Winning idea keeps Timman's hopes alive
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Your support makes all the difference.JAN TIMMAN kept alive his hopes of a world chess championship challenge by defeating Nigel Short in the 11th game of the Candidates' Final in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, yesterday.
Short now leads 6-5 with three games left to play. The game, which had been adjourned on Tuesday, was resumed yesterday in a technically difficult endgame.
Short showed the fruits of his night's work by rattling off the first 14 moves of yesterday's session in a couple of minutes. However, Timman then came up with an idea that Short's team of analysts had apparently not considered. Short thought for more than 20 minutes on his 75th move, but 10 moves later found himself unable to prevent one of Timman's pawns from marching through to its queening square.
In the three games left, Short will twice have the advantage of the white pieces. He needs 1 1/2 points to win the match and the right to challenge Garry Kasparov for the world title.
The twelfth game will be played today. Here are the moves of game 11:
White: Timman
Black: Short
1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6
3 Nc3 Nf6 4 cxd5 exd5
5 Bg5 c6 6 Qc2 Be7
7 e3 Nbd7 8 Bd3 Nh5
9 Bxe7 Qxe7 10 Nge2 Nb6
11 0-0-0 g6 12 Kb1 Ng7
13 Ng3 Bd7 14 Rc1 0-0-0
15 Na4 Nxa4 16 Qxa4 Kb8
17 Rc3 b6 18 Ra3 Be8
19 Qc2 Rc8 20 Rc1 Bd7
21 Qd2 h5 22 Rb3 Ne6
23 Rbc3 h4 24 Ne2 Qd6
25 h3 Rhd8 26 Ng1 g5
27 Nf3 f6 28 R3c2 Ng7
29 Ka1 Bf5 30 Ne1 Kb7
31 Rc3 Bxd3 32 Nxd3 Nf5
33 Qc2 Ne7 34 Qa4 Ka8
35 a3 Qd7 36 Nb4 Kb7
37 Rb3 c5 38 Qxd7+ Rxd7
39 dxc5 d4 40 exd4 Rxd4
41 Nd3 Nd5 42 Kb1 Re8
43 cxb6 axb6 44 a4 Ka7
45 a5 bxa5 46 Rc5 Nb4
47 Rxa5+ Kb6 48 Nxb4 Rxb4
49 Raa3 Re1+ 50 Kc2 Re2+
51 Kc1 Kb5 52 Rxb4+ Kxb4
53 Rf3 Re1+ 54 Kd2 Rg1
55 Ke2 Kc4 56 Rxf6 Rxg2
57 Kf1 Rh2 58 Rf3 Rh1+
59 Kg2 Rb1 60 Rf5 Rxb2
61 Kf3 Rb1 62 Rxg5 Rf1
63 Rf5 Rg1 64 Rh5 Rf1
65 Rxh4+ Kd5 66 Rf4 Ke5
67 Kg2 Ra1 68 Rf8 Ke6
69 h4 Ke7 70 Rf4 Ra8
71 Kh3 Rh8 72 Kg4 Rg8+
73 Kh5 Ke6 74 Kh6 Ke5
75 Ra4 Rg2 76 f3 Rg3
77 Re4+ Kf5 78 Re8 Rg6+
79 Kh7 Rf6 80 Kg7 Rg6+
81 Kh7 Rf6 82 Re7 Ra6
83 Rf7+ Ke6 84 Kg7 Ra1
85 Rf6+ 1-0
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