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Kasparov’s Attacking Power
Garry Kasparov’s games give us lot of material to study. Specifically, his brilliant games, full of spectacular combinations, incredible sacrifices and flashy variations.
Many games from the former World Champion are worth to analyze. Consider to be the greatest chess player of all time, the best player of the world for 20 years, his long career are full of great games, from positional masterpieces to tactical jewels.
This time, GM Damián Lemos will focus in his attacking abilities, analyzing two great complete games. Both games will show you how to create an attack right from the opening. Kasparov is known as the best attacking player in the chess history, so no better player to learn from!
As with every tactical monster, it’s very difficult to select only two examples. But GM Lemos makes a great choice. And his great commentaries will let you feel the real beauty of the games (and, even, learn how to create them!).
Kasparov – Vaganian
Kasparov uses the same attacking pattern that GM Simon Williams analyses in detail in his course Chess Improvement Secrets for the Busy Player: Qc2-h3-Ng5.
With this attacking idea, Vaganian was forced to play …g6, which terribly weakens the kingside. White was delight to open lines with h4-h5, but Vaganian was not going to lose without a fight.
He created a strong counter attack on the queenside, even at the cost of a total disaster in his own castle. The critical position was reached in the move 22, as the following position shows: Kasparov’s Attacking Power – Vaganian
In this position, it’s White to play. Can you discover the fantastic combination that Kasparov had in mind?
Black is threatening the Qc2, and she can’t move and still defend the Ne4 (which will be captured with check!). So Kasparov seems to be lost!
But Black’s king is not safe either. The question is, who will be faster?
White has only one move to win (the other ones even loses). 22.Be5+ is not hard to discover. But, how to continue after 22…f6?
Kasparov “simply” sacrifices his queen! 23.Nxf6! Nxc2 24.Nd5+ Bf6 25.Nxf6 and the discovered check is unstoppable. 25…Qg7 26.Ng4 is not a good answer.
Vaganian played 23…Bxf6, but after 24.Bxf6+ Black has to resign, as after 24…Rxf6 25.axb4 White has a winning material advantage (and the attack). The key of the combination is that 25…Rxc2 is answered with 26.Rd8+ Kg7 27.h8Q+ and mate in a few moves.
Who would say in the position of the diagram that Black has problems with his back rank!
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Kavalek – Kasparov
Kasparov made the King’s Indian Defense one of his main weapons against 1.d4, and many chess players around the world play it because of him. If you are one of them (or if you face it when you play 1.d4 yourself), you must see this complete game.
In this encounter, Kasparov show his incredible understanding of this highly tactical defense. Many of the sacrifices he made are nowadays typical ideas!
What would you play in the next position? Kasparov’s Attacking Power – Kavalek
Kasparov’s knight on f4 doesn’t have a good square to go. But he doesn’t care, he only saw that exposed white’s king! To take advantage of this, you must open the center!
Kasparov sacrifice his knight with the surprising 13…Nb4!, with idea of answering 14.gxf4 with 14…fxe4! 15.Nxe4 exf4 16.Bd2 Nd3+ 17.Ke2 Nc5, recovering the piece with a crushing attack. Fantastic!
In the game, Kavalek decided to refuse the knight, but the result wasn’t better.
If you want to know how the game proceed, you need to see the full video of GM Damian Lemos.
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