The game between Garry Kasparov (2812) and Veselin Topalov (2700) in the fourth round of the 1999 edition of the Hoogovens tournament in Wijk aan Zee is called Kaparov’s Immortal. The most noteworthy move of this game is the rook sacrifice on the 24th move. It is nice to replay the game and try to evaluate this position for yourself.
An annotated version of this game by Kasparov himself can be found here.
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2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 Bg7 5.Qd2 In ChessDB this line is called the Pirc: 4Be3, 150 Attack and its normal continuation is 5..c6 6f3 b5
8… Bxh6 9.Qxh6 Bb7 10.a3 e5 11.O-O-O Qe7 12.Kb1 a6 13.Nc1 O-O-O 14.Nb3 exd4 15.Rxd4 c5 16.Rd1 Nb6 17.g3 Kb8 18.Na5 Ba8 19.Bh3 d5 20.Qf4+ Ka7 21.Rhe1 d4 22.Nd5 Nbxd5 23.exd5 Qd6 24.Rxd4!! When Kasparov made this move, he already saw the idea 30…Rd6 31.Rb6 as well the move 37.Rd7 and he was hoping for 24…cxd4.
24… cxd4
( 24… Kb6! would have spoiled the fun unless he had found the move 25.Nb3! ( But he later told that he intended to play 25.b4 that will probably would have resulted in a draw. After 25... Qxf4 26.Rxf4 Nxd5 27.Rxf7 cxb4 28.axb4 Nxb4 29.Nb3 Rd6 Black has even a clear advantage ) )
25.Re7+ Kb6 26.Qxd4+ Kxa5 27.b4+ Ka4 28.Qc3 Qxd5 29.Ra7 Bb7 30.Rxb7 Qc4 31.Qxf6 Kxa3 32.Qxa6+ Kxb4 33.c3+ Kxc3 34.Qa1+ Kd2 35.Qb2+ Kd1 36.Bf1 Rd2 37.Rd7 Rxd7 38.Bxc4 bxc4 39.Qxh8 Rd3 40.Qa8 c3 41.Qa4+ Ke1 42.f4 f5 43.Kc1 Rd2 44.Qa7 1-0
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July 8th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Please, how I can make put a Java board (and the moves of my games) like yours in my own blog?
Thanks a lot!
July 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I don’t use Java, but JavaScript by means of my own WordPress plugin, based on palview, under development. As described in Chess Exercises I also use a chess widget, that is free to download and is far more appealing, but which I consider less usefull for the chess lessons.
In addition to this possibility I have seen that the site Chess Publishing gives a nice overview with examples of alternatives to publish chess games on a blogsite.