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Kasparov vs Anand 1996, big blunder!

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Kasparov is one of the greatest chess champions who has very aggressive style, but we all are humans and make blunders!

In this blog, we will watch the game where Kasparov made a very big blunder in the blitz world championship and lost!
You can watch the game here :

https://lichess.org/study/ceYh6Jbr/hKg4LLFB#0

1.e4 c5 Sicillian Defense on the board 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 Najdorf variation on the board 6.Be3 Ng4 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bh5 g5 Very aggressive variant by Kasparov! 9.Bg3 Bg7 10.Be2 h5 11.Bxh5 Bg4 12.f3 Bd7 This all is theory! 13. Bf2 Nc6 14. Qd2 Ne5 15. O-O g4 - Black usually is attacking on the kingside and white in the center 16. f4 Nc4 17. Qe2 Black keeps king in the center and is attacking Rc8 18. b3 Na3 Kasparov attacking c2 pawn 19. Nd5 e6 20. Nb4 better was Nb6! Qa5 attacking the b4 knight and defending our a3 knight 21. Qe1 h4 Kasparov attacking on the kingside and queenside too! His position is much better 22. Be3 Anand makes this move to not be attacked by g3 h3 23. g3 Nb5 24. Rd1 Nc3 25. Nd3 Qc7 The rook and pawn are hanging, Anand in trouble! 26. Rc1 Nxe4 27. f5 Vishy is trying to create attack! e5 28. f6 Nxf6 29. Nf5 Bxf5 30. Rxf5 Qc6 31. Qe2 Qe4 32. Rf2 Nd5 attacking the bishop, Anand in trouble 33. Re1 Qxe3?? Very big blunder!!! After Qxg4 Rook and queen and bishop are attacked! Kasparov was very sad when he understood that he blundered! Awww! But Kasparov is a fighter and will not resign! 34. Qxg4 O-O 35. Rxe3 Nxe3 36. Qxh3 Nxc2 37. Qd7 Nd4 Kasparov still has an active knight 38. Qxb7 a5 a pawn is important 39. Kg2 Rc3 40. Nb2 Nc2 with Ne3 and checkmate ideas 41. Nc4 d5 42. Nd6 Ne3+ 43. Kh3 f5 44. Qd7 f4 45. Qe6+ Kh7 46. Nf7 Knight goes to g5 and Kasparov in trouble Rxf7 47. Qxf7 Rc6 48. gxf4 Rf6 49. Qc7 e4 50. f5 d4 51. Qe7 Garry can't defend e4 pawn, this is a problem! Rh6+ 52. Kg3 Nd1 53. Rf4 e3 54. Rg4 and there is forced checkmate in 3 and Kasparov resigned!