CHESS
SWIFT ascent
Raymond Keene
TBrussels he SWIFT tournament ended in a triumph for Kasparov and the Yugoslav Grandmaster Ljubojevic. While the world champion is used to this kind of success, it was the greatest achievement of his career for `Ljubo', as he is generally known. The margin of victory over the third-placed Karpov must be encouraging for Kasparov in his preparation for the fourth bout of their world championship struggle later this year. Karpov and Kasparov fought out their 100th duel in round 10. Kasparov could gain solace from this too, since he escaped from a poor opening and even came close to winning.
Karpov-Kasparov: Reti Opening.
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 g3 c5 4 Nf3 cxd4 5Nxd4 Qc7 6 b3 Bg7 7 Bg2 d5 8 cxd5 Nxd5 9 0-0 Qd7 10 Bbl 0-0 11 Qcl Rd8 12 Rdl Nc6 13 Nxc6 Qxc6 14 Qxc6 bxc6 15 Bxg7 Kxg7 16 Rd Bg4 17 Kfl a5 18 h3 Be6 19 Nc3 Nxc3 20 Rxc3 Rd2 21 Rxc6 RadS 22 Reel Rb2 23 Rcbl Rdd2 24 Rxb2 Rxb2 25 Rccl Rb2 26 Kdl g5 27 Bd5 Kf6 28 Bc4 e6 29 g4 Bg6 30 a4 Ke5 31 Rd Kd4 32 Bb5 Rxb3 33 Rc4+ Ke5 34 Rc7 Rxh3 35 Raj Kd4 36 Kd2 Rh2 37 f3 h5 38 RxaS hxg4 39 fxg4 Rg2 40 Bc6 Rxg4 41 Rb5 Kc4 42 Rb7 Rg1 43 Be8 Rat 44 Bxf7 Bxf7
The SWIFT Tournament, Brussels, 10-24 April
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total 1 Kasparov X V2 Y2 V2 V2 1 1 1 V2 1 1 1
81/2
2 Ljubojevic 1/2 X 1/2 V2 1 1/2 1 1/2 1 1 1 1 81/2 3 Karpov 1/2
1/2 X ih
1 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1 1 7 4 Tillman 1/2 1/2 V2 X 1 V2 0 V2 1/2 1 1 1/2 61/2
5 Korchnoi 1/2
0 0 0 X 1/2 1 1 V2 1 1 1 61/2 6 Tat 0 1/2 1/2 1/2
1/2 X 1/2 V2 1/2 1 1/2
1 6
7 Larsen 0 0 1/2 1 0 1/2 X V2 1 0 1 1 51/2 8 Van der Wiel 0 V2 V2 1/2
0 V2 V2 X V2 1 1/2 V2
5
9 Torre V2 0 Y2 1/2 V2 1/2 0 Vi. X 1/2 Y2
1 5 10 Winants 0 0 V2 0 0 0 1 0 V2 X V2 1 31/2 11 Short 0 0 0 0 0 1/2 0 V2 1/2 V2 X 1 3 12 Moulders 0 0 0 1/2 0 0 0 1/2 0 0 0 X 1
45 Rxf7 Rxa4 46 Rg7 Ra5 47 e3 Ra2+ 48 Kel e5 49 RxgS e4 50 Rg8 Kd3 51 Rb8 Re2+ 52 Kfl Rc2 53 Kel Draw agreed.
Ljubojevic's win as White against Kor- chnoi earned a special prize decided by the players themselves on a majority vote. I pick up the position in its instructive concluding phase. From the diagram Position before 39 Qe6!!
it continues: 39 Qe6!! Qxdl 40 Bc4 Qc2+ 41 Kh3 Qxc4 42 Qxc4 Bc5 43 Qg4 NIS 44 Qd5 Kh7 45 1(.13 Kh8 46 Ke4 Kh7 47 Kd3 Kh8 48 Kc4 Kh7 49 Kb5 Kh8 50 Kc6 Kh7 51 Kc7 h5 52 Kd8 Kh6 53 Ke8 Black resigns on account of 53 . . . Kh7 54 IC17 Kh6 55 Kg8 followed by Q17: My final extract from the tournament is Kasparov's dynamic demolition of Tal from the last round: Kasparov-Tal: Nimzo Indian Defence.
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 e3 0-0 5 Bd3 d5 6 cxd5 exd5 7 Nge2 c5 8 0-0 Nc6 9 a3 cxd4 10 exd4 Bxc3 11 bxc3 Ne7 12 Qc2 Bd7 13 Bg5 Ng6 14 f4 h6 15 Bxf6 Qxf6 16 f5 Ne7 17 Ng3 Nc8 18 Rf4 Nd6 19 Qf2 Rfe8 20 Nh5 Qd8 21 Nxg7 Ne4 22 Bxe4 Rxe4 23 f6 Kh7 24 Rxe4 dxe4 25 Qf4 Bc6 26 Rel Qf8 27 c4 Qxa3 28 Nf5 Q18 29 Re3 Bd7 30 Rg3 BxfS 31 QxfS+ Black resigns.
Two days after the main event Kaspaiov scored an overwhelming victory in the SWIFT one-day world championship. In a tournament of 22 rounds played at the extraordinarily rapid rate of 5 minutes per player per game, Kasparov notched up 17 points out of a possible 22. He headed Jan Timman (Holland) 15; Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Yugoslavia) and Anatoly Kar- pov (USSR) 121/2; Robert Hubner (West Germany) 12; Viktor Korchnoi (Switzer- land) and Nigel Short (UK) 11. Tal, Larsen, van der Wiel, Sosonko and Torre completed the field. The rules strangely allowed a subsequent challenge from the number two in the tournament. Gary won this mini-match against Timman by 11/2 points to 1/2. Nigel Short distinguished himself by winning one game each against Kasparov and Karpov and both of his games against Viktor Korchnoi.
The SWIFT Quickplay World Cham- pionship also provided a further showcase for the British (Intelligent Chess) electro- nic technology used during the London leg of the world championship match. This demonstrated all 134 games played in the five-hour period at split-second speed to an audience of 500 spectators.
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