In Tal’s Style At Tal Memorial! A Powerful Attack By Garry Kasparov

April 12, 2019 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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At Mikhail Tal’s memorial legendary chess player Garry Kasparov plays a game in Tal’s style by organizing an attack in Sicilian defense. The bishop sacrifice on f6 decides the outcome of the game and soon Kasparov’s opponent resigns!
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Garry Kasparov (2805) vs Edvins Kengis (2575)
Tal Memorial (1995), Riga LAT, rd 10, Apr-22
Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Bastrikov Variation (B47)
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.O-O
Nf6 8.Kh1 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Bc5 10.Qd3 h5 11.Bg5 b5 12.f4 Bb7 13.e5
Nd5 14.Nxd5 Bxd5 15.a4 Qc6 16.Bf3 Bxf3 17.Rxf3 bxa4 18.f5 Rb8
19.Raf1 O-O 20.Bf6 Qb5 21.Rg3 g6 22.Qd1 exf5 23.Rxf5 Rb6
24.Qxh5
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