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English victories against reigning World Champions
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Re: English victories against reigning World Champions
Thank you Leonard.Leonard Barden wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 4:54 amhttps://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1012179
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Re: English victories against reigning World Champions
And here is my Khalifman game. Perhaps someone ( Jack?) could kindly make it more user-friendly?Nick Burrows wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:09 pmNo, I made the Nigel Short ones up - he beat him in blitz only.
Here is Keiths Game:
and Simon's:
[Event "London WFW"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1991"]
[White "Khalifman, Alexander"]
[Black "Arkell, K.."]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2640"]
[BlackElo "2450"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[EventCategory "11"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. c4 Bb4+ 4. Nbd2 b6 5. a3 Bxd2+ 6. Bxd2 Bb7 7. Bf4 d6 8.
e3 Nbd7 9. Be2 Qe7 10. h3 Ne4 11. Bh2 f5 12. Rc1 a5 13. b3 O-O 14. O-O e5 15.
c5 bxc5 16. dxe5 dxe5 17. Bb5 c6 18. Bc4+ Kh8 19. Qe2 Nd6 20. Rfd1 Nxc4 21.
Qxc4 Ba6 22. Qh4 Qxh4 23. Nxh4 Ra7 24. Rd6 e4 25. Rcd1 Bd3 26. Nf3 a4 27. bxa4
Rf6 28. Rxf6 gxf6 29. Nd2 Rxa4 30. Bd6 Rxa3 31. Rc1 Ra2 32. Nb3 c4 33. Nd4 c5
34. Nxf5 Ra3 35. Nd4 Rb3 36. Ne6 Rb6 37. Ra1 Kg8 38. Ra8+ Kf7 39. Nd8+ Kg6 40.
Bc7 Rb1+ 41. Kh2 c3 42. f4 exf3 0-1
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Re: English victories against reigning World Champions
That is the type of loss that will have taught the young Magnus a lot. For example, that the two bishops are not everything.
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Re: English victories against reigning World Champions
I should add that I think Fischer over-estimated the advantage of the two bishops all his life.
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Re: English victories against reigning World Champions
Why do you say that?