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It's Over-Topalov is Tops!

American Gata Kamsky, on the black side of a Tarrasch French defense today, lost game 7 of the match to determine the opponent to challenge World Champion Viswanathan Anand. The win sealed the match for former World Champion Veselin Topalov. The final score was 4.5-2.5. It appears Kamsky's strategy of playing static positions with black backfired while Topalov's strategy of avoiding the Sicilian was excellent inasmuch as it seemed to avoid Kamsky's preparation against the Najdorf . It seems the French against Topalov was not a good choice as it gave him no chances to get real counterplay vs. the Tarrasch variation. Any comments or opinions?

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  1. These guys are way over my head. It was quite neat to see them play live though. Doug, maybe we could look at some of these games together? - Tom.

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