4 Bb6 13. Kh1 c4 14. Bxc4 Qc7 15. Bd3 Ng4 16. e5 Nf2+ 17. Rxf2 Bxf2 18. Ne4 Bc5 19. N2g3 dxe5 20. f5 f6 21.d6 Qb6 22. Bc4+ Kh8 23. Bh4 Qd8 24. Nh5 b5 25. Bd5 Ra7 26. axb5 axb5 27. Rxa7 Bxa7 28. Qg4 Rg8 29. h3 g5 30. Bxg8 Qxg8 31. Nhxf6 Qc4 32. Kh2 Nxf6 33. Nxf6 Qxg4 34. hxg4 gxh4 35. d7 Bxd7 36. Nxd7 Bd4 1/2-1/2

The 2 critical positions for us were:

After Whites Move 33.

[fen]2b4k/b6p/3P1N2/1p2pPp1/2q3QB/7P/1P4PK/8 b - - 0 33[/fen]
Here Qf1 is mate in 11, funnily enough we never saw it & played Qxg4?

... and our final move was here when we played Bd4 and offered Kasparov a draw which he accepted, when e4 wins outright :oops:

[fen]7k/b2N3p/8/1p2pP2/6Pp/8/1P4PK/8 b - - 0 36[/fen]

Still, it’s nice to reminisce 25 years later and do proper analysis on strong hardware.


Missed opportunities

Al.

Nice game :-)
Good memories..
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