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FIDE World Championship - Game 14





White: Gata Kamsky



Black: Anatoly Karpov







Played 2 July 96 in Elista, Kalmykia

Annotation by GM Arthur Bisguier
assisted by NM Eric Johnson and Brian Bugbee
Special Post-Game Analysis by GM Walter Browne
and IM John Grefe

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in cooperation with FIDE
Special Thanks to GM Bachar Kouatly and Christophe Bouton of FIDE.
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15. Bc2-b3
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Grandmaster Bisguier's Commentary

This appears to be Gata's "improvement" over the Rogers-Ivanchuk.

White repositions his bishop to a new diagonal, and pressures the d5-square. On a deeper level, White restrains Black from playing his freeing move e6-e5 because of the pressure on f7 from the combination of the Bb3 and Ng5.

Black has a major problem here: what to do with his Bc8? If he plays b7-b6 to play Bb7, he runs the risk of a possible sacrifice on the weakened e6 or f7-squares. (:15)