In not being a professional player, deep prep is not a path I ever go down. Unsurprisingly, then, the move shown below, that being 13. …Rxc3, is not one I could play. Yes of course I know that such exchange sacrifices do occur in that defence to the extent where they are considered thematic, especially with the Dragon variation but the move below is not part of a position which has a bishop on g7 beaming down on the queenside, and black’s minor pieces are not set up for immediate counter-play either, so there’s no quick attack coming. The level of expertise required to pull that off against someone rated 2660 at the time was very high indeed, and obviously way above my level, along with everyone else on the planet!
This is a truly great game by Kasparov. It’s a shame he had to ruin things by shooting his mouth off after it (not exactly the first time he’s done that, please do you own research on that if you must). I would imagine his Armenian mother would not have been too pleased. You can find the game below.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1287630
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