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Free endgame lessons! (was: Kasparov's hatred of Karpov) - 2006/02/06 00:09
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Go to chesslab.com & do a search for all the games from the first
Karpov/Kasparov match. The first "page" of results should have Karpov as White in every single game.
Play over these wins & take note of the way which Anatoly treated Garry
"like a child" in the endgame, after figuratively having dominated the middlegame (& more than once, obscurely snatching a pawn & getting away with it)!
Sometimes these endings were fiarly simple looking theoretical draws, yet
Karpov's subvtlety, just like Capablanca's, overwhelmed the hapless opponent & belligerently led, again and again, to him "winning by a nose." In one of these endgames, I was quite horribly shocked that one could even *consider* trying to win, yet Karpov made it look like childsplay.
In later matches, Garry endgame play ultimately improved markedly, and he eventually reached the point where he no longer sternly needed to fear Karpov in *any* phase of the game. Yet such "free lessons" as these, had to be painful as well as embarasing, for a man rated over 2700, and used to losing only when he blundered badly..
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