CHESS
Scotch Game
Raymond Keene
The World Championship resumed at the Palais des Congres in Lyon last Satur- day with Karpov taking the advantage of the white pieces for the 13th game. For the second time in the match Kasparov re- sorted to his old flame the Grunfeld Defence and after a sharp opening tussle, during the course of which both players felt the need to sacrifice a rook for a menacing opposing knight, the game burnt out to a drawn rook and bishop ending. Kasparov tried to flog a dead horse until the adjourn- ment in his efforts to extract something but after the sealed move 42 Kxd3 Rxa4 42 d6 Black has to play 43 . . . Ral (threatening
. . Rdl +) when a draw by repetition occurs on 44 Kd2 Ra2+ 45 Kc3 Ral 46 Kc2 Ra2+ 47 Kd3 since White can never allow Black's rook to reach the 'd' file behind his own passed pawn.
Karpov — Kasparov: World Championship Fin- al; Game 13, Grunfeld Defence.
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 d5 4 cxd5 Nxd5 5 e4 Nxc3 6 bxc3 Bg7 7 Be3 c5 8 Qd2 0-0 9 Rcl Qa5 10 Nf3 e6 11 d5 exd5 12 exd5 Re8 13 Bet Bf5 14 0-0 Nd7 15 h3 Nb6 16 g4 Bd7 17 c4 Qxd2 18 Nxd2 Na4 19 Bf3 Nc3 20 Rxc3 Bxc3 21 Ne4 Rxe4 22 Bxe4 Re8 23 Bd3 b6 24 Kg2 f5 25 gxf5 Bxf5 26 Bxf5 gxf5 27 Rdl Kf7 28 Rd3 Bf6 29 Ra3 a5 30 Rb3 Bd8 31 Rc3 Bc7 32 a4 Kf6 33 Kfl f4 34 Bel Kf5 35 Rc2 Rb8 36 Re2 Bey 37 Bb2 Bd4 38 Bxd4 cxd4 39 Re7 d3 40 Kel Rc8 41 Kd2 Rxc4 Game adjourned and agreed drawn without resumption.
Kasparov — Karpov: World Championship Fin- al; Game 14, Scotch Game.
1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 This is the first time Kasparov has played the Scotch Game in this match; indeed, it may be the first time he has ever played the Scotch Game. The Scotch has only occurred twice in world championship matches, Steinitz-Zukertort, 1886, where Black played 3 . . . ed4 4 Nd4 Bc5 and Steinitz- Chigorin, 1892, when Black played 4 . . . Qh4. 3 . . . exd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nxc6 bxc6 6 e5 Qe7 7 Qe2 Nd5 8 c4 Ba6 9 b3 9 Qe4 Nb6 10 Nd2 0-0-0 11 c5 Bxfl 12 cxb6 Ba6 13 bxa7 was Timman-Karpov, London 1984. It is interesting that the a7 pawn seems to be Black's main weakness in this line, but because it is so far from the scene of the action it is often unimportant. 9 . . . 0-0-0 10 g3 Re8 11 Bb2 f612 Bg2 fxe5 13 0-0 h5 This all looks like Kasparov preparation since he had now used eight minutes to Karpov's 65. 14 Qd2 Nf6 15 Qa5 This wins back the pawn while simul- taneously the white queen crashes through to attack the black king. Once the queen is on a7 White can consider various ponderous attacking plans such as a4 – a5 – a6 or Na3 – c2 – b4 – a6. However, both of these are very slow and White has to reckon in the meantime with a backlash against his own king. 15 . . . Bb7 16 Ba3 Qe6 17 BxfB Rhxt 18 Qxa7 Qg4 An excellent counter- attacking move after which Kasparov thought for 53 minutes, a record for one move in this match, equal with Karpov's (game 4). 19 Na3 h4 20 Nc2 h3 21 Bhl Ne4 n a4 If 22 f3 Nxg3 23 Rf2 (23 fxg4 Ne2 mate) 23 . . Qg6 24 hxg3 Qxg3+ 25 Kfl c5 26 QxcS Bxf3 27 Bxf3 Rxf3 28 Rxf3 (42+ 29 Kel Qxf3 with sufficient compensa- tion. Kasparov prefers to wrench the attack into his own hands with a sacrifice of the exchange. 22 . • . Nc3 23 Rael Ne2+ 24 Rxe2 Qxe2 25 NM
Position after 25 Nb4
(Diagram) 25 . . . d5 The times taken were now 107 minutes for White and 135 for Black. Since each player has 150 minutes to escape to the time control at move 40 one can appreciate how seriously short of time Karpov was. It is all the more praiseworthy then that he plays for a win rather than going for 25 . . Rf3 26 Na6 Kd8 27 Qb8+ Ke7 28 Qxb7 Rxf2 29 0b4+ d6 30 Rf2 Qdl+ with a forced draw by perpetual check. 26 cxd5 cxd5 27 Bxd5 If instead 27 Nxd5 Qa6 28 0c5 Qd6 beats off the attack. 27 . . . Bxd5 28 Nxd5 Qc2 29 Qa6+ Kd7 30 Ne3 Qe4 31 Rcl Rb8 32 Qfl Rxb3 33 Qxh3+ Kd8 34 Qh5 Kc8 35 Qdl Rxe3 Kasparov had three minutes left and Karpov two, so it is understandable that Black did not wish to keep the tension going with a move like 35 . . . Qd3. The text assures him of a draw at worst and also rescues Karpov from his clock trouble. 36 fxe3 Qxe3+ 37 Khl Qe4+ 38 Kgl Qe3+ 39 Khl Qe4+ 40 Kgl Rd8 41 Qc2 Draw agreed. Kasparov sealed his 41st move. A superb duel in the same class as games 3 and 4 from New York.
As I write, England are sharing first place in the chess Olympics in Novi Sad in Yugoslavia and our team of Nigel Short, Jon Speelman, John Nunn, Michael Adams, Murray Chandler and Julian Hodgson has an excellent chance of car- rying off the gold medals for the very first time. The Hungarian women's team, which consists almost entirely of three Polgar sisters, is leading the female section, but they had a nasty fright in their match against the USSR where the veteran Gap- rindashvili destroyed the prodigy Judit.
Polgar — Gaprindashvili: Novi Sad Women's Olympiad; Petroff Defence.
1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 d4 Nxe4 4 Bd3 d5 5 NxeS Nd7 6 Nxd7 Bxd7 7 0-0 Qh4 8 c4 0-0-0 9 c5 g5 10 Nc3 Bg7 11 Ne2 Rhe8 12 Qel 12 f3 Nf6 13 Bd2 Rxe2 14 Qxe2 was played in Howell — Makarichev, Frunze 1989. 12 . . . Nf6 13 Qd2 Ne4 14 Qa5 Kb8 15 f3 Nf6 16 g3 Qh5 17 a4 Ng4 18 fxg4 Bxg4 19 Nf4 Bxd4+ 20 Kg2 gxf4 21 Bxf4 Be5 22 c6 Bc8 23 Qb4 Bd6 24 Qb3 Bxf4 25 Rxf4 Re3 26 Qc2 Qh3+ Position after 31 . . . Rc3
27 Khl Rxg3 28 cxb7 Bxb7 29 Rxfl Rc8 30 Bb5 d4+ 31 Bc6 Rc3 (Diagram) White resigns. After 32 bxc3 Bxc6+ 33 Kgl Rg8+ is murderous.
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