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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Tag: Viktor Korchnoi
The open ruy lopez was a career favorite of Viktor Korchnoi, who played it consistently and with success against top flight opposition. The game could not be more different from the closed, maneuvering ruy lopez of the chigorin, breyer or zaitsev variations. In the open, black places his knight centrally and looks for active piece placement to immediately apply pressure on the white camp.
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