This is a game between L. Portisch and A. Karpov about a month ago. Anatoly demonstrated that he has not lost his positional understanding of chess one bit.
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. e3 d5 5. Bd3 Bb7 6. b3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. Bb2Nbd7 9. Nc3 a6 10. Rc1 Qe7 11. Na4 dxc4 12. bxc4 c5 13. Ne5 Rfd8 14. Qc2 h6 15.h3 Rac8 16. Qe2 Bc7 17. Rfd1 cxd4 18. exd4 Nxe5 19. dxe5 Nd7 20. f4 Bc6 21. Nc3Nc5 22. Bb1 Rxd1+ 23. Rxd1 Rd8 24. Ba3 Rxd1+ 25. Qxd1 Qh4 26. Qd2 Qg3 27. Bxc5bxc5 28. Ne4 (Diagram) Bxe4 29. Bxe4 g5 30. fxg5 hxg5 31. Qf2 Qxe5 32. Qe2 Qd4+ 33. Kf1Bg3 34. Qc2 Qe3 0-1
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Thanks for showing this nice game Susan! I think Karpov played The Queens Indian, what line is this called? Susan I also have a hard question for you. I asked GM Larry Christiansen the same question awhile back on WCN. Here goes, if Fischer would have defended his Title vs Karpov back in 1972 who in your opinion would have won the match and why? Larry said Fischer would have won.
P.S. I love your site ; )
TFK
Fischer would have played Karpov in 1975. He played Spassky in 1972.
But Fischer would have crushed Karpov.
the Russians and Karpov knew this.
Yeah Tommy I meant 1975.
TFK
In the book “Russians Versus Fischer,” various documents suggest that Karpov and the Soviet chess hierarchy opposed Fischer’s 10 win, no draws counting proposal for the 1975 match because Karpov was so physically frail. They more or less knew that he couldn’t have taken the strain of that many games against Fischer. Conversely, Bobby had to know that Karpov would be most vulnerable in a long match because of his lack of vigor.
On the other hand Karpov was able to more or less stay with Kasparov in those marathon matches in the 80s..