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FIDE World Championship - Game 4




White: Gata Kamsky


Black: Anatoly Karpov





Played 12 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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23. Bd3xf5
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Grandmaster Bisguier's Commentary

White plays this move to reduce the pressure against d4 and to slightly degrade Black's pawn structure. Of course White avoids the trap 23. g4? g5 when his queen has no escape square.