24.a3!
White prepares a route for his knight to d5. While this far from guarantees any significant advantage, it is at least something for White to work with. Black can't contest control of d5, but has prospects of counterplay against White's backward f- and h-pawns, and his bishop also has plenty of dark squares available.
24...Kh8?! 25.Na2 Qh3 26.Rg3 Qh5 27.Qg2! Rh4 28.h3 Qh6 29.Rb3
This is a very instructive moment. Controlling squares like d5 absolutely won't necessarily lead to a winning advantage without means of utilizing that control to deal a death blow to the opponent's position elsewhere. So White first softens Black up on the queenside.
29...b4 30.Nb4+/-.
White prepares a route for his knight to d5. While this far from guarantees any significant advantage, it is at least something for White to work with. Black can't contest control of d5, but has prospects of counterplay against White's backward f- and h-pawns, and his bishop also has plenty of dark squares available.
24...Kh8?! 25.Na2 Qh3 26.Rg3 Qh5 27.Qg2! Rh4 28.h3 Qh6 29.Rb3
This is a very instructive moment. Controlling squares like d5 absolutely won't necessarily lead to a winning advantage without means of utilizing that control to deal a death blow to the opponent's position elsewhere. So White first softens Black up on the queenside.
29...b4 30.Nb4+/-.
21.Bc6!
White strains to make the most of his chances. This move not only further constrains the potential activity of Black's bishop, by covering the b7- and d7-squares, but it also takes b5 away from Black's rook, which is beginning to look rather lost on e5. Black's rook now hurries to d8, before White himself takes the d-file, squeezing Black's game even more.
21...Rd8 22.e4 Kf8?! 23.Kf2 Ke7?
But now Black gets the tactics all wrong. He should still have played the more circumspect 23...g6. but not, of course, 23...Bd7?? 24.Rd1 Ke7 25.Rcd3, and White again wins that bishop.
24.b5!
Now, this breakthrough is crushing. In the main line, White's rooks penetrate decisively to the seventh rank.
24...axb5 25.Ra7+ Kf6
Black has no alternative.
26.Rf3+ Kg6 27.Rfxf7+-.
White strains to make the most of his chances. This move not only further constrains the potential activity of Black's bishop, by covering the b7- and d7-squares, but it also takes b5 away from Black's rook, which is beginning to look rather lost on e5. Black's rook now hurries to d8, before White himself takes the d-file, squeezing Black's game even more.
21...Rd8 22.e4 Kf8?! 23.Kf2 Ke7?
But now Black gets the tactics all wrong. He should still have played the more circumspect 23...g6. but not, of course, 23...Bd7?? 24.Rd1 Ke7 25.Rcd3, and White again wins that bishop.
24.b5!
Now, this breakthrough is crushing. In the main line, White's rooks penetrate decisively to the seventh rank.
24...axb5 25.Ra7+ Kf6
Black has no alternative.
26.Rf3+ Kg6 27.Rfxf7+-.
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C: d5 β 3
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B: Rd8 β 2
πππππ 40%
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C: d5 β 3
πππππππ 60%
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B: Rd8 β 2
πππππ 40%
Alexander, @RichardPeng
A: fΓe4
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Unity Chess Multiple Choice 520
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A: Re2 β 3
πππππππ 60%
@Djawad21, @Afshin3333, Ramesh
C: h5 β 2
πππππ 40%
@Amiiiin_tb, @RichardPeng
B: g4
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A: Re2 β 3
πππππππ 60%
@Djawad21, @Afshin3333, Ramesh
C: h5 β 2
πππππ 40%
@Amiiiin_tb, @RichardPeng
B: g4
β«οΈ 0%
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Analysis of the 10th match-game Korchnoi-Kasparov from the Candidates' Semi-final in London, 1983. L to R: A. Zeinalli, A. Nikitin, E. Vladimirov, G. Kasparov, G. Timoshchenko
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βͺοΈGarry Kasparov vs Viktor Korchnoi
Candidates Semi-final (1983), London
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