My opponent was 18-year-old Smbat Lputian, with whom I was later n friendly terms. We had been competing at the board since the spring of 1973, when in a friendly Azerbaijan-Armenia match Smbat lost with White, but twice defeated me with Black in French Defence. But those were his first and last victories! That same summer we drew in the All-Union Youth Games in Vilnius, and then I began beating him game after game (Lputian made his next draw with me – in 2000, when he had already long been a grandmaster). Of course, on that memorable autumn day my friend and rival was dreaming of revenge.
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Smbat Lputian vs Garry Kasparov
Tbilisi (1976), rd 2
King’s Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation (E80)
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 Nc6 6.Be3 a6 7.Qd2 Rb8
8.Rb1 O-O 9.b4 e5 10.d5 Nd4 11.Nge2 c5 12.dxc6 bxc6 13.Nxd4
exd4 14.Bxd4 Re8 15.Be2 c5 16.bxc5 Nxe4 17.fxe4 Qh4+ 18.g3
Rxb1+ 19.Kf2 Rb2 20.gxh4 Rxd2 21.Bxg7 Kxg7 22.Ke3 Rc2 23.Kd3
Rxc3+ 24.Kxc3 dxc5 25.Bd3 Bb7 26.Re1 Re5 27.a4 f5 28.Rb1 Bxe4
29.Rb6 f4 30.Rxa6 f3 31.Bf1 Bf5 32.Ra7+ Kh6 33.Kd2 f2 34.Be2
Bg4 35.Bd3 Re1 36.Rf7 Bf5 37.a5 Bxd3 38.Rxf2 Rf1
0-1
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