00:00I have to say that in the game against Karpov, I, for some reasons, I decided against sacrificing the queen and went back to E7, bad move, and Karpov played a very good game, he won it, it didn't help him to save the match because I was already two points ahead, and we drew the final game, game 24, I won the match, our last match, the fifth one.
00:22And I kept coming back, so thinking, okay, so what about this queen sacrifice? Because what I didn't like is just, you know, that when you take this pawn, the knight has to go back, and it's not the best location.
00:37And then suddenly I realized, it's always nice to take a pawn, but we already have a broken material balance. Black has two bishop and a pawn for the queen, one extra pawn maybe doesn't make much of a difference, what about playing the knight c2?
00:52That's a move I strongly recommend. That's a novelty that, you know, could be a game changer. White moves rook somewhere at the pawn, and then you go back, now knight is on d4, king d1, knight d7, knight e2, and here you can even play something like a6, preventing white from exchanging and going on b5,
01:18because when white takes here, you take, knight goes here, then you can go knight e5, and while you're still down, it's a queen versus two bishops, but look, the king is there, and position is still closed,
01:31and the moment your bishops will start operating, things can change quite dramatically. Maybe not knight e5, you can maybe play c5 immediately, so that's another interesting move.
01:43So, for instance, the game could end up with, for instance, bishop e7, queen e7, then you can force a draw, for instance. That's a perpetual attack on the queen.
01:53I would say that knight c2, it's quite a typical Garry Kasparov move.
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