By John Nunn, Vishy Anand
Visawanathan (Vishy) Anand comes from Chennai (Madras) in southern India. Having shot
to popularity as a baby, taking part in master-standard chess at lightning pace, he grew to become a
grandmaster in 1987 after successful the area Junior Championship. on the age of twenty-two he
established himself one of the world's elite through profitable the 1991/2 Reggio Emilia
tournament sooner than Kasparov and Karpov, defeating either of their person video games. In
1995, he challenged Garry Kasparov for the realm championship in ny, and
although Kasparov gained finally, it was once a tricky struggle, with Anand top after nine
games. In 2000, he completed his maximum successes up to now, successful either the FIDE
World Cup and the FIDE global Championship.
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Gurevich in consecutive rounds that made me a qualifier for the Candidates. My next major event was the Novi Sad Olympiad towards the end of 1990. I have always enjoyed playing in Olympiads. Dubai 1986 and Manila 1992 were my favourites; in both cases the organizers went all-out to make the players feel comfortable. However, the Novi Sad Olympiad was also pleas ant, despite the cold and dismal weather. In general I enjoyed playing events in the former Yugoslavia because of the great public interest, which always ensured a good turnout of spectators.
33 c7 wins) without allowing Black to ANAND - MOROV/t FERNANDEZ. NOV/ SAD OLYMPIAD 1990 53 take the c4-pawn in return,which should be enough foc a clear advan tage. l:te836 "ild8 is also effective) 35 ... if7 38 "ile7 wins . 2) 33 ... l:tafll ! ia6! l:td8 39 "ile6 Wf8 and Black draws. l:te8?? A time-trouble blunder. Black could force a draw by 33 ... l:taf8! l:tcf7 37 11xb6. 34 We6! 33 c7?! 33 'i'c6 is a better try: 1) 33. ff8? 34 'il'e7 wins im mediately. ixd5 (or 34.. ic8 36 'ii'e8+ l:tf8 .
The following eventful game was played in round 7. Game 9 V. Anand - I . tg7 lllr6 0-0 d6 llld7 (D) 9 0-0 I had played the white side of the Maroczy Bind before, including a good win against Larsen from the Cannes event mentioned previously. tc6. Morovic adopts a rather unusual move, re-deploying his knight to the queenside. lllc5, it seemed rea sonable to prepare to meet it with b4. It perhaps looks a little odd to put the rook on b I rather than c I or (after 'l'd2) d l , but in fact White often puts his rooks on b l and c 1 in this varia tion, in order to support a queenside pawn advance.