Garry Kasparov shows championship form against grandmaster Bareev at Tilburg. White moves and wins.

The 15th annual tournament in Tilburg, the Netherlands, was one of the highpoints of 1991, a doozie, even by its standards. Both the Super Ks were there, as were Nigel Short and Jan Timman, for the World Championship challenge.

Eight grandmasters averaged a stratospheric 2666 in FIDE ratings, 16 points beyond FIDE’s strongest category for an international tournament. The only player under 2600 was last year’s Tilburg winner, U.S. Champion Gata Kamsky, at 2595.

Kasparov won with 10 of 14 points available in the double round-robin. Short was second with 8 1/2, beating Kamsky in the last round. Viswanathan Anand of India took third, beating Kasparov for one of his eight points.

Karpov had 7 1/2, and Kamsky managed an even score, finishing ahead of Timman, 6 1/2; Korchnoi, 5 1/2; and Bareev, 3.

Kamsky, only 17, can play with anyone in the world, as he demonstrated by defeating Karpov and drawing both games with Kasparov. At the U.S. Championship in August, he generated less than awe among the competitors but mowed them down, losing only one game on his way to that title.

We couldn’t resist this tactical barnburner between Kasparov and Anand, the 21-year-old that has put India back on the chess map:

Anand — Kasparov

1.e4 c5, 2.Nf3 d6, 3.d4 cxd4, 4.Nxd4 Nf6, 5.Nc3 a6, 6.f4 e6, 7.Bd3 Nbd7, 8.0-0 Qb6, 9.Be3 Qxb2, 10.Ndb5 axb5, 11.Nxb5 Ra5, 12.Rb1 Rxb5, 13.Rxb2 Rxb2, 14.Qa1 Rb6, 15.Bxb6 Nxb6, 16.Qc3 Be7, 17.Rb1 Nfd7, 18.Qxg7 Bf6, 19.Qh6 Ke7, 20.Bb5 Rg8, 21.Rd1 e5, 22.f5 Nc5, 23.Rxd6 Bg5, 24.Qxh7 Nxe4, 25.Rxb6 Rd8, 26.Bd3 Be3+ 27.Kf1 Bxb6, 28.Bxe4 Rd4, 29.c3 and the World Champion resigned!

Solution: 1.a6! b6, 2.Rxe7! Qxe7, 3.Qxc6+ Kb8, 4.Bg3+ Qc7, 5.Bxc7+ Kc8, 6.Bg3 Checkmate. In the actual game, Bareev saw the inevitable and resigned after 2.Rxe7! The difference between us and the World Champion is we saw that White was ahead by a bishop against Black’s extra pawn; Kasparov saw a way to break down Black’s defenses.