79 Year Old Viktor Korchnoi Beats Fabiano Caruana

79 year old Viktor Korchnoi beats 18 year old rising star Fabiano Caruana at 2011 Gibraltar Masters. In Spanish Game Korchnoi chooses a rare line which was first played exactly 100 years ago at a tournament in San Sebastián by Maroczy but the famous Hungarian's plan was more cautious. Viktor has something quite aggressive in mind and soon he launches a pawn storm on the king-side and his attack turns out to be decisive. The young grandmaster fails to show resistance against his experienced rival!
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Fabiano Caruana vs Viktor Korchnoi
Tradewise Gibraltar (2011), Catalan Bay GIB, rd 2, Jan-26
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Anderssen Variation (C77)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 Nd7 9. Be3 Nb6 10. Bb3 Kh8 11. Nbd2 f5 12. Bxb6 cxb6 13. Bd5 g5 14. h3 g4 15.hxg4 fxg4 16. Nh2 Bg5 17. Nc4 b5 18. Ne3 Bxe3 19. Rxe3 Qf6 20. Qe1 Ne7 21.f3 Nxd5 22. exd5 Rg8 23. Qg3 gxf3 24. Qxf3 Bf5 25. Rf1 Rg5 26. Kh1 Qh6 27. Rf2 Rag8 28. Re1 Qg6 29. Re3 Bxd3 30. Kg1 e4 31. Qh3 Rxd5 32. Qd7 Rg5 33. g4 Qh6 34. Rf7 R5g7 35. Rxg7 Rxg7 36. Qd8+ Rg8 37. Qb6 Qf6 38. Qxb7 Rf8 39. Qa7 b4 40.Rh3 Qg7 41. Qe3 bxc3 42. bxc3 Qxc3 43. Rh5 d5 44. g5 Qa1+ 45. Kg2 Bf1+ 46. Kg3 Qe5+
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Video Icon Attribution: By Andreas Kontokanis from Piraeus, Greece (Viktor Korchnoi) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)], via Wikimedia Commons
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