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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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37. ... Bf5-e4
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Grandmaster Bisguier's Commentary

Note first that 38. Nxe4? loses a piece, e.g., 38. ... dxe4 39. Rxc6 exf3+ (zwischenzug - an in-between move) and White can resign.

Also, now the Nf3 can't swing over to d4 (because the g2-pawn would be lost). Maybe Karpov can draw two pawns down, but can Gata??

More importantly, Karpov is taking care to calmly improve his position - that pawn isn't going anywhere!