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Originally Posted by Jeff W
IMHO that was a very memorable game and 23. c5! was a nice clearance
sacrifice. How often does Kasparov end up with such a "hideous position"
as somebody remarked?
If only Ivanchuk weren't so reflective and had his head in the clouds, he
could be a world champion or near the top (he's likely to be 2nd or 3rd on
the next rating list). He often spends about ten minutes looking at the
"other games" while his clock is running and still "flags" when he could just
simply find any move! He played well at Linares this year (2nd on tiebreak
behind Grischuk) which was a pretty disappointing tournament for Anand
(and maybe also for Carlsen for blundering a won position in the penultimate
round against Radjabov).
I don't really have any favorite grandmaster game, since there's so many
excellent examples in the Informator ("informant") of the ten best games of
the issue.