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    Karpov vs Timman Again

    Oct 6, 2016

    The fourth international chess tournament Basamro will take place in Murmansk 6-9 October 2016. Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman will play a friendly match as part of the festival. The games will take place in Chimney hall of hotel Park Inn Murmansk.

    The match will consist of 4 classical games with time control 2h for the first 40 moves and 30 min addition for the rest of the game. So far Karpov and Timman have played 99 games, the 100th encounter between the two will be in the Basamro festival in Murmansk.

    http://www.chessdom.com/karpov-vs-timman-live/
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    Timman’s Titans – My World Chess Champions, a 330-page book by Jan Timman, has just been published.

    It has sections on the World Champions from Max Euwe to Garry Kasparov.

    Here, he speaks of his first meeting with Karpov:

    In December 1967, when I had just turned 16, I played him for the first time in Groningen. Karpov, who was six months older than me, had travelled to the Netherlands alone. In those days, such a thing was highly unusual. The young sport hero, who would be holding the Soviet colours high was always accompanied by an experienced attendant. Decades later Karpov still didn’t know why he had been sent out on his own. He thought that the Sports committee might just have wanted to save money. From the airport, Karpov took the train to Groningen. He probably would have made it to Hotel Terminus Noord anyway, but chance had it that he met Berry Withhuis, the press officer of the tournament, on the train in Amersfoort. After than, nothing could go wrong.

    In the Final group in Groningen, I started with 3 out of 3. Karpov had half a point less. The 4th round was crucial: he defeated me with white. Afterwards he said in an interview that he had been nervous before the game. Karpov won the tournament convincingly. However, I remember that at the time the experts thought that Mikhail Steinberg, who had won the even in the previous year was stronger. Steinberg, who was one year younger, had achieved a higher score, and he had played very sharply in every game. Karpov’s play was mainly characterized by soundness. People didn’t realize that it was precisely this characteristic that signified great promise for the future. Probably the chess authorities in the Soviet Union didn’t realize this either at the time. Steinberg was the one who was assigned the strong grandmaster Anatoly Lutikov as his attendant, which was a clear sign that they wanted to invest in him. There was never much competition between Karpov and Steinberg later on. Their mutual score was 5-1 for Karpov, with 2 draws. Steinberg’s career ended abruptly when he contracted leukemia and he died at 24.

    A nice long essay on Bobby Fischer in that book too.

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    Re: Karpov vs Timman Again

    Karpov vs Timman Again

    October 9, 2016

    For the record, the four games:

    4th Basamro Match 2016
    Murmansk, Russia
    Game 1, Oct. 6, 2016
    Karpov, Anatoly – Timman, Jan
    E62 King’s Indian, Fianchetto, Larsen System

    1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 O-O 5.Bg2 d6 6.O-O c6 7.Nc3 Bf5 8.Ne1 Be6 9.d5 cxd5 10.cxd5 Bd7 11.h3 Na6 12.Nd3 Qc8 13.Kh2 Nc5 14.Be3 Nxd3 15.Qxd3 Bf5 16.Qb5 h5 17.Bd4 a6 18.Qb4 b5 19.Rfc1 Qb8 20.e4 Bd7 21.Nd1 h4 22.gxh4 e5 23.dxe6 Bxe6 24.Kg1 Qd8 25.Be3 Qd7 26.Kh2 d5 27.e5 Nh5 28.f4 Rad8 29.Nf2 a5 30.Qe1 d4 31.Bd2 Bd5 32.Rc5 Bxg2 33.Kxg2 Rfe8 34.Rac1 Bf8 35.Rc7 Qd5+ 36.Qe4 Qxa2 37.Nd3 Nf6 38.Qf3 Nd5 39.Rb7 Ne3+ 40.Kh2 Qb3 41.Qe2 Rc8 42.Rbc7 Rxc7 43.Rxc7 a4 44.h5 Qe6 45.hxg6 fxg6 46.Qf3 Rc8 47.Rxc8 Qxc8 48.Bxe3 dxe3 49.Qd5+ Kh7 50.Qxb5 Qc2+ 51.Kg3 e2 52.Ne1 Qd2 53.Kf2 Qxf4+ 1/2-1/2

    Game 2, Oct. 7, 2016
    Timman, Jan – Karpov, Anatoly
    A11 English, Caro-Kann Defence

    1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 c6 4.c4 Bf5 5.Qb3 Qb6 6.d3 Qxb3 7.axb3 Na6 8.Be3 Bd7 9.Ne5 e6 10.O-O Bd6 11.f4 Ke7 12.Nd2 Rhc8 13.Nxd7 Kxd7 14.Nf3 Ke7 15.Rfc1 Nd7 16.f5 e5 17.cxd5 cxd5 18.Ne1 Rxc1 19.Rxc1 Nc7 20.Nc2 h6 21.Bf2 Nf6 22.Ne3 Kd7 23.g4 g5 24.fxg6 fxg6 25.Bh4 g5 26.Bg3 Re8 27.Nf5 Nb5 28.e3 e4 29.dxe4 Bxg3 30.Nxg3 Nd6 31.Rf1 Nfxe4 32.Bxe4 Nxe4 33.Nf5 Rh8 34.Rd1 Ke6 35.Nd4+ Kd6 36.Rc1 a6 37.b4 h5 38.gxh5 Rxh5 39.Kg2 Rh7 40.b5 axb5 41.Nxb5+ Ke5 42.Rf1 Nd2 43.Rf8 Nc4 44.Re8+ Kf6 45.b3 Nd2 46.Rd8 Nxb3 47.Rxd5 Re7 48.Nd4 Rxe3 49.Nf3 g4 50.Ng1 Re5 51.Rd6+ Kf5 52.Rb6 Nc5 53.Rb4 Re4 54.Rb5 Rc4 55.h3 gxh3+ 56.Nxh3 Ke6 57.Nf2 Kd7 58.Kf3 Kc6 59.Rb2 b5 60.Ke2 b4 61.Nd1 Kb5 62.Rd2 Re4+ 63.Kf3 Rh4 64.Rd8 b3 65.Ke3 Kc4 66.Rc8 Rh2 67.Rc6 Kb4 68.Rc8 Na4 69.Rb8+ Ka3 70.Ra8 Kb4 71.Rb8+ Kc4 72.Rc8+ Nc5 73.Rc6 Rc2 74.Rc8 Ra2 75.Rc6 Rg2 76.Rc8 Rh2 1/2-1/2

    Game 3, Oct. 8, 2016
    Karpov, Anatoly – Timman, Jan
    E62 King’s Indian, Fianchetto, Larsen System

    1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 O-O 5.Bg2 d6 6.O-O c6 7.Nc3 Bf5 8.Ne1 Be6 9.d5 cxd5 10.cxd5 Bd7 11.Qb3 Na6 12.Nd3 Qb6 13.Qxb6 axb6 14.Bg5 Nc5 15.Nb4 h6 16.Bd2 Rfc8 17.Rfc1 Bf5 18.f3 g5 19.Nd1 Nfd7 20.Bc3 Ne5 21.b3 Bg6 22.f4 gxf4 23.gxf4 Ng4 24.Bxg7 Kxg7 25.h3 Nf6 26.Ne3 Kh7 27.Kh2 Be4 28.Ng4 Nfd7 29.Nf2 Bxg2 30.Kxg2 f5 31.Nc2 Nxb3 32.axb3 Rxa1 33.Rxa1 Rxc2 34.Ra7 Nf6 35.Rxb7 Nxd5 36.Kf1 Rc1+ 37.Kg2 Nxf4+ 38.Kh2 Nd5 39.e4 fxe4 40.Nxe4 Kg6 0-1

    Game 4, Oct. 9, 2016
    Timman, Jan – Karpov, Anatoly
    A11 Reti, King’s Indian Attack

    1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Bg4 5.Ne5 Be6 6.cxd5 Bxd5 7.Nf3 c5 8.Nc3 Bc6 9.O-O e6 10.d4 Nbd7 11.Be3 cxd4 12.Bxd4 Be7 13.Ne5 Bxg2 14.Kxg2 Nxe5 15.Bxe5 Qa5 16.Bxf6 Bxf6 17.Ne4 O-O 18.Nxf6+ gxf6 19.Qd4 1/2-1/2

    There was also a 5-round League Match at the same time. It was won by Leningrad Region.

    http://www.basamrochesstournament.com

    I like this little spiel at the announcement especially the diplomatic “world champion, whoever it might be”.

    This year, the dates at which the tournament takes place matches the one hundred year anniversary of the city of Murmansk, which will be celebrated by its citizens at the beginning of the month.

    As per tradition, the junior teams from both Murmansk and Rotterdam will participate in the tournament. However, this year, the competition will also be shared by:

    Regional Chess Sport federation of the Leningrad Region
    The Chess Federation of Novorossiysk
    Sussex Junior Chess of the UK
    International Chess Team of Paris

    Another tradition of the tournament became the invitation of chess legends: once again the young teams will be granted the honour of the presence of the 12th world champion Anatoly Karpov and the strongest Dutch chess player of the 70s and the 80s, Jan Timman.

    An invitation was sent to the current world champion Magnus Carlsen, however he politely declined due to his preparation to defending his title against the Russian Sergei Karyakin. Hopefully, in the next, fifth, tournament the world champion will be present as well, whoever it might be.

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