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Your support makes all the difference.Garry Kasparov has been flaunting his talent in Buenos Aires this week in a clock simultaneous exhibition against the Argentine national team. Unlike a normal simul, in which the grandmaster wanders round in circles expecting his opponents to make a move each time he arrives at their board, a clock simul has games played under a normal time-control, with the simul-giver having to cope with the possibility that his clocks could be running on all the games at the same time.
On this occasion, Kasparov played against six grandmasters, scoring three wins and three draws on the first day's play and three wins, two draws and one loss on the second. Final score: Kasparov 81/2-Argentina 31/2.
In the first round, Kasparov took one quickish draw with the black pieces to give himself more time to spread his attention among the other games. He then beat Hugo Spangenberg, the best of the young Argentine grandmasters, even more quickly to cut the odds from one-against-six to one-against- four.
Here is his win against a veteran grandmaster who was a world title contender in the 1950s. In a well-known line of the Nimzo-Indian, Kasparov produced a novel idea with 10.0-0-0 and 11.Qd3! After 11...Nxg5 12.h4 White will regain the piece with great advantage thanks to his attack on d6. White confirmed his advantage with 16.Ne2! (when 16...exd5 is met by 17.Nf4 or 17.Nc3) and 18.e7! but the subsequent endgame still required great delicacy. At the end, Black cannot defend against Nxg7, when the knight returns to f5 and wins the h-pawn too - the culmination of the strategy begun with 21.h4 and 22.h5.
White: Garry Kasparov
Black: Oscar Panno
1 d4 Nf6 20 Ng3 Bg6
2 c4 e6 21 h4 h6
3 Nc3 Bb4 22 h5 Bh7
4 Qc2 0-0 23 Rh5 Kf7
5 a3 Bxc3+ 24 Rc4 Rxe7
6 Qxc3 b6 25 Rxe7+ Kxe7
7 Bg5 c5 26 Rxc5 Kd6
8 e3 d6 27 b4 Re8
9 dxc5 bxc5 28 Kd2 Re5
10 0-0-0 Ne4 29 Rxe5 Kxe5
11 Qd3 Nxf2 30 a4 Bg8
12 Bxd8 Nxd3+ 31 b5 Bb3
13 Bxd3 Rxd8 32 a5 Bc4
14 Be4 d5 33 b6 axb6
15 cxd5 Bb7 34 axb6 Bd5
16 Ne2 Nd7 35 e4 Bb7
17 dxe6 Bxe4 36 Ke3 Bc6
18 e7 Re8 37 Nf5 Bxe4
19 Rxd7 f6 38 g4 resigns
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