Chess

Matchismo

Raymond Keene

Since the termination of the Moscow World Championship in February, Karpov has maintained a low profile and competed in no public events at all. I have no information on whether or not he has played private training games. Meanwhile, Kasparov has been determined to demons- trate his chessboard virility by playing well-publicised matches against Hubner and Andersson. Kasparov's score against Hubner constituted a marvellous victory, while his games looked like Alekhine and Capablanca rolled into one.

Hamburg, 28 May —4 June (sponsored by der Spiegel) Kasparov 1 1 1/2 1 1/2 1/2 41/2

Hilbner 0 0 1/2 0 1/2 1/2 11/2 The next match against Andersson starts up this week in Belgrade. Away from the board Kasparov has also been displaying great self confidence, beating his chest and uttering Tarzanic ululations in denuncia- tion of the powers which called off the earlier match, and amongst these powers he clearly numbers Karpov.

Kasparov's indictment included: 'On the night of 1 February, Campomanes, in agreement with Karpov, suggested the match be limited to a further eight games. And if nobody had won by then, the match would start again in September with the score at 0-0. I couldn't accept this decision. I then asked: why eight more games? If Mr Campomanes wants to break off the match, then he should do it at once. Kinzel [Fide's representative in Moscow] has turned this sentence upside down and made it appear as if I had personally suggested that the match should be ended. But I didn't make such a suggestion at all.

Indeed, at the commencement of the nego- tiations, I would have been prepared for a premature termination of the match if I had been treated as a partner of equal rights and acceptable conditions had been suggested. Neither of these was done. I had a quite natural wish to use the chance to emerge with honour from a match which had been so difficult, and which had brought such little success.

'Karpov's suggestion, which Kinzel brought to me, contained the following points: 1) Kasparov concedes defeat. 2) The next match begins in September at 0-0 and lasts 24 games.

3) If Kasparov wins this match with a lead of not more than three points, he gets the title of World Champion up to 1 January 1986. On 1 January 1986, Karpov becomes World Champion again and Kasparov the Challenger again, since the latter has shown no superiority in two matches.

4) If Kasparov wins the next match with a lead of four points or more, he becomes World Champion and is obliged to defend his title . . . [and so on].

`Kinzel said both players were tired. I happened to be one of those players and had to reply to him that this did not apply in my case and that, in fact, I felt signifi- cantly better than at the beginning of the match. Kinzel then said something very important. There should be no separate negotiations between Karpov and myself. Everything had t9 happen under the aegis of Fide. I then answered: I await Mr Karpov in the Hotel Sport at the chess- board and there under the aegis of Fide we can clear up all questions. For that, we need no Mr Campomanes and no Mr Kinzel,.we just need a board with 16 white pieces and 16 black ones.'

If these allegations are true, Karpov's extraordinary proposal suggests that the world champion was in a highly emotional state towards the end of the match. I have heard it suggested that football vandalism is fuelled by a low rate of goal-scoring which makes the crowd restive. In chess, on the contrary, a high rate of draws (40 out of 48 in Moscow) appears to make officials restless and impels them to inter- vene in a sporting contest in a way they have no right to.

Kasparov — /Inner: Game 2, Queen's Gambit Declined.

1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nf3 d5 4 Nc3 Be7 5 Bg5 0-0 6 Qc2 Ne4 7 exe7 Qxe7 8 e3 Nxc3 9 Qxc3 b6 10 cxdS exd5 11 b4 e6 12 Rd l Bb7 13 Bd3 Nd7 14 Rb1 Qd8 An inexplicable retreat. Why not 14 . . . a5 at once? 15 0-085 16 a3 axb4 17 axb4 g6 18 Nd2 Qe7 19 e4 Dramatically altering the nature of the pawn structure. Kasparov shows great confidence in his ability to whip up a King's side attack in exchange for the weakness of his d4 pawn. 19 . . . dxe4 20 Bxe4 Rac8 21 Rfel Qd8 22 Nc4 Nf6 23 Bf3 Nd5 24 Qd2 Ba6 25 Ne5 Bb5 26 Reel Qd6 27 h4 Rfd8 28 h5 Ne7 29 Rel Rc7 30 Bg4 Nd5 31 hxg6 hxg6 32 Rb3 15 33 Bdl Rg7 34 Rh3 Qxb4 With both players in time-trouble, Kasparov now sacrifices a Rook to launch a mating attack. 35 Qh6 Qxel+ 36 Kh2 (Diagram) 36. . . Kf8 37 Nxg6+ Kg8 38 Qh8+ 107 39 Qxd8 Black resigned.

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