At 5:30 , why not an immediate Bh6? Does that not also win the exchange? I could see Qa4 being better, but it doesn't seem all that necessary from what I can see.
+Riley Olson Interesting point but the Knight on f8 ends up trapping the bishop with apparent equality from an engine perspective with the incoming threat Kg7 to win the bishop: The sequence I am talking about without Qa4 to drive the knight back is as follows: Bh6 Re8 Bf7 Rf8! Bxf8 Nxf8 You see the knight is covering the bishops escape here - the bishop is trapped 2: Garry Kasparov - Anatoly Karpov, Wch Moscow i 38/664 1984 r2q1n1k/pb2bB1p/1p3pp1/2pp4/3P4/P4NP1/1PQ1PP1P/R3K2R w KQ - 0 1 Analysis by Stockfish 6 64: 1. = (0.00): 18.dxc5 Bxc5 19.b4 Bd6 20.Rd1 Kg7 21.Bxd5 Bxd5 22.Rxd5 Bxb4+ 23.axb4 Qxd5 24.0-0 Rd8 25.Rc1 Rd7 26.Kg2 Ne6 27.Qc8 Rd8 28.Qa6 Rd7 29.Qc8 2. -/+ (-1.20): 18.h4 Kg7 19.Bxg6 Nxg6 20.h5 Nf8 21.Kf1 Kh8 22.Kg2 Bd6 23.e3 Ne6 24.Rad1 Ng5 25.Nh4 Rc8 26.Qf5 Qe7 27.Qd3 cxd4 28.Nf5 Qd7 29.Nxd6 Qxd6 30.exd4 Ne4 31.Rhe1 Rg8 (Doe, 22.11.2015)
I'd love to see a decisive analysis of the final position. Was Karpov's resignation a blunder ?
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Extremely interesting, thanks!
At 5:30 , why not an immediate Bh6? Does that not also win the exchange? I could see Qa4 being better, but it doesn't seem all that necessary from what I can see.
+Riley Olson Interesting point but the Knight on f8 ends up trapping the bishop with apparent equality from an engine perspective with the incoming threat Kg7 to win the bishop:
The sequence I am talking about without Qa4 to drive the knight back is as follows:
Bh6 Re8
Bf7 Rf8!
Bxf8 Nxf8
You see the knight is covering the bishops escape here - the bishop is trapped
2: Garry Kasparov - Anatoly Karpov, Wch Moscow i 38/664 1984
r2q1n1k/pb2bB1p/1p3pp1/2pp4/3P4/P4NP1/1PQ1PP1P/R3K2R w KQ - 0 1
Analysis by Stockfish 6 64:
1. = (0.00): 18.dxc5 Bxc5 19.b4 Bd6 20.Rd1 Kg7 21.Bxd5 Bxd5 22.Rxd5 Bxb4+ 23.axb4 Qxd5 24.0-0 Rd8 25.Rc1 Rd7 26.Kg2 Ne6 27.Qc8 Rd8 28.Qa6 Rd7 29.Qc8
2. -/+ (-1.20): 18.h4 Kg7 19.Bxg6 Nxg6 20.h5 Nf8 21.Kf1 Kh8 22.Kg2 Bd6 23.e3 Ne6 24.Rad1 Ng5 25.Nh4 Rc8 26.Qf5 Qe7 27.Qd3 cxd4 28.Nf5 Qd7 29.Nxd6 Qxd6 30.exd4 Ne4 31.Rhe1 Rg8
(Doe, 22.11.2015)
Why Karpov didn't play g7-g5 at 4:45? Is that a bad move?
I wonder if Leela would have played g7. In the endgame, the exposed black king was a bigger liability than being a pawn down.
eheh I like the expression. in broad day light