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FIDE World Championship - Game 3




White: Anatoly Karpov


Black: Gata Kamsky





Played 10 June 96 in Elista, Kalmykia

Annotation by GM Arthur Bisguier, assisted by SM Ron Burnett

Special Post-Game Analysis by GM Gabriel Schwartzmann

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7. ... c7-c6
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Grandmaster Bisguier's Commentary

Black blunts the dangerous diagonal and prepares for ... d5 which challenge the c4-pawn. And in the event of cxd5 Black can recapture with ... cxd5 thereby avoiding the specter of a backward c-pawn.