The crisis was on. With no venue for the second part of the championship and no prize fund, both players decided to boycott the coming game. The players decided to draw in 10 moves and left immediately the stage! After a short meeting between FIDE representatives and the players, Timman was the first to accept to continue the match despite the uncertainty of the situation and knowing that never the FIDE President missed a dead line regarding the world championship. Campomanes confirmed: “Be sure you will get at least SF 1,000,000 as the regulations states so”.
Game 12
Game 12
The last game of this first part was played without any passion. Both players have their brain busy with much more concerns than chess variation. They decided to play solid and wait for more important news. A draw was sanctioned after 51 moves. Not easy of course for FIDE. Despite a last minute meeting, which attracted JP. Touze from France and the very well known B. Kok, FIDE had no serious financial offer on the table. Campomanes sleepless managed to convince one of his old friends B. Hassan to rescue the championship by providing one of his hotel in Jakarta as the hosting venue with some cash for the prize fund.
Game 13
Game 13
Reti Opening
The battle resumed in the Hilton Jakarta Convention on October, 17. Timman two points down and playing with White decided for passive variation of the Reti system which didn’t make to much pressure on Karpov. Both players agree with a peaceful draw after 26 moves.
Game 14
Game 14
Queen’s Gambit
Karpov wanted to double check if Timman improved their game 6 but it showed that 11. Bf4?! was clearly inferior on 11. Qd4 played in game 8. To find some counter-play Karpov spent a lot of time before to decide to exchange Bishop and Knight for a Rook. Timman played smoothly 15…Ndf6 which was not bad but missed Nef6 which was better. No doubt White was in trouble after 17. f3?. Karpov played 17… Nxc3 a surprisingly provocative move which trapped Timman instead of Td8 which was winning. With 18.Qd6 Karpov was clearly better and no doubt that from now Timman was clearly demoralized. Missing few chances of draw he played weakly the rest of the game and resigned at move 53. Was it the key game of the match? For sure Timman missed a great come back and now with three points down it looks completely over.
Game 15
Game 15
Nimzo-Indian Defense
Timman tried to avoid some drawish position Karpov went for an exchange’s sacrifice which left Timman without any decent plan. Then the Russian started to play actively and completely crushed the White position. Probably his best game in the match.
Game 16
Game 16
King’s India Defense
The nightmare for Timman continued. Trying to keep the game very complicated Timman missed the opportunity to punish a dubious novelty played by Karpov on move 8 with Nh3. In contrary he was already in trouble after move 12. Karpov then had a very easy game so easy that he missed a mate in 3 moves with 45. Rd3! but managed somehow to finish off after move 53.
Game 17
Game 17
Caro Kann
The Dutch player had the merit to battle until the end. More relax maybe because his task was impossible. The very sharp Advance variation saw Karpov very well prepared and after good defensive moves forced his opponent to a draw.
Game 18
Game 18
King’s Indian Defense
Karpov was looking for a fast draw. By all means he provoked exchanges and soon reached a K vs. B endgame slightly better for him but not enough to claim the full point.
Game 19
Game 19
Queen’s Indian Defense
A dubious opening played by Karpov gave to Timman good chances. But Karpov found some weakness in White’s position and again showed brilliant defense to eventually reach a theoretical draw.
Game 20
Game 20
English Opening
With only half point needed to close the match, Karpov as expected chose a secured line. The game followed a recent line played by Korchnoi but for some reason Karpov delayed to castle leaving is King in the center exposed to threats. This time Timman didn’t missed the opportunity to build a winning attack. The Dutch scored his first victory in Indonesia but too late for any comeback.
Game 21
Game 21
Nimzo-Indian Defense
A full theoretical game and when Timman didn’t see any change of taking any advantage of the position he kindly offered a draw to his opponent. Finally Karpov unexpectedly was crowned for the fourth time of his life as World Champion.
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
Total
Timman, J
0
1
½
½
½
0
½
½
½
0
½
½
½
0
0
0
½
½
½
1
½
8 ½
Karpov, A
1
0
½
½
½
1
½
½
½
1
½
½
½
1
1
1
½
½
½
0
½
12 ½
At the final press conference Timman said: “Karpov is not world’s number one. Kasparov has proved himself the best in both tournament and match play. Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’ m not sure what that really means.” Karpov replied: “There are two systems now with two World Champions. Of course we have only one World Champion. I don’t think the break away was good for chess.”
