Thursday, September 24, 2009

Kasparov-Karpov Valencia 2009 - A Gruenfeld and Semi Slav lesson

The moment most waited in chess in this year is now over. Kasparov had played a match with Karpov just as in the old days and also still dominated his eternal rival. The match finished in the following conclusion :

Rapid Gary Kasparov - Anatoly Karpov 3-1
Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Garry 0-1 24 D72 Gruenfeld 3.g3
Kasparov, Garry - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 28 D31 Semi-Slav Defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Garry 1-0 36 D72 Gruenfeld 3.g3
Kasparov, Garry - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 33 D31 Semi-Slav Defence

Blitz Gary Kasparov - Anatoly Karpov 6-2
Kasparov, Garry - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 60 D31 Semi-Slav Defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Garry ½-½ 17 D22 QGA
Kasparov, Garry - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 51 D31 Semi-Slav Defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Garry 0-1 36 D72 Gruenfeld 3.g3
Kasparov, Garry - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 56 D31 Semi-Slav Defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Garry 0-1 26 D02 Queen's Pawn Game
Kasparov, Garry - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 96 D31 Semi-Slav Defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Garry ½-½ 25 D72 Gruenfeld 3.g3

As can be seen, both of them were having an intense conversation on two particular openings , the D72 Fianchetto Gruenfeld and D31 Semi-Slav. If somebody compiled a book for this match it will almost like an opening book for this two opening lines. The only concern is that these games were played under rapid & blitz time control.

D72 the Fianchetto Gruenfeld is the most interesting since it get both win by black and white, but for D31 Semi-Slav it's all won by White.

Kasparov............ - ..............Karpov

Karpov..............-.................. Kasparov

Fianchetto Gruenfeld (left) & Semi-Slav (right) ala Kasparov & Karpov

The next match will be on December this year and the place will be Paris. Meanwhile Anand will be intermezzoing in November by also played a rapid game with Karpov in Bastia and Ajaccio, both in France.

Bagi pembaca Indonesia berikut analysis pertandingan dari Chessdom setelah di translate ke Bahasa Indonesia melalui Google translate.

Partai 1 - Karpov - Kasparov 0-1

Partai 3 - Karpov - Kasparov 1-0

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