The blunder of Seville
29 December 2006 15:47 PM CET | Last modified: 12:59 | By Arne Moll | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Blunder, Match, Videos
Good news at the end of the year. Someone posted images on Youtube of the dramatic eleventh match game Karpov-Kasparov, Seville 1987! Kasparov’s faces after Karpov’s blunder 35.Rc6?? have become legendary but were not, as far as I know, available on internet before.
What I had forgotten (it was, after all, 19 years ago) is that Kasparov reacts quite coolly at first, and only starts making faces after he has made his move.
Seville 1987 was my first World Championship match als a chess lover. Thanks to the images of this game and the exciting boy’s novel Child of Change, Kasparov’s autobiography that was considered by everyone (including, curiously, Donner and Krabbé) to be the book of a lunatic, I became a fan of the thirteenth world champion.
And it’s true, seeing these old images does brings back some of those boyish feelings of excitement…
and not a 
, I confused them. And don’t tell me you were just joking, I’m not that stupid…)
This was my third WC-match (after KK 1983 and 1984), but this footage is a revelation on how one’s memory can plays tricks on you. Was all the fuzz about just that?
Let op hoe snel en hoog Kasparovs ademhaling is na het zien van de blunder. De adrenaline moet als ee n gek door zijn aderen stromen op dat moment.
Very interesting to see Kasparov’s reaction! I can’t believe the faces he pulls.