Kasparov vs Anand, 1995
New York City

Although stripped of his title by FIDE for holding his 1993 match with Short outside the world chess body's auspices, Kasparov was nevertheless widely considered the legitimate World Champion. The Professional Chess Association (PCA) created by Kasparov held a series of a series of candidate matches to choose an opponent for him. Viswanathan Anand succeeded in becoming the champions opponent.

	Kasparov and Anand play above New York City

The 1995 PCA title match was played on the Observation Deck on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center in New York City. The prize fund was 1,500,000 US$, with 2/3 for the winner. Ten percent of the fund would to go to the PCA. In case of a tied match, Kasparov would retain the PCA title, but the prize would be split. The match was to last 20 games instead of the traditional 24, each game played at 40 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves in 1 hour, followed by 30 minutes to complete the game, There were to be no timeouts and no adjournments.

The match started with eight straight draws (a record for the opening of a world championship match) until Anand drew first blood by winning game nine. This victory was not to be enjoyed for very long, as Kasparov then rebounded by dominantly winning four of the next five games.

After 18 games, with a final score of 10½ to 7½ Kasparov retained the PCA World Chess Champion title.

FINAL SCORE:  Kasparov 10½;  Anand 7½

GAME #10:Anand surged ahead with a win in game 9 after a string of eight draws. The turning point came in this amazing game that sheds light on Kasparov's deep opening preparation. Blitzing out his first 22 moves in under five minutes, he caught Anand by surprise with a brilliant rook sacrifice on move 17. Demoralized by this defeat, Anand failed to win another game as Kasparov proceeded to defend his PCA title by the lopsided score of 10.5-7.5.

Nice game and nice pic

This is one of the best events in the history of Chess.

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Thank you.The very beautifull game.The move Bh6 very beautifull move.

what a match