[Event "Candidates final"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "1974.??.??"] [Round "21"] [White "Korchnoi, Victor"] [Black "Karpov, Anatoly"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E17"] [WhiteElo "2670"] [BlackElo "2700"] [Annotator "Llewellyn, Alan"] [PlyCount "37"] [EventDate "1974.09.16"] [EventRounds "24"] [EventCountry "URS"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "1999.07.01"] {Anatoly Karpov lost this game in nineteen moves I wonder if this is some kind of record for him. Victor Korchnoi plays well with a well timed sacrifice but Anatoly does not defend well. The game was the culmination of the right to play Bobby Fischer in that it was the Candidates Final which turned out to be the right to be World Champion as Bobby Fischer did not take up his right to defend his title in 1975 a year after this game there and abouts.} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 b6 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. c4 Be7 6. Nc3 O-O 7. Qc2 c5 8. d5 exd5 9. Ng5 Nc6 10. Nxd5 g6 11. Qd2 $1 Nxd5 12. Bxd5 Rb8 $4 (12... Bxg5 13. Qxg5 Qxg5 14. Bxg5 Rfe8 $11) 13. Nxh7 $3 Re8 $4 {compounding his error a loss of material was forced but now mate looms.} 14. Qh6 Ne5 15. Ng5 Bxg5 16. Bxg5 Qxg5 (16... Qc7 17. Bf6 Nd3+ 18. Kf1 Bxd5 19. Qg7#) 17. Qxg5 {forced or Bf6 leads to mate.} Bxd5 {Nf3+ winning back the Queen with interest is threatened. Note before Bxd5 the Bishop on d5 was defending the f3 square.} 18. O-O Bxc4 19. f4 { Anatoly thought he was down too much material and to continue was hopeless so he resigned there. Although Victor won this game he went down in the match, thus he missed out on being World Champion he was to do so by a whisker two more times.} 1-0