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Garry Kasparov
1963.04.13

Russia

The Game of the Century

Kasparov (2812) vs. Topalov (2700)

61st Hoogovens Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 1999

Category XVIII  (Elo 2678)
January 20, 1999  —  Round 4

 Veselin Topalov
1975.03.15

Bulgaria

“And as all chess commentators agreed, the game that I played against Veselin Topalov that day in a small Dutch village of  Wijk aan Zee was probably the best game ever played in the history of chess”.







See how Kasparov annotated this game!
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[Event "Hoogovens A Tournament (cat. 18)"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "1999.01.20"]
[Round "04"]
[White "Kasparov, Garry (RUS)"]
[Black "Topalov, Veselin (BUL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2812"]
[BlackElo "2700"]
[Opening "Pirc Defence"]
[Variation "Ufimtsev-Pytel"]
[ECO "B07"]
[PlyCount "87"]
 
1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 Bg7 5.Qd2 c6
6.f3 b5 7.Nge2 Nbd7 8.Bh6 Bxh6 9.Qxh6 Bb7
10.a3 e5 11.0-0-0 Qe7 12.Kb1 a6 13.Nc1 0-0-0
14.Nb3 exd4! 15.Rxd4 c5 16.Rd1 Nb6! 17.g3 Kb8
18.Na5 Ba8 19.Bh3 d5 20.Qf4+ Ka7 21.Rhe1 d4
22.Nd5 Nbxd5 23.exd5 Qd6 24.Rxd4!! cxd4?!
25.Re7+! Kb6 26.Qxd4+ Kxa5 27.b4+ Ka4 28.Qc3
Qxd5 29.Ra7 Bb7 30.Rxb7 Qc4 31.Qxf6 Kxa3?
32.Qxa6+ Kxb4 33.c3+! Kxc3 34.Qa1+ Kd2
35.Qb2+ Kd1 36.Bf1! Rd2 37.Rd7! Rxd7! 38.Bxc4
bxc4 39.Qxh8 Rd3 40.Qa8 c3 41.Qa4+ Ke1 42.f4 f5
43.Kc1 Rd2 44.Qa7
1-0 Portable Game Notation




Editor’s Note

TaL has collected about 150 different annotations
from Internet of the famous game between
Kasparov and Topalov into this kas-top.zip file. Updated  03 Jan 2011 

Analysis by  Houdini 2.0 cracked

The comments are edited for easy use and
conformity with the ChessBase software.

 Rybka 4.0   P-IV  2.4 GHz  512 MB hash   Analysis time: 20 min / ply ⇒ (87-18)×20:60= 23 h 

The annotations includes comments by several GM's,
such as Kasparov, Seirawan, Kavalek, Ftacnik,
Stohl, Byrne, Short, Winants, Speelman, Morgado
and many others + some strong chess engines!

“My foremost ambition was to make these
  annotations easy to follow for the reader.”
Ten years after this Immortal Game Topalov was at the top of the FIDE list
and had exactly the same Elo rating (2812) as Kasparov at that time!
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b2r3r/k4p1p/p2q1np1/NppP4/3p1Q2/P4PPB/1PP4P/1K1RR3 w - - 0 24 bm Rxe4
b2r3r/k4p1p/p2q1np1/NppP4/3R1Q2/P4PPB/1PP4P/1K2R3 b - - 0 24 bm Kb6
b2r3r/k4p1p/p2q1np1/Np1P4/3p1Q2/P4PPB/1PP4P/1K2R3 w - - 0 25 bm Re7+
b2r3r/4Rp1p/p2q1np1/1p1P4/kP1Q4/P4PPB/2P4P/1K6 w - - 0 28 bm Ra7; Kavalek
3r3r/1R3p1p/p4np1/1p1q4/kP6/P1Q2PPB/2P4P/1K6 b - - 0 30 bm Re8
3r3r/1R3p1p/p4Qp1/1p6/kPq5/P4PPB/2P4P/1K6 b - - 0 31 bm Rd1
r3r3/5p1p/pR3np1/1p1q4/kP6/P1Q2PPB/2P4P/1K6 w - - 0 32 bm Bf1; Ligterink
3r3r/1R3p1p/6p1/1p6/2q5/5PPB/1Q5P/1K1k4 w - - 0 36 bm Bf1
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A quick way to check a Houdini 2 patch is to analyze this position:

r1b1kn1r/1pq1bp2/1np1p3/2N1N1p1/p2PP2p/P1Q1B1P1/1P3PBP/3R1RK1 b kq - 0 21

The engine should quicly give an eval of about +1.
All the patched versions are starting with an eval of about 0.2.
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