[Event "Nat-A '95"] [Site "Madras"] [Date "1995.??.??"] [Round "17"] [White "Konguvel, P.."] [Black "Prasad, D V.."] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C07"] [Annotator "Sundararajan Kidambi"] [PlyCount "79"] [EventDate "1995.03.??"] [EventType "tourn"] [EventRounds "17"] [EventCountry "IND"] [EventCategory "5"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. Ngf3 cxd4 6. Bc4 Qd6 7. O-O Nf6 8. Nb3 Nc6 9. Nbxd4 Nxd4 10. Nxd4 a6 11. c3 Qc7 12. Qe2 Bd6 13. h3 O-O 14. Rd1 b5 15. Bd3 Bb7 16. a4 bxa4 $6 {Perhaps a nervous decision of the last round.} ( 16... b4 {seems logical, without weakning the pawn on a6.}) 17. Rxa4 Qb6 18. Bg5 Nd5 19. Rda1 a5 20. Nb5 Be7 $6 {Again the exchange of dark squared Bishops seems to favour White.} 21. Bxe7 Nxe7 22. Nd4 Ng6 $2 {And finally allowing an exchange of Bishop for a Knight worsens Black's position considerably.} 23. Bxg6 $1 {A slightly counter intuitive, but a brilliant strategic solution.} hxg6 24. Qb5 Qc7 25. Rxa5 Rab8 26. Ra7 Qc8 27. Qe2 Re8 28. R1a4 e5 29. Nf3 Qf5 30. b4 g5 31. R4a5 g4 32. hxg4 Qxg4 33. Rxe5 Red8 34. Re3 Bd5 35. Rae7 Ra8 36. Ne1 Qf4 37. Re8+ Rxe8 38. Rxe8+ Rxe8 39. Qxe8+ Kh7 40. Qe3 {A very fine win in the style of Karpov. White hardly did anything other than 'right' exchanges. The last threat of Queen exchange leading to a resignation from the opponent is a telling finale!} 1-0