Qr Q Kb Pqn Kb Q N Qq Q N Pq
With the creation of a strong QP, Karpov achieves enough counter-play to draw this inferior position. 26 Q B6 Q-Q3 27 Q.-N7 K-N3 28PxPPxP29Qx KNP P-Q5 30 PxP PxP 31 Qr-K2 P-Q6 32 Q-Q2QrQ5 33P-N3i-i 1 P-K4 P-QB4 2 N-QB3 N-QB3 3 P-KN3 P-KN3 4 B-N2 B-N2 5 P-Q3 P-K3 6 P-B4 P-Q3 7 N-B3 KN-K2 8 0-0 0-0 9 R-Nl R-Nl 10 B-Q2 P-QN4 11 P-QR3 P-B4 12 P-QN4 QBP x P 13 RP x P P-QR4 14 N-R2 RPxP 15 NxP NxN 16 BxN N-B3 17 B-QR3 P-N5 18 B-N2 P-K4 19 KPxP BxP 20 N-Q2 Q-Q2 21 N-B4 B-N5 22 Q Q2 PxP 23 BxB KxB 24...
Helmut Pfleger Article Karpov
On February 24 1972, Anatoly Karpov discussed the Hastings tournament at the Moscow Central Chess Club. The international tournament at Hastings, over a period of many years, took place as a rule with ten participants. In recent years this formula has begun to be outmoded. Over such a short distance the players avoided risks because even one defeat could have a fatal significance on the result. The tournament table was decorated with frequent draws. The element of fight was kept to a minimum....
BQ Jlp
According to Petrosian and Keres, analysing this position in the press-bureau, here White should play 33 Q-K6 The endgame after 33 . . . Q-B8 34 K-R4 Q-B3 35 Q x Q being considered as highly promising for White. Now the black pieces become active. 39 K-N2 looks better now Black gets some initiative. Here the game was adjourned and Black sealed his move. We now follow the comments made by Furman in a newspaper article under the title of The Knight's Move. There is a knight's move here the reader...
NN Ptp
8 Q-Q2 is usual. Theory does not regard the text as being difficult for Black. The ending after 8 . . . Q-K6 9 Q-K2 QxQ 10 B xQ is rather better for White he not only has the better development, but also the possibility of directing fire at Black's QP. 10 NxP is no good 11 BxB NxN 12 QxN KxB 13 QxP . One would like to play P-N4 first and then B-N3, but after 12 P-N4 a reply typical of such positions is available in the form of 12 . . . P-KN4, capturing the dark squares. After the text move it...
Info Xuv
Board 1 Karpov 7 9 77-8 , H bner 94 13 73-1 , Rogoff 7 10 70-0 . The USSR team of Karpov, Balashov, Tukmakov, Vaganian, Podgayets and Anikayev was quite probably the strongest team ever seen at a student Olympiad. Alan Perkins of the English team mentioned some interesting points in the British Chess Magazine, Sept. 1972 'Balashov has obviously benefited from Russian training methods in one respect at least he is noticeably physically more substantial than formerly. One feels that Karpov has...