#16 · The Octopus Game
World Chess Championship, Moscow · 1985 · vs Anatoly Karpov
You are Garry Kasparov.
b. 1963 · The Beast of Baku · Meet the Legend
Moscow, 1985, game sixteen. You are Garry Kasparov, 22 years old, playing for the crown against Karpov himself. Your knight has sat on d3 since move sixteen — the 'octopus', strangling White's whole position from inside his own camp. Now the harvest: eight moves that made this the most famous game of the most famous match of its era.
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