Looks at Books
The Making of a Champion
An excerpt from the Quality Chess release Karpov’s Strategic Wins 1 - The Making of a Champion By IM Tibor Karolyi
[Anatoly] Karpov participated in only one individual tournament in 1972, in San Antonio, Texas. The field was packed with strong American play- ers, in addition to a strong contingent of foreign grandmasters including [Tigran] Petrosian, [Lajos] Portisch, [Paul] Keres, [Bent] Larsen and [Vlastimil] Hort. In the first round Karpov faced the American IM Anthony Saidy with the black pieces. It was the only time they met over the board. Saidy faced all the world champions from [Mikhail] Tal to Karpov; out of thirteen games he drew three and lost ten (Anthony Saidy points out that this total is low; he lost many times just to Fischer. ~Chess Life editor). He wrote a book entitled The March of Chess Ideas, in which he discusses his meetings with those elite players.
Game 28 Anthony Saidy Anatoly Karpov San Antonio 1972
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 b5 Karpov played this ambitious move
three times and only dropped half a point. 3. Bg2 A year later [Viktor] Korchnoi tried 3.
c3!?, playing against the b5-pawn and in the center: 3. ... Bb7 4. a4 a6 5. e3 Nc6 6. d4 e6 7. b4 Be7 8. Nbd2 Na7 9. Bd3 0-0 10. e4 d6 11. 0-0 c5 12. bxc5 dxc5 13. Bb2 Nc6 14. e5 Nd5 15. axb5 axb5 16. Qb1 cxd4 17. cxd4 h6 18. Bxb5 Qb6.
(see diagram top of next column)
Black obtained decent positional com- pensation for the pawn, and later White
38 Chess Life — January 2012
blundered and lost, Korchnoi-Karpov,
r+-+-trk+ +l+-vlpzp- -wqn+p+-zp +L+nzP-+- -+-zP-+-+ +-+-+NzP- -vL-sN-zP-zP tRQ+-+RmK-
Analysis after 18. ... Qb6 Moscow 1973.
3. ... Bb7 4. 0-0 e6 5. d3 Be7 In 1978 Karpov deviated with 5. ... d6
against [Milan] Vukic, and the game ended
in a draw after a long fight. 6. e4 d6 7. a4 White tends to score better with the
standard King’s Indian Attack plan, involving moves like Re1 and Nbd2 fol- lowed by c3 and d4.
7. ... a6 8. axb5 axb5 9. Rxa8 Bxa8 10. Na3
lsn-wqk+-tr +-zp-vlpzpp -+-zppsn-+ +p+-+-+- -+-+P+-+ sN-+P+NzP- -zPP+-zPLzP +-vLQ+RmK-
After 10. Na3
uschess.org
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76