[Event "Frankfurt Giants"]
[Site "Frankfurt"]
[Date "1998.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Anand, Vishy"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "Hartwig,Th"]
[ECO "B90"]
[EventDate "1998.??.??"]
[PlyCount "77"]

{ The last round I played at the US Open will only be annotated for Michigan Chess.  Sorry about misleading you but I hadn't thought everything through myself... instead you will see a much higher quality game (-:    This is the game I referred to in last week's notes.  It is, I think, an excellent model of how to play this opening from the white side, if that interests you.  Otherwise just enjoy some very sophisticated chess! } 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Ng4 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4 g5 $5 { Very suspicious looking at first sight, but black will not necessarily castle kingside, and he hopes to control the dark-squares and keep the initiative. The f8-bishop is prepared to fianchetto without losing time.  By the way, these are just my observations and, be as they may, the opening has gone respectable in the last few years. } 9. Bg3 Bg7 10. Be2 ( 10. h3 $5 Ne5 11. f3 { is actually interesting too, but obviously involves an undesirable loss of time. } ) 10... h5 11. Bxg4 $1 { Instead of trying to detonate the position, white has found an efficient way to deploy his pieces based on challenging the a1-h8 diagonal with a gain of time. } ( 11. h3 $2 { was what white tried in the early days, but it isn't too good: } 11... h4 12. hxg4 ( 12. Bxg4 hxg3 13. Bxc8 ( 13. fxg3 $4 Bxg4 $19 ) 13... gxf2+ $15 ) 12... hxg3 13. Rxh8+ Bxh8 14. fxg3 Nc6 15. Nf5 ( 15. Nxc6 bxc6 $17 ) 15... Be5 16. Qd3 ( 16. Kf2 Qb6+ ) 16... e6 $17 ) 11... Bxg4 { Remember that in last week's game black played 11...hxg4.  The bishop recapture certainly appears more natural, however, and I think that you have to know this game to understand why someone would take with the pawn. } 12. f3 $1 Bd7 13. Bf2 Nc6 14. Qd2 Ne5 15. b3 e6 16. Nde2 $1 Rc8 17. Bd4 $1 b5 18. Nd1 $1 { Notice that white deliberately delayed queenside castling for this manuever. } 18... Rg8 19. Ne3 a5 20. O-O-O a4 21. Kb1 axb3 22. cxb3 Ra8 23. Bc3 Ra6 24. Nc2 { Intending 25. Nb4. } 24... Bf8 { This one must have really hurt to play, as black's position depends on active pieces to compensate for the structural weaknesses. } 25. Nb4 Ra8 26. Nd4 Be7 ( 26... Bg7 27. Ndc2 Bf8 28. Ne3 $16 ) 27. Rhe1 Qc8 28. Bb2 Qb7 29. Ndc2 f6 $6 { Finally giving white a fresh complex of pawn weaknesses, which he latches onto within the next few moves. } 30. Nd4 $1 h4 31. g3 $1 g4 32. f4 Nf3 33. Nxf3 gxf3 34. f5 $1 { Excellent.  White grabs control of d5, and completely destroys the potential of black's center pawns.  By the way I like this move for another reason... it fits in with my reaction theory (which is just an expanded version of something Motwani describes in S.T.A.R. Chess) - see the first Rubinstein game I annotated for details.  Basically this is a reaction to 29...f6. } 34... hxg3 35. hxg3 Rxg3 36. Qh2 Rg5 37. Bc1 Rg7 38. Qh5+ Rf7 39. Qxf3 $1 { Black resigned. 39... Bf8, while objectively toughest, would have been very dismal, while 39... exf5 goes down in flames. Normally, one would play either line out, but this just wasn't Kasparov's day. } ( 39. Qxf3 Bf8 ( 39... exf5 40. Nd5 fxe4 41. Rxe4 Bc6 42. Rxe7+ Rxe7 43. Nxf6+ Kd8 ( 43... Kf8 44. Bh6+ Kf7 45. Qh5+ Ke6 46. Re1+ $18 ) 44. Rxd6+ Kc7 45. Qf4 Kc8 46. Qf5+ Bd7 47. Nxd7 Rxd7 48. Qe6 Qc7 49. Rc6 $18 { Some or all of this line is from notes in New In Chess.  Unfortunately I don't have the issue in front of me now, but anyway the credit is not mine. } ) 40. Qh3 exf5 ( 40... e5 41. Qh8 $16 ) 41. exf5+ Kd8 42. Bf4 $16 ) 1-0