From: Dennis Baker <helios!canal.crc.uno.edu!DCBCS@tssi.com>
Subject: Karpov-Short game 3 (draw)
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:48:00 GMT


Thanks again to Peter Rice!  Here's the finish of game 3.

Dennis Baker
<DCBCS@uno.edu>


Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 11:07:00 +0100
From: Peter Rice <Peter.Rice@EMBL-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Karpov-Short 3 (draw)

Nigel Short failed to win the adjourned position in game 3. Karpov gave up a
second pawn to activate his pieces, and Short's Knight was stuck out of
play on h2. Karpov said "Short lost his chance to win".

Short was eventually left with only the a-pawn in a Rook ending. In the final
position, there is no way to get his Rook out from in front of the pawn, as
White can play Ra8 and keep checking whenever the King tries to support the
pawn. The White King has to stay on h2 or g2. If the King goes to, for
example, h3 then Black has Rh1+ and promotes the pawn, while if the King
strays to f2 there is the familiar trick of ...Rh1, Rxa2 Rh1+ to pick up the
Rook. Naturally, both players had seen this coming a long time before.

The match score is now 2-1 to Karpov. Short has White in today's 4th game.

In the other match between Yusupov and Timman, game 3 was drawn and Yusupov
now leads by 2-1.

White: Anatoly Karpov
Black: Nigel Short
Candidates Semi Final game 3

Adjournment position after White's 50th move

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|   |...|   |...|   |...|   |...| 8
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|...|   |...|   |...|   |...|   | 7
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| P |...|   |...| N |...|   |...| 6
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|...| P |.P.|   |.K.|   |...|   | 5
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|   |...|   |.R.|   |.P.|   |...| 4
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|...|*P*|...|*N*|...|*P*|...| P | 3
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|*P*|   |*R*|   |*K*|   |...|*P*|...| 2
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|...|   |...|   |...|   |...|   | 1
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h

>1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc 3.e4 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 5.Bxc4 Nb6 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Be3 Nb4 8.Be4 f5
>9.exf6 exf 10.Nc3 f5 11.Bf3 N4d5 12.Bd2 Be6 13.Nge2 Qd7 14.0-0 0-0-0
>15.Re1 Rg8 16.Bg5 Re8 17.Nf4 Nxf4 18.Bxf4 g5 19.Be5 Bg7 20.Rc1 Bxe5
>21.dxe5 Qxd1 22.Bxd1 a6 23.g3 Re7 24.b3 Rd7 25.f3 Nd5 26.Na4 b6 27.Be2 Kb7
>28.Bc4 c5 29.Kf2 Rgd8 30.Re2 Nc7 31.Rcc2 Kc6 32.Nb2 b5 33.Bxe6 Nxe6
>34.Rc1 Rd4 35.Ke1 R4d5 36.Kf2 Nd4 37.Re3 f4 38.gxf gxf 39.Re4 Ne6 40.Rc2 Rd2+
>41.Re2 Rxc2 42.Rxc2 Rd4 43.Re2 Kd5 44.Kg2 h5 45.Kf1 h4 46.Kg2 Ng5
>47.Kf2 h3 48.Rc2 Ne6 49.Ke2 Kxe5 50.Nd3+ adjourned.

50...Kd6 51.Nf2 Rd5 52.Rc3 Kc6 53.Nxh3 Rh5 54.Nf2 Rxh2 55.Kf1 Kd5 56.Rd3+ Nd4
57.Kg1 Rh6 58.Ne4 c4 59.bxc bxc 60.Rd1 Rc6 61.Nc3+ Ke5 62.Kf1 Rh6 63.Re1+ Kf5
64.Re8 Nxf3 65.Ne2 Nh2+ 66.Kg1 f3 67.Rf8+ Ke5 68.Ng3 Rh7 69.Kf2 c3
70.Rc8 Kd4 71.Rd8+ Kc4 72.Nf5 Rc7 73.Ne3+ Kb5 74.Rd1 Ka4 75.Rc1 Rd7
76.Rxc3 Rd2+ 77.Kg3 f2 78.Rc4+ Ka3 79.Rf4 f1=N+ 80.Nxf1 Nxf1+ 81.Rxf1 a5
82.Rf5 a4 83.Rf4 Rxa2 84.Rf3+ Kb4 85.Rf4+ Kc3 86.Rf3+ Kd4 87.Rf4+ Ke5
88.Rb4 a3 89.Rb3 Ke4 90.Kh3 Kd4 91.Rg3 Ra1 92.Kh2 Ke4 93.Rb3 a2 94.Ra3 Drawn

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