Lubomir Kavalek – Anatoly Karpov, Montreal 1979
Throughout his lengthy chess career, Anatoly Karpov has been a leading exponent of the Ruy Lopez with both colors. His principled encounters with Victor Korchnoi to a very large degree defined the modern theory of this opening; however, in all those games Karpov played with White pieces. This game is one of those rare instances when he ventured to play the Open Variation with Black.
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