This
is a page, which I added in September, 2002.
This is a continuation of the
previous page, which ended with one
of the most
interesting games I have ever
annotated.
(It is also one of my best jobs of game annotation, ever.)
(Karpov - Kasparov; {#2} World Championship Match. Game # 16.)
(Return to that page to get the link.)
This page is a continuation of that idea, bringing you the finest annotated
games
on the Internet - period. If you like these games, please be sure to contact
me.
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A
note to all of my fans and supporters:
Thanks to a VERY generous patron, who sent me a donation to cover the
cost,
I now have CHESSBASE 9.0.
This includes the MEGA package, the new, really
big database, the new openings book, the correspondence database, The {new}
5-disc set of the NALIMOV ENDGAME TABLES, etc.
Hopefully, this can only help
make the quality of my analysis much better!!!
I
am going to start this page with a few of the games from the very well known
match ...
between two super-stars. Chess players who carried, "The Honor of their
countries
upon their shoulders." (As was written in the newspapers of that
time.)
I
am referring to the series of games played between A. MacDonnell - the
great
English and the great French player, L.C. de LaBourdonnais.
This
is the FIRST (recorded) great
game of chess ... maybe ever!!
( GM
Ruben Fine says that this is the very
FIRST IMMORTAL
game of chess!!! )
***
This is the game:
Louis Charles de LaBourdonnais - Alexander
MacDonnell;
Match, FRANCE vs. ENGLAND
Third Match, Game number Fifty. (#
50.)
This is absolutely one of the best games of the the 19th century!!
Black's (mostly positional) sacrifice befuddled players of that time
...
(Staunton later called Black's
combination, "completely unsound."
But he was dead wrong! As were
many of the folks who commented on this game.)
... but my deep (computer-assisted) analysis reveals this
game
to be 100% sound! A super-brilliancy ... of the first magnitude!!
***
One of my all-time favorite "fun" books is:
"The Complete Chess Addict,"
by Mike Fox and Richard
James.
This is game #1 in their selection of:
"The Sixty Greatest Games of Chess Ever
Played."
***
Maybe A. MacDonnell's greatest game!!
( I christen this game, "The 1st Great Jewel of
England." )
Click HERE
to go there now!!!
This
is the SECOND great chess
game ... maybe ever!!
This is the game:
Alexander MacDonnell - Louis Charles de
LaBourdonnais;
Match, France vs. England
Fourth Match, Game number Sixteen. (# 16.)
This is absolutely one of the best games of the whole of the 19th century.
Black gets a big pawn roller and an attack. The final position of this
game is
as beautiful and as creative as any problem I have ever
seen!
One of the true chess masterpieces.
***
I call this game,
"The LaBourdonnais ... {Super} IMMORTAL GAME!!!"
I also refer to this game as: "The
ULTIMATE Pawn-Roller."
***
Click
HERE to go there now!!!
Click HERE
to see one of the nicest attacks by anyone,
anytime!
(A great example of the very fine attacking skill of L.C. de LaBourdonnais.)
Click
HERE
to see the well-annotated game:
L.
Paulsen - Paul Morphy;
1st American Chess Congress (4-6)
New York, 11/1857.
***
This
is one of Paul Morphy's greatest games,
and deserves to be better known than it is.
Click HERE
to see the game,
GM Larry Evans - GM Arthur Bisguier;
U.S. Championships, New York, N.Y. (U.S.A.) 1959.
***
This is a game that took MONTHS
to
analyze ...
and almost 2 weeks of work to ready for publication on the Internet.
Check it out!!! One of the prettiest endings to a game as has ever been
seen!
Click
HERE to see the game:
GM Emmanuel Lasker
- NM J.H. Bauer;
International Chess Tournament, Amsterdam,
(NED); 1889.
***
I
took my time with this game and annotated it VERY carefully.
I also consulted ALL the pertinent references for this great game.
***
A
fresh look at one of the great games of chess.
Click HERE
to see the excellent game:
GM Eduard Gufeld - GM
Lubosh Kavalek;
World Student Olympiad
Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia,
1962.
GM
Andrew Soltis considers the the SEVENTH (# 7)
best game ...
of the whole if the 20th Century!!!
It
certainly is a great game, one of the finest ever played.
***
My analysis is a very fresh look at this wonderful encounter.
(I have found MANY errors in both Nunn's, Emms's, and Soltis's
analysis of this great and wonderful game!)
Click HERE
to see the very famous game:
GM Richard Reti - GM
Efwim Bogolyubov;
International Chess Tournament;
New York City, NY
(USA) 1924.
***
This
is not a deeply annotated game, but it is a great game.
One of the most beautiful and elegant GM games ever played.
It also won the FIRST BRILLIANCY PRIZE at this event.
Click
HERE
to see the fabulous game:
GM
Garry Kasparov - GM Anatoly
Karpov;
FIDE World Championship Match.
(London/Leningrad, 1986.)
***
This
is a medium (depth) annotated game.
It is one of the great all-time WCS series games. It is also a fantastic Ruy
Lopez.
While maybe not a perfect game, it is fantastically complicated
game.
A battle royale, where Garry sacrifices a whole hatful of pieces.
MANY of the GM's who were watching this game thought Karpov
was winning until the very end. A great game to study to improve your
tactics. It is also fascinating to analyze this game with a computer.
Click
HERE
to see the following great game:
GM
R.J. ("Bobby") Fischer
(2685)
- GM Oscar
Panno (2496)
[A04]
Buenos Aires, ARG
(Round # 8),
1970
***
A
nicely annotated game - with one diagram -
that is a favorite of many Masters.
(It is also one of my favorite Fischer games.)
Click
HERE
to see the game:
GM
Vladimir Kramnik (2807) - Deep
Fritz 7.0 (est. 2695)
[E15] Game # 6
"Man
versus Machine" Match
Manama, Bahrain;
2002.
***
Did
GM Kramnik have to sacrifice a piece? Did Kramnik miss a win here?
Was the final position drawn? Did the Fritz team cheat?
***
ALL
of these questions are answered at this web
site!!
Click
HERE
to see the game:
GM
Mikhail Botvinnik (2700) - GM Vassily Smyslov
(2675)
[E68]
(FIDE) World
Championship Match, (Game # 14)
Moscow, U.S.S.R. (RUS)
1954.
***
GM
Andrew Soltis considers this the FINEST game (of its
type)
ever played at the World Championship Series.
GM
Vassily Smyslov considers it one of his very BEST
games.
Click
here to see the game:
GM
David Bronstein (2575) - GM
Ljubo Ljubojevic (2680)
[B02]
Petropolis (FIDE) Interzonal
Brazil, South America;
1973.
This
could be one of the most complicated games EVER played!!!
Be
sure to check it out.
Click here
to see the game:
GM
Lev Polugaeyevsky - IM Rashid
Nezmetdinov;
[A53]
RSFSR Championships.
Sochi, U.S.S.R.
(Russia);
1958.
This
is a game many consider to be one of the greatest
of all time. It is also one of the most amazing and daring
ingenious Queen sacrifices ever played.
You
MUST check this one out!!
Click
HERE
to see the great
game:
Vladimir
Alortsev (2495) - GM
Issac Boleslavsky (2680)
[A53]
U.S.S.R./ Soviet Championships (Finals)
Moscow, RUS;
1950.
This
is truly a fantastic game of chess, many authors have rated it as one of the
greatest games of chess of all time. (Jimmy Adams says it is easily one of the
best games of the whole decade of the 1950's.) GM Andy Soltis ranks it in
the "Top 50" of the entire 20th Century. GM J. Nunn
calls it: ... "a celebrated brilliancy, and one of Boleslavsky's best
games." I could go on and on, but by now you should have gotten the
idea. Check it out!
Click
HERE to see the great
game:
GM
Peter Leko - GM Teaymour
Radjabov;
[C12]
XX Super-GM Tournament
Linares, ESP;
2003.
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This
is a fantastic game, and there are actually THREE
pages devoted to this game!!
(A text-score page, with several beautiful diagrams, a js-replay page, AND
a page
with the LCC commentator; IM Malcolm Pein's comments and analysis.)
This
is probably the encounter that should have been awarded the prize for best game
of the tournament. (Instead they gave it to the severely flawed
Kasparov-Radjabov encounter.)
Click HERE to see the game:
GM
Garry Kasparov (2750) - GM Anatoly Karpov
(2730)
[D55]
FIDE World Championship, (Return Match)
London, ENG; ---> Leningrad, RUS; (Game
#22); 1986.
A
game of great brilliancy. It was game of the year, best game for that issue of
the Informant, and picked as the best game of the year by the readers of the
Russian magazine, "64." It was also praised by great players like
Botvinnik and Smyslov shortly after it was played.
My
analysis - which took MONTHS
to complete - indicates it is actually BETTER
than previously thought!! Truly a game of great brilliancy ... you MUST check
this one out!
Click HERE
to see the deeply annotated game:
Rashid
Nezhmetdinov (2650) - Oleg Chernikov (2525)
[B35]
Russian Federated Team Championship
Rostov-on-Don, RUS;
1962.
This
is one of the most amazing and scintillating sacrifices ever played.
This
game took MANY months of dedicated, hard work to analyze, and almost three weeks
of effort to finish and polish the HTML code. There is both a text-based page
AND a js-replay format page. This is a GREAT game to study to help you learn
tactics. It will blow you away!! That's a promise!
Click HERE
to see the nearly unbelievable game of:
GM
Garry Kasparov (2675)
- GM Lajos Portisch (2630)
[E12]
(Super) GM Tournament
Niksic, YUG;
1983.
---> This
game must be one of the finest Garry has ever played, many titled players have
personally told me it is one of the most brilliant and complicated games ever
played. A really fine game.
This is certainly one
of the best games a young Garry ever played. The sacrifice that Garry played is
certainly one of the most astounding of the whole of the Twentieth
Century. (Posted: Thursday; May 08, 2003.)
Click
to see the awesome game of:
IM Stefano
Tatai (2460) - GM
Anatoly Karpov (2705)
[A34]
All-Master Tournament
Las Palmas, (ESP);
1977.
--->
This could be one of Anatoly Karpov's very best games. An attacking game that would do credit to
any player!
Many distinguished judges and players
picked this as THE game of 1977.
I also have done a fair job of
annotating this game for you. Additionally, I have given
you all of the references where you can find good analysis of this great
game.
(Posted: Wednesday; May 14th, 2003.)
Click HERE to see
the super-fantastic game of:
GM
A. Karpov - GM V. Topalov
Super-GM Tournament
Linares, Spain; 1994.
-----> A great game.
Many annotators have taken a whack at this game, and most have gotten it
wrong.
This
must be one of Karpov's greatest games. (It really is the most brilliant game of
that tournament. It didn't really win the brilliancy prize ... but that is
another story.) And it came during one of the greatest single tournament
performances ever!! (PERIOD ... and bar none!!!) One of the greatest sacrificial
games ... Karpov sacks a Rook ... THREE TIMES!!!
YOU
SIMPLY MUST CHECK THIS GAME OUT. THIS IS MAYBE KARPOV'S BEST GAME. A GAME FOR
THE AGES. YOU ARE NOT
A TRUE KARPOV FAN IF YOU DO NOT TAKE A LOOK AT THIS
GAME! UNBELIEVABLE TACTICS CROWN A MODEL GAME/POSITIONAL CRUSH.
This
is the LAST game I will be posting on this page!
(This entry posted: Sunday; May 18th, 2003.)
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