Kasparov's Art of War broken down into chunks Part Two

Hello Chess Lovers
Today I would like to take a look at another Kasparov gem which features some of Kasparov's most outstanding attributes as a player: enormous preparation off the board and really enormous pressure on the board with the white pieces. We will look at how his attacking philosophy worked in the 1980s.

Kasparov v Nunn
Lucerne Olympiad 1982

1.d4Nf6 2.c4e6 3.Nc3c5 4.d5ed5 5.cd5d6 6.e4g6 7.f4The Taimanov attack. This had a good score in the 1980s. White wants to breakthrough in the center with an eventual e4-e5 push. He also believes his space advantage will be lasting.

7....Bg7 8.Bb5+Nfd7 9.a4! This allows the bishop to retreat after ...a6 but also restricts the black queen side.

9....Na6 Nunn wants to solve his opening issues and move on to castling later.He also wants to get more information about Kasparov's intentions. 10.Nf3Nb4 11.0-0a6? 12.Bd7Bd7 13.f5 very direct.
Kasparov wishes to play Bg5.Its interesting to note that Kasparov his using his minor pieces in a classical way.The knights are on the most active posts and the bishops go to their most active posts. Now that the knight on d7 is exchanged Kasparov embarks on the strategy where he will have more pieces on the king side.

13....0-0 14.Bg5f6 Kasparov was threatening f6. Kasparov had this other method of preparing an attack: provoking weaknesses. He did the same against the Queen's Indian defence when he played his bishop to b5 to attract the move...c6.Now the e6 square is weakened.

15.Bf4gf5? 16.Bd6! Kasparov goes into a variation where black exchanges his light square bishop for the dark square bishop which then weakens e6 considerably.

16...Ba4 17.Ra4Qd6 18.Nh4!fe4 19.Nf5 -Big mission accomplished. On many occasions Kasparov expressed his fascination with having a knight on f5. 19...Qd7 20.Ne4Kh8 white his threatening Rf3 and Rg3.
21.Nc5 1-0  Brutal. Nunn is a strong GM and a good writer of many books but here he faced some really good preparation by Kasparov. Here are some key points:

1) The choice of variation.This line forces the opponent to be very accurate. Work of the highest calibre is called for.

2)The move ...Na6 and ...Nb4 meant that black was outnumbered on the king side.

3)The moves of Kasparov's dark square bishop were all decisive- Bg5 provoked ...f6,  then Bf4 targeted d6
and then Bd6 got rid of the light square bishop.

4)Getting the knight to f5 was the killer move.
I hope you enjoyed that demonstration of power. John