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Anatoly Karpov vs. Veselin Topalov, Linares, 1994
Despite Linares 2011 being cancelled we can still enjoy the great matches it brought to the world. This video presents a game between Anatoly Karpov (Russia) and Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) from the chess super-tournament - Linares, 1994. This video is hands down one of my favorite games from what had to be one of the most famous chess tournaments of the 1990s (mostly due to a controversy about Kasparov taking back a move against Polgar, who later went on to be the only female player to beat Kasparov in an official match). The 1994 Linares tournament had an average ELO rating close to 2700, which at the time was the highest ever.
Anatoly Karpov in Linares 1994 - Performance rating 2900!
Former World Champion Karpov played one of the strongest tournaments in the history of chess, with a performance rating at over 2900! Karpov dominated the round-robin with a score of 11/13 against a field containing the other 13 best players in the world at the time (none other than Kasparov, Shirov, and Kamsky to name a few). Karpov is renowned for his exemplary and patient positional style. However in this game he sacrificed no less than 2 exchanges to win in forcing fashion with 7 consecutive checks at the end of the game. Although this chess game is a bit older, I wanted to present this game in respect to the tradition of the super-tournament - Linares, which I recently found out has been officially cancelled for the year 2011. Supposedly the tournament will be held in 2012; however doubts about adequate sponsorship remain. I hope you enjoy this video, which shows a crushing, sacrificial attack by one of the best chess players ever, Anatoly Karpov. I really hope that the Linares Chess Tournament comes back in 2012, having both Amber and Linares gone next year would be truly a blow to the chess scene.
How can we help prevent chess tournaments like these from being cancelled?
Finding out that Linares 2011 was going to be cancelled was a big disappointment and quite a bit of a shock considering how long it's been held. What do you guys think we can do to help these things from happening? I am truly curious.
Hope you enjoyed and thanks for reading.
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