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Garry Kasparov vs Boris Spassky - Barcelona 1989 - Queen's Gambit Declined (D35) (Chessworld.net)
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Garry Kasparov vs Boris Spassky
Barcelona 1989 · Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange. Positional Variation (D35)
The fourth international chess tournament in a series of six organized by the
GMA from 1988 to 1989 as a World Cup was held in Barcelona, Spain from March
20th to April 20th, 1989. Twenty-four of the world's best grandmasters,
including the world champion and world vice-champion, were invited to
participate in the World Cup, seventeen of them appearing in Barcelona's
category XV event along with one national grandmaster to represent Spain as
host. The complete list of participants was (in order of ELO): Garry Kasparov
(2775), Nigel Short (2650), Alexander Beliavsky (2640), Jonathan Speelman
(2640), Valery Salov (2630), Zoltan Ribli (2625), Johann Hjartarson (2615),
Viktor Korchnoi (2610), Yasser Seirawan (2610), Artur Yusupov (2610), Predrag
Nikolic (2605), Robert Huebner (2600), Rafael Vaganian (2600), Ljubomir
Ljubojevic (2580), Boris Spassky (2580), Jesus Nogueiras (2575), and Miguel
Illescas-Cordoba (2525). This tournament was Kasparov's third consecutive
victory in the World Cup, although this time he shared his first place with
Ljubojevic.
Classical games: Garry Kasparov tied Boris Spassky 2 to 2, with 4 draws.
*The figures above are based only on games present in the chessgames.com database which may be incomplete.
Annotated PGN version:
[Event "Barcelona"]
[Site "Barcelona"]
[Date "1989.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[White "Garry Kasparov"]
[Black "Boris Spassky"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Annotator "Tryfon"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventDate "1989.??.??"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 Be7 7. Bd3 Nbd7
8. Nge2 Nh5 9. Bxe7 Qxe7 10. g4 Nhf6 11. Ng3 h6 12. h3 (12. Nf5 Qf8 13. h3 g6
14. Nh4) 12... Nb6 13. Qd2 Bd7 14. b3 g6 15. a4 a5 16. f3 h5 17. g5 Qd6 18.
Nge2 Ng8 19. e4 Ne7 20. Qf4 Qxf4 (20... Qb4 21. Kf2) 21. Nxf4 O-O 22. Nce2 h4
23. Ng2 Kg7 24. Kd2 dxe4 25. fxe4 Rad8 26. Raf1 (26. Nxh4 Rh8 27. Nf3 Rxh3 28.
Rxh3 Bxh3) 26... Rh8 27. Ne3 Rh5 28. Rfg1 Bc8 29. Kc3 Rhh8 30. Nf4 Rd6 31. Bc2
Na8 32. Nc4 Rdd8 33. Nxa5 Nc7 34. Rf1 b5 (34... b6 35. Nc4) 35. Rf3 Rhf8 36.
Rhf1 bxa4 37. bxa4 f6 38. Nxg6 Nxg6 (38... Kxg6 39. gxf6) (38... Kxg6 39. gxf6
Ng8 40. Nxc6 Rd7 41. Ne5+ Kh5 42. Rf5+) 39. gxf6+ Kh6 40. Nxc6 Rd6 41. d5 Rxc6+
42. dxc6 Ne6 43. e5 Nxe5 44. Re3 Ng6 (44... Nxc6 45. Re4 Ned4 (45... Ned8 46.
Rg1 Kh5) 46. Rxh4+ Kg5 47. Rxd4) 45. f7 Ngf4 46. Bb3 Kg7 47. Re4 Rxf7 48. Bxe6
Nxe6 49. Rxf7+ Kxf7 50. Rxh4 Ke7 51. Rh8 Ba6 52. h4 1-0
Unannotated PGN:
[Event "Barcelona"]
[Site "Barcelona"]
[Date "1989.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Garry Kasparov"]
[Black "Boris Spassky"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "103"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 c6 6.e3 Be7 7.Bd3
Nbd7 8.Nge2 Nh5 9.Bxe7 Qxe7 10.g4 Nhf6 11.Ng3 h6 12.h3 Nb6
13.Qd2 Bd7 14.b3 g6 15.a4 a5 16.f3 h5 17.g5 Qd6 18.Nge2 Ng8
19.e4 Ne7 20.Qf4 Qxf4 21.Nxf4 O-O 22.Nce2 h4 23.Ng2 Kg7 24.Kd2
dxe4 25.fxe4 Rad8 26.Raf1 Rh8 27.Ne3 Rh5 28.Rfg1 Bc8 29.Kc3
Rhh8 30.Nf4 Rd6 31.Bc2 Na8 32.Nc4 Rdd8 33.Nxa5 Nc7 34.Rf1 b5
35.Rf3 Rhf8 36.Rhf1 bxa4 37.bxa4 f6 38.Nxg6 Nxg6 39.gxf6 Kh6
40.Nxc6 Rd6 41.d5 Rxc6+ 42.dxc6 Ne6 43.e5 Nxe5 44.Re3 Ng6
45.f7 Ngf4 46.Bb3 Kg7 47.Re4 Rxf7 48.Bxe6 Nxe6 49.Rxf7+ Kxf7
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