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FIDE World Championship - Game 11





White: Anatoly Karpov



Black: Gata Kamsky







Played 26 June 96 in Elista, Kalmykia

Annotation by GM Arthur Bisguier, assisted by Brian Bugbee
Special Post-Game Analysis by GM Walter Browne
assisted by IM John Grefe
(GM Schwartzman is playing in the Interplay US Junior Invitational)

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Special Thanks to GM Bachar Kouatly and Christophe Bouton of FIDE.
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2. ... c7-c6
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Grandmaster Bisguier's Commentary

This inaugurates the Slav Defence, whereby Black defends his pawn. Sometimes this enables him to develop his Queen's Bishop (often the problem child in Double Queen's Pawn games.