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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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61. ... Be6xg4
Full Game Score ... Previous Move
Grandmaster Bisguier's Commentary

The position is a standard book win - White resigns.

Final Thoughts:

A crushing defeat for the challenger - in a good position, he erred in time pressure (33. Ng1? did him in).

Karpov is now +4. The only thing standing between him and the title is ... his past history. The situation is much different, however, than during the 1984 match with Kasparov - there, the winner needed 6 wins, draws not counting. Back then, the challenger (Kasparov) could prolong the match by drawing.

Of course, in 1996, Anatoly now also has the 6 wins (6:2 in decisive games, 9:5 overall).