Anatoly Karpov Amazing Immortal Chess game vs Unzicker - Ruy Lopez - Nice Olympiad 1974
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Who is Karpov ?
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993. He held the title until 1999, when he resigned his title in protest against FIDE's new world championship rules.His tournament successes include over 160 first-place finishes.[1][2] He had a peak Elo rating of 2780, and his 102 total months at world number one is the third longest of all time, behind Magnus Carlsen and Garry Kasparov, since the inception of the FIDE ranking list in 1970.
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World champion
Determined to prove himself a legitimate champion, Karpov participated in nearly every major tournament for the next ten years. He convincingly won the very strong Milan tournament in 1975, and captured his first of three Soviet titles in 1976. He created a phenomenal streak of tournament wins against the strongest players in the world. Karpov held the record for most consecutive tournament victories (9) until it was shattered by Garry Kasparov (14). As a result, most chess professionals soon agreed that Karpov was a legitimate world champion.[13]
In 1978, Karpov's first title defence was against Korchnoi, the opponent he had defeated in the 1973-75 Candidates' cycle; the match was played at Baguio, Philippines, with the winner needing six victories. As in 1974, Karpov took an early lead, winning the eighth game after seven draws to open the match. When the score was +5−2=20 in Karpov's favour, Korchnoi staged a comeback, and won three of the next four games to draw level with Karpov. Karpov then won the very next game to retain the title (+6−5=21).
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Who is Unzicker ?
Wolfgang Unzicker (26 June 1925 - 20 April 2006) was one of the strongest German chess Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970. He decided against making chess his profession, choosing law instead. Unzicker was at times the world's strongest amateur chess player, and World Champion Anatoly Karpov called him the "world champion of amateurs".
Unzicker was born in Pirmasens, a small town near Kaiserslautern in the province of Rhineland-Palatinate noted for shoemaking. His father taught him how to play chess at age 10. His brother, four years older, was also a chess player but was killed in World War II. Unzicker began to play tournaments abroad in 1948 as Germany was struggling to rebuild after the war, and achieved the grandmaster title in 1954. He won the German Championship six times from 1948 to 1963 and tied for first in 1965. From 1950 to 1978 Unzicker played in twelve Chess Olympiads, and was first board on ten of them. He played nearly 400 times representing Germany's national team. For many years he was legal advisor for the German Chess Association.
His tournament victories include the first place tie (+6−0=9) with Boris Spassky at the Chigorin Memorial in Sochi 1965, first at Maribor 1967 ahead of Samuel Reshevsky, first at Krems, and first at Amsterdam 1980 tied with Hans Ree. In 1950, Unzicker shared the prize for best top-board score (+9−1=4) with Miguel Najdorf for his performance on first board for the West German team at the Dubrovnik Chess Olympiad. At the Tel Aviv 1964 Chess Olympiad Unzicker scored 13.5 points playing first board for the West German team that won the bronze medal on the strength of a 3:1 team victory over the Soviet Union. Unzicker also shared fourth place (+2−1=14) with Lajos Portisch in the 1966 Piatigorsky Cup in Santa Monica, California. Only Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, and Bent Larsen finished ahead of Unzicker. Unzicker placed ahead of world champion Tigran Petrosian, Samuel Reshevsky, Miguel Najdorf, Borislav Ivkov, and Hein Donner. At Hastings 1969-70, Unzicker finished second (+4−0=5) after Lajos Portisch and ahead of Svetozar Gligorić and former world champion Vasily Smyslov. Unzicker finished second (+3−2=7) to Viktor Korchnoi at South Africa 1979. A retired judge, he was still playing chess as first board on the club team "Tarrasch Munich".
Unzicker had a classical chess style modelled after the German player and theorist Siegbert Tarrasch. In 1956 he lost a match to Paul Keres in which both players chose to begin with the Ruy Lopez opening in all eight games.
In 2005, Unzicker celebrated his 80th birthday with his wife Freia, his three sons and their wives and three grandchildren, and a tournament with Karpov, Korchnoi and Spassky took place in his honor.[1] Wolfgang Unzicker died on April 20, 2006, at the age of 80, during a holiday trip to Albufeira/Portugal.
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Incremental Positioning to its finest... just absolute boa constrictor... No space whatsoever for black to use it's pieces...that's how you win the game. Absolutely Beautiful
karpov is one of my favorites
The subtle moves of Karpov's play are absolutely mind blowing.
Great game. I have analyzed it with computers of various generations to grasp somewhat more of the "Karpovian Style", which I find rather impressive. Sure Tal, Kasparov and others are fascinating in their own abilities of calculation and attacking tactics. But you can always check all their variations to understand whats going on. Anatolys style I find much harder to understand - I see moves with very subtle effects which turn out to be game winning 20 moves or so later, rather impressive ;-)
I've seen hundreds of top level games on video, thousands played and witnessed in my life, but I've never seen someone resigning after only a pawn and a minor piece exchange! Only Karpov could do such a thing.
Cripes, what a game. It actually gave me the shivers at one point, those white pawns are like a claw around your neck, gradually getting tighter.
Its so cool watching Tal's tactical games and his Nf7s and the like, but tactics don't have anything on Ba7!!!!
This is a great game, one of my favorites. It's well covered in Karolyi's book, 'Karpov's Strategic Wins Volume 1'. One of the themes covered by Karolyi with regard to this is a general principle: When one has an advantage in space, it is often a good idea to attack on both wings, as the cramped opponent finds it difficult to transfer pieces to address both attacks. Also, apparently Karpov got the idea of Ba7 from Spassky in game 10 of their candidates match.
What a great game. I think that Bb1 is much more impressive than Ba7. Karpov is slowly turning into my favorite player ever!
He is both incredibly strong and deep, huh?
These briliancy videoes are even more entertaining than the Chesscube 1-hour long clips! :) Thank you KC!
A really engaging and thorough analysis , thankyou
OMG how I was waiting for this. Thanks KC! I love Karpy
Yes, exactly! In the larger, more strategic sense it is well in line with Averbakh's (I think it was Averbakh) idea that all successful chess play is based on double attack of some sort or other.
One of the reasons you lose games is to overlook what your opponents is threatening in his next moves. But how can you see that Ba7 is a threat??? This is how hard chess can be.
Tryphon, what about going through Karpov -Kasparov 100 + draws to show us some of Karpov's positional pull which could have, with the aid of modern computer, ended in a win against one of the most formidable players of all time? That would be quite instructive to dig at that somewhat underexplored area of knowledge.
unzicker made one mistake in the opening and karpov capitalized on that.. the title of this game should've been "how to capitalize on positional mistakes in the opening". very instructive
I really like the slow buildup and how white wasn't in a hurry to move the bishop on a7 and instead used the time to start building on the king side. Very instructive game. Black had no counter play and as the engine showed, probably should have dissolved the tension on the A file when given the chance to offer more resistance.
I found the bishop move, but Qg6 like 20 minutes in made me go "Oh man"
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karpov has always been my favorite since fischer didn't have the guts to play him.
Right, Fischer effectively chickened out. And that alone is enough, despite his brilliance from 69-72, to discount claims of him being the greatest, ahead of the likes of Capablanca and Kasparov. Karpov is a bit underrated, partly because of his style.
Ah, got it now, thank you very much.
Despite this win, Karpov told later that Unzicker was the greatest chess amateur he ever played with.
Tryfon is quite an unusual name, isn't it? Professor Tryphon Tournesol (Professor Calculus in English version) was an eccentric inventor in Tintin books. This is one of your best and most memorable videos, imo.
The variation I am alluding to is Bxh5 Nxh5 Qxh5?? Nxf6+ followed by Qxh5
Lovely game =D
Lol, i saw that Kg6 move, i feel so good about myself now :)
This is possibly my favourite Karpov game. I don't really like his immortal game against Topalov, it's too tactical.
@charlesleseau Ahh so like a big form of double attack in a sense - attacking both sides !
Vidit used the same Ba7 vs Alireza in the 2024 Candidates tournament
I have respect beyond limits for Karpov, and I don't want to make Unzicker look small, not at all, but Max Euwe was the greatest player in amateur chess! He was the only World Champion ever who never played professionally.
and if im not mistaken kasparov or even karpov mentioned that opponent has to have not one but like two or more weakness and then he cant cover them all equally good and you crash thru at some point. so actually its double attack idea.
Ironically before watching this video I was playing with this idea on how to think about chess moves and that sometimes you should look at how to limit your opponents moves/development instead of looking at your own pieces.
So at 10:31 I spotted Ba7 within a couple seconds, blacks pieces are not doing much at all except for his rook on the A file so what is the best way to limit that play?
I don't know if this is the correct line of thought here but I will try to use it more in my own games.
6:12 Am I the only one who is thinking that c4 is a good move for black at this timepoint?
What program can you use to have the chess engine give a list of top moves and their values (like shown in the video)?
+WarpRulez it's called kibitzing and many chess GUIs have it: chessbase (paid) or Arena (free)
I'v seen the karpov move and the idea behind it is that mean that I'm good in someway in positional understunding ? cause I'm taking time to see positional players to develop cause I'm more of a tactical player I need more positional understunding
@20:37 , I really don't see how that ends up with White winning the Queen. White loses a Knight and a Bishop for a Bishop and a Pawn.
You say the engine "liked" 24 Ba7? Is that because it has this position in its data-base as being won by Karpov?
Karpov's signature move?
This game should be called "Traffic jam" all blacks pieces stuck in traffic, just sitting around doing nothing important. No counter play at all baby!!!! What a game!!!!!
Hi could you redo this game and make it under 10 minutes. Thanks
+Mydnight No, this game obviously deserves every last second
Ba7 it's magic.
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qc7 then nd8 would have solved ba7?????
EddieHedrick White just put Rea1 (after moving the Bc2) and the N in d8 goes where after that? it doenst have any good square to move yet.
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