Implications and Drama

Game 1 - London commentary reaches low point!

The commentators to the game managed to lose track of the position, and started to analyse a completely different position to the one on the board to the bewilderment of the specatators. By the time they realised this, the game had progressed quite far. A respected International master turned up to their relief, whom they said would put the audience up to date. The IM's reply was the memorable:-

"I'm so pissed I can't stand up."

Game 2 - The bad move by Kasparov

Kasparov missed an easy win from the following position:-

Kasparov could have played Rc7! 
with threats of Nxe5 and Rxd7+ followed by Nxe5+
Instead Kasparov played Ne3 and the game was later drawn

Kasparov had been three games ahead, but Karpov managed to win three games in row(!) to level the scores causing Kasparov to wonder if a breach of trust had occurred

"What had gone wrong? I think it was Yevgeny Vladimirov, my trusted second for five and a half years. He was discovered copying into a notebook the details of an opening move we had just beeen working on. He said they were for himself, for his own benefit, so that he would remember. But he had never made such notes before. And he had also been acting strangely. He had gone off for long periods from the training camp without saying where he was going. He had been missing before the resumption of the eighteenth game, which Karpov won in a text-book ending. I cannot prove that Vladimirov's notes were given to Karpov, but in my own mind my three consecutive defeats can be explained more easily if he knew what opening moves I was going to play and what strategy I was going to adopt. Unlike the situation in our previous match, I had no advantage over Karpov in the matter of openings. I just assumed he had been doing more homework on this side of the game." Kasparov wrote in Child of change

Game 11 saw an incredible blunder by Karpov

Game 16 was according to Gary Kasparov the best game of this match. Gary claims he had it all worked out from move 32

(813) Kasparov Garry - Karpov,A [C92/06]

Game 22 saw the Nd7 sealed which was regarded as the most famous move in the match - and one of the most memorable in the history of chess:-

Kasparov,G - Karpov,A [D55]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.e3 0–0 8.Rc1 c6 9.Bd3 Nd7 10.0–0 dxc4 11.Bxc4 e5 12.h3 exd4 13.exd4 Nb6 14.Bb3 Bf5 15.Re1 a5 16.a3 Re8 17.Rxe8+ Qxe8 18.Qd2 Nd7 19.Qf4 Bg6 20.h4 Qd8 21.Na4 h5 22.Re1 b5 23.Nc3 Qb8 24.Qe3 b4 25.Ne4 bxa3 26.Nxf6+ Nxf6 27.bxa3 Nd5 28.Bxd5 cxd5 29.Ne5 Qd8 30.Qf3 Ra6 31.Rc1 Kh7 32.Qh3 Rb6 33.Rc8 Qd6 34.Qg3 a4 35.Ra8 Qe6 36.Rxa4 Qf5 37.Ra7 Rb1+ 38.Kh2 Rc1 39.Rb7 Rc2 40.f3 Rd2 41.Nd7 (see diagram above) Rxd4 42.Nf8+ Kh6 43.Rb4 Rc4 44.Rxc4 dxc4 45.Qd6 c3 46.Qd4 1–0

 won 12½-11½

Implications and Drama

Kasparov lost to UK's Nigel Short!

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.Qd2 b5 8.f3 Nbd7 9.g4 h6 10.0–0–0 Bb7 11.Bd3 Ne5 12.Rhe1 Rc8 13.Kb1 Be7 14.h4 b4 15.Na4 Qa5 16.b3 Nfd7 17.g5 g6 18.f4 Nxd3 19.cxd3 hxg5 20.hxg5 d5 21.f5 e5 22.exd5 Qxd5 23.f6 Bd6 24.Nc2 a5 25.Ba7 Kf8 26.Ne3 Qe6 27.Nc4 Kg8 28.Nxd6 Qxd6 29.Nb2 Rc3 30.Nc4 Qd5 31.Ne3 Qe6 32.Rc1 Qa6 33.Rxc3 bxc3 34.Qxc3 Qxa7 35.Qc7 Qd4 36.Qxb7 Qxd3+ 37.Nc2 Rh2 38.Qc8+ Nf8 39.Rxe5 Rh1+ 40.Kb2 Qd2 41.Re8 Qd6 42.Rd8 Qe5+ 43.Ka3 Kh7 44.Rxf8 Qd6+ 45.b4 1–0