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The Game of the Century

Kasparov (2812) vs. Topalov (2700)

61^st Hoogovens Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 1999

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

Veselin Topalov

1975.03.15

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[Event "Hoogovens (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 f6 3.c3 g6 4.e3 g7 5.d2 c6
6.f3 b5 7.ge2 bd7 8.h6 xh6 9.xh6 b7
10.a3 e5 11.0-0-0 e7 12.b1 a6 13.c1 0-0-0
14.b3 exd4! 15.xd4 c5 16.d1 b6! 17.g3 b8
18.a5 a8 19.h3 d5 20.f4+ a7 21.he1 d4
22.d5 bxd5 23.exd5 d6 24.xd4!! cxd4?!
25.e7+! b6 26.xd4+ xa5 27.b4+ a4 28.c3
xd5 29.a7 b7 30.xb7 c4 31.xf6 xa3?
32.xa6+ xb4 33.c3+! xc3 34.a1+ d2
35.b2+ d1 36.f1! d2 37.d7! xd7! 38.xc4
bxc4 39.xh8 d3 40.a8 c3 41.a4+ e1 42.f4 f5
43.c1 d2 44.a7
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Editor's Notes

I have collected about 100 different annotations from Internet of the famous game between Kasparov and Topalov into this file. ^{Updated 05 Sep 2010}

Analysis by Fritz 12

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

RYBKA 2.3.1 P-IV 2.4 GHz 512 MB hash Analysis time: 20 min/move (87-18)×20:60= 23 hours

My foremost ambition was to make these
annotations easy to follow for the reader.

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

Ten years after the 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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