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Garry Kasparov's cute little chess miniature against John Nunn at Brussels 1986

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â–ºSupport the channel by donating via PayPal: http://goo.gl/7HJcDq â–ºPlaylists: http://goo.gl/FxpqEH â–ºFREE online chess at http://www.chessworld.net/chessclubs/asplogin.asp?from=1053 or realtime at http://www.chessclub.com/from/kingscrusher â–ºFollow me at Google+ : http://www.google.com/+kingscrusher Game score [Event "Brussels"] [Site "Brussels"] [Date "1986.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Garry Kasparov"] [Black "John Nunn"] [ECO "E60"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "35"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 c6 5.Bg2 d5 6.cxd5 cxd5 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Ne5 e6 9.O-O Nfd7 10.f4 Nxe5 11.fxe5 Nc6 12.e4 dxe4 13.Be3 f5 14.exf6 Rxf6 15.Nxe4 Rxf1+ 16.Qxf1 Nxd4 17.Rd1 e5 18.Ng5 1-0 Annotated PGN [Event "Brussels"] [Site "Brussels"] [Date "1986.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Garry Kasparov"] [Black "John Nunn"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D79"] [PlyCount "39"] [EventDate "1986.??.??"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. g3 c6 5. Bg2 d5 6. cxd5 cxd5 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Ne5 e6 (8... Bf5) (8... Nbd7) 9. O-O Nfd7 10. f4 Nxe5 (10... Nc6 11. Be3 Nb6 12. Bf2 Bd7 13. e4 Ne7 14. Nxd7 Qxd7 15. e5) 11. fxe5 Nc6 12. e4 (12. Be3 f6 13. exf6 Rxf6 14. Qd2 Bd7 15. Rxf6) 12... dxe4 13. Be3 f5 14. exf6 Rxf6 15. Nxe4 Rxf1+ (15... Rf8 16. Rxf8+ Qxf8 17. d5 exd5 18. Qxd5+ Kh8 19. Nd6) 16. Qxf1 Nxd4 (16... Bxd4 17. Bxd4 Nxd4 (17... Qxd4+ 18. Kh1 Qg7 19. Rd1 {White better here}) 18. Rd1 e5 19. Nf6+ Kg7 20. Nd5 Be6 21. Qe1 Qd6) (16... Bd7 17. Rd1 Nb4 18. Bg5 Qc7 19. Nf6+) 17. Rd1 e5 (17... Rb8 18. Qc4 b5 19. Rxd4 Bxd4 20. Qxd4) (17... Qb6 18. Nf6+ Bxf6 19. Qxf6 Ne2+ 20. Kf2) 18. Ng5 Kh8 (18... Qf8 19. Qc4+ Kh8 20. Nf7+ Kg8 21. Nxe5+ Be6 22. Bd5 Nf3+ 23. Nxf3 Qxf3 24. Bxe6+ Kh8 25. Qc1 ) (18... Qe7 19. Bd5+ Be6 (19... Kh8 20. Nf7+ Kg8 21. Bxd4 exd4 22. Ng5+ Kh8 23. Re1 Be6 (23... Qf8 24. Nf7+ Kg8 25. Nd6+ Kh8 26. Re8 {Winning queen}) 24. Nxe6) 20. Rxd4 exd4 21. Bxe6+ Kh8 22. Nf7+ Kg8 23. Nd8+ Kh8 24. Bg5 Qb4 (24... Qxg5 25. Nf7+) 25. Nf7+ Kg8 26. Ne5+ Kh8 27. Nxg6+ hxg6 28. Qh3+ Bh6 29. Qxh6# {Some days later, a local fan produced the fascinating news that this whole sequence up to 28.Qh3+ 1-0 had been played some months earlier in a game Hjort v M.Andersson. It was published in a Swedish publication for CC games. Kasparov had not seen it, though his second Nikitin mentions in 64 that it was tempting to increase Kasparov's already great authority by claiming that he had!' (BCM, April 1987)}) (18... Qf6 19. Qc4+ Be6 20. Nxe6 Nxe6 21. Rd6 Re8 22. Bd5 Kf7 23. Bxe6+ Rxe6 24. Bg5 Qf5 25. Rd7+ Kg8 26. Rd8+ Kf7 27. Qc7+) 19. Nf7+ Kg8 20. Nxd8 1-0 Thumbnail Nunn (1982) By Anefo / Croes, R.C. [CC BY-SA 3.0 nl (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons Kasparov Smiling By Copyright 2007, S.M.S.I., Inc. - Owen Williams, The Kasparov Agency. (http://www.kasparovagent.com/photo_gallery.php) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

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