Door’s ALWAYS Open for the Queen Sacrifice! – Vladimir Kramnik vs Viswanathan Anand – Las Palmas 96

The Supertorneo Las Palmas held from December 9th to the 21st, 1996 was a Category XXI event. The world’s six best players, including both World Champions, competed in a double round robin format. The participants were (in order of Elo): Garry Kasparov (2785), Anatoli Karpov (2775), Vladimir Kramnik (2765), Veselin Topalov (2750), Vishwanathan Anand (2735), and Vassily Ivanchuk (2730). The strongest tournament of the modern era (the only tournament with an average Elo of 2756), Kasparov emerged triumphant as “the best player in the world at that moment”.

1 Kasparov ** ½½ ½½ 1½ ½1 ½1 6½
2 Anand ½½ ** ½0 ½½ 1½ ½1 5½
3 Kramnik ½½ ½1 ** ½0 01 ½½ 5
4 Topalov 0½ ½½ ½1 ** 01 ½½ 5
5 Ivanchuk ½0 0½ 10 10 ** ½½ 4
6 Karpov ½0 ½0 ½½ ½½ ½½ ** 4

PGN OF THE GAME:

[Event “Import”]
[Site “https://lichess.org/0mDn63wr“]
[Date “2020.07.07”]
[White “Vladimir Kramnik”]
[Black “Viswanathan Anand”]
[Result “1-0”]
[WhiteElo “2765”]
[BlackElo “2735”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “A15”]
[Opening “English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Queen’s Indian Formation”]
[Termination “Normal”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. g3 Bb7 4. Bg2 e6 { A15 English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Queen’s Indian Formation } 5. O-O Be7 6. Nc3 O-O 7. Re1 d5 8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. e4 Nxc3 10. bxc3 c5 11. d4 Nd7 12. Bf4 cxd4 13. cxd4 Nf6 14. Ne5 Bb4 15. Re3 Rc8 16. d5 exd5 17. exd5 Bd6 18. Nc6 Bxc6 19. Bxd6 Ba4 20. Bxf8 Bxd1 21. Be7 Qc7 22. Rxd1 Nd7 23. Bh3 h6 24. Bf5 b5 25. Bb4 Rd8 26. Re7 Qc4 27. Rxd7 Rxd7 28. Bxd7 Qxb4 29. d6 Qa4 30. Rd3 Qe4 31. Bxb5 Qe1+ 32. Kg2 Qe4+ 33. Kg1 Qe1+ 34. Kg2 Qe4+ 35. Kf1 Qh1+ 36. Ke2 Qe4+ 37. Kf1 Qh1+ 38. Ke2 Qe4+ 39. Kd1 Qg4+ 40. f3 Qh3 41. d7 { Black resigns. } 1-0

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