Karpov / Moscow – Short / London [C57]
Ice Chess London, 11.01.20071.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5 5.Bxf7+ Ke7 6.Bd5 d6 7.0-0 Bg4 8.Qe1 Nxd5 9.exd5 Nd4 10.c3 Ne2+ 11.Kh1 h6 12.Ne4 Bb6 13.f3 Nxc1 14.fxg4 Nd3 15.Qg3 Nf4 16.d4 g5 17.Nbd2 Qg8 18.dxe5 dxe5 19.c4 Bd4 20.Qb3 Qg6 21.Qxb7 Qb6 22.d6+ Kd7 23.Qxc7+ Qxc7 24.dxc7 Kxc7 25.Rab1 Rhf8 26.Nf3 Rad8 27.b4 Ne2 28.c5 Rf4 29.Nd6 Rxg4 30.Nxd4 exd4 31.Rf7+ Kc6 32.Rxa7 d3 33.Ra3 Rd4 34.b5+ Kd5 35.Rd1 d2 36.Nf5 Kxc5 37.Nxd4 ½-½ In this position, White offered a mercy draw and it was accepted.
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Karpov can still kick the bootie out of Short. How sad!
Looks like an amateur game especially as black allows 5. Bf7+ with no proper defense. I don’t think Short played it seriously or was behind the moves. Which ice color is the white pieces anyway?
SK
How nice of Karpov to offer a draw! Bet he wouldn’t have done that in a tournament. I finished the game versus GNU Chess 5.07 on a Pentium M 2GHz machine. GNU spent about 10 minutes thinking, I spent about 4.
On a fresh board, GNU chess beats be at much easier settings!
37. Nxd4 Rxd4 38. Re3 Nf4 39. Rc3+ Kxb5 40. Rc2 Ne6 41. Rdxd2 Rf4 42. Rf2 Rb4 43. Kg1 Rb1+ 44. Rf1 Rxf1+ 45. Kxf1 Nd4 46. Rb2+ Kc4 47. a4 Nc6 48. Kf2 Kd4 49. Kf3 Ne5+ 50. Kg3 Nc4 51. Rb1 Ke4 52. Kg4 Ke3 53. Kh5 g4 54. Kxg4 Kf2 55. g3 Ke3 56. Ra1 Na5 57. h4 Ke2 58. Kh5 Kf3 59. g4 Kg3 60. Ra3+ Kf4 61. Rc3 Nb7 62. Rc6 Ke4 63. Kxh6 Na5 64. Rc1 Nb3 65. Rb1 Nc5 66. a5 Na6 67. g5 Nc7 68. g6 Nd5 69. g7 Nf6 70. a6 Kd3 71. a7 Kc2 72. Rf1 Ng4+ 73. Kg5 Nh6 74. Kxh6 Kc3 75. g8=Q Kd4 76. Rd1+ Kc3 77. Qc8+ Kb3 78. Rb1+ Ka2 79. Qb7 Ka3 80. Ra1# 1-0
And here is a slightly quicker version where I played more aggressively:
45. Kxf1 Nd4 46. Rb2+ Kc4 47. a4 Nc6 48. Kf2 Kd4 49. Kg3 Kc5 50. Kg4 Kd4 51. Kh5 Ke4 52. Kxh6 g4 53. Kg5 g3 54. hxg3 Kd3 55. g4 Kc3 56. Rf2 Kd4 57. Kf5 Kd3 58. g5 Ke3 59. Rf4 Ne7+ 60. Kg4 Kd2 61. a5 Kc3 62. a6 Nc6 63. g6 Ne5+ 64. Kf5 Nc6 65. g7 Ne7+ 66. Ke6 Ng8 67. Rf8 Nh6 68. Rh8 Ng4 69. g8=Q Ne3 70. Rh3 Kc2 71. Rxe3 Kc1 72. Qd8 Kc2 73. Qd3+ Kc1 74. Qc3+ Kb1 75. Re1+ Ka2 76. Ra1#
I’ll try a stronger chess engine (e.g. Crafty) later.
“I read that the game was mostly played by the two eight-year olds.”
Now that explains a lot!
Karpov is get used to cold winter conditions better than Short.
That’s natural becouse he is russian.
That’s why he could kick the bootie out of Short in this game 🙂
Short mistreated the Traxler – that’s all … ^^ if YOU try to refute it over the board, YOU might end in a “little mess” ^^ maybe…?
but no doubt about: a person who ranks the “two knight’s defense” amongst the “simply losing a pawn” openings, would always play the Traxler in such a way!
so, the question arises: why did he do it?
for the fun or for the prove?!
^^
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It’s a team event.
Moscow: Anatoly Karpov, the former world champion; Konstantin Savenkov, the Russian under-seven champion; and a gymnast and DJ of unknown chess strength.
London: Nigel Short; Darius Parvizi-Wayne, a chess prodigy; Peter Ackroyd , author of biographies of T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas More, William Blake and William Shakespeare; and Steven Moss, columnist and chess champion of the Guardian.
At ChessBase, they reported that “White had a winning position, but Black (London) was winning on time. So accepting the draw offer from Moscow was an acceptable decision for both sides.”
Enjoy!
these two couldnt have been playing this game. white could have had an easy fork on move 5 with Nf7. this was a mercy game from the start or two five year olds playing.
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