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Garry Kasparov
1963.04.13

Russia

Kasparov (2812) vs. Topalov (2700)

61st Hoogovens Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 1999

Category XVIII (ELO 2678)
January 20, 1999  –  Round 4

Veselin Topalov
1975.03.15

Bulgaria


"And as all chess commentators agreed, the game that I played against Veselin Topalov that day in a small Dutch village of Wijk aan Zee was probably the best game ever played in the history of chess".
 
 

    

See how Kasparov annotated this game!
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[Event "Hoogovens (cat. 18)"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "1999.01.20"]
[Round "04"]
[White "Kasparov, Garry (RUS)"]
[Black "Topalov, Veselin (BUL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2812"]
[BlackElo "2700"]
[[Opening "Pirc Defence"]
[ECO "B07"]
[PlyCount "87"]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 Bg7 5.Qd2 c6 6.f3 b5 7.Nge2 Nbd7 8.Bh6 Bxh6 9.Qxh6 Bb7 10.a3 e5 11.0-0-0 Qe7 12.Kb1 a6 13.Nc1 0-0-0 14.Nb3 exd4! 15.Rxd4 c5 16.Rd1 Nb6! 17.g3 Kb8 18.Na5 Ba8 19.Bh3 d5 20.Qf4+ Ka7 21.Rhe1 d4 22.Nd5 Nbxd5 23.exd5 Qd6 24.Rxd4!! cxd4?! 25.Re7+! Kb6 26.Qxd4+ Kxa5 27.b4+ Ka4 28.Qc3 Qxd5 29.Ra7 Bb7 30.Rxb7 Qc4 31.Qxf6 Kxa3 32.Qxa6+ Kxb4 33.c3+! Kxc3 34.Qa1+ Kd2 35.Qb2+ Kd1 36.Bf1! Rd2 37.Rd7! Rxd7! 38.Bxc4 bxc4 39.Qxh8 Rd3 40.Qa8 c3 41.Qa4+ Ke1 42.f4 f5 43.Kc1 Rd2 44.Qa7 1-0

Video Commentary by Kasparov!  Download  5.552 kB

 

Editor's Note

I have compiled over 100 (!) different annotations of the famous game between Kasparov and Topalov into this kas-top.zip file.  18 Aug 2007

The annotations includes comments by several GM's, as Kasparov,  Seirawan, Short, Kavalek, Ftacnik, Stohl, Byrne, Speelman,  Winants and many others + some chess engines!

 RYBKA 2.3.1  20 min/move  P-IV 2.4 GHz  512 MB hash  Total analysis time: (87-18)x20:60 = 23 hours

The comments are edited for easy use and conformity with the ChessBase software.

Fritz 5FREEWARE 4,20 MB
 ChessBase Light 2007 40,45 MB – 58,95 MB and CB9 update

My foremost ambition was to make these annotations easy to follow for the reader.
 

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