Kasparov vs. the World — Games & analysis Every PGN game in the archive, with an in-page replay board.

Kasparov vs. the World (1 game)

The actual game, 21 June – 22 October 1999. White: Kasparov · Black: the World Team. 1–0 in 62 moves.

Daily World-Team analysis snapshots (19 games)

Annotated positions saved by the World Team on each day a new move was being chosen. Filenames encode the date (e.g. 0812a = August 12, take a).

Irina Krush's analysis series (ik001 – ik074) (78 games)

Annotations published by the World Team's lead analyst, 15-year-old IM Irina Krush. Every event-name describes the move under discussion.

Reference games (100 games)

The Barnet Chess Club's annotated game, plus a 99-game ChessBase dump of every prior Kasparov-with-the-Sicilian — the opening-prep databases the World Team was working from.

Engine analysis (kasloss) (0 games)

Output of Crafty 16.6 analysing the critical endgame position from the World vs. Kasparov game.

max threads set to 2

Crafty v16.6 (2 cpus)

White(1): hash=400M
hash table memory = 384M bytes.
White(1): hashp=20M
pawn hash table memory = 16M bytes.
White(1): st 99999
search time set to 99999.00.
White(1): setboard 4r2k/1p2q3/1bp2p1p/p2p1PpN/P2Pr1P1/1PQ1PR1P/4R3/5K2 w - - 0 48

       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
    8  |   |   |   |   | *R|   |   | *K|
       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
    7  |   | *P|   |   | *Q|   |   |   |
       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
    6  |   | *B| *P|   |   | *P|   | *P|
       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
    5  | *P|   |   | *P|   | P | *P| N |
       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
    4  | P |   |   | P | *R|   | P |   |
       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
    3  |   | P | Q |   | P | R |   | P |
       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
    2  |   |   |   |   | R |   |   |   |
       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
    1  |   |   |   |   |   | K |   |   |
       +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
         a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h

White(1): move
              clearing hash tables
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 1666:39 (1666:39)
              depth   time  score   variation (1)
starting thread 1
                5     0.14  -0.05   1. Rd2 Kg8 2. Qd3 Qd6 3. Rc2
                5->   0.28  -0.05   1. Rd2 Kg8 2. Qd3 Qd6 3. Rc2
                6     0.42  -0.19   1. Rd2 Kg8 2. Rd3 Bc7 3. Ng3 Bxg3 4.
                                    Rxg3
                6->   0.57  -0.19   1. Rd2 Kg8 2. Rd3 Bc7 3. Ng3 Bxg3 4.
                                    Rxg3
                7     0.78     --   1. Rd2
                7     0.87  -0.66   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxh3 5. Ke2 Rxb3
                7->   1.52  -0.66   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxh3 5. Ke2 Rxb3
                8     1.78  -0.71   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxh3 5. Kg2 Rxb3
                8->   2.56  -0.71   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxh3 5. Kg2 Rxb3
                9     3.16  -0.71   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxh3 5. Kg2 Rxb3 6. Rd1
                9->   5.68  -0.71   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxh3 5. Kg2 Rxb3 6. Rd1
               10     7.81  -0.67   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxh3 5. Nd7 Rxb3 6. Nxb6 Rxb6
                                    7. Ke2
               10->  12.13  -0.67   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxh3 5. Nd7 Rxb3 6. Nxb6 Rxb6
                                    7. Ke2
               11    15.41  -0.90   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxh3 5. Nd7 Rxb3 6. Ke2 Kg7
                                    7. Ne5
               11->  27.58  -0.90   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxh3 5. Nd7 Rxb3 6. Ke2 Kg7
                                    7. Ne5
               12    36.51  -1.10   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxb3 5. Nd7 Ba7 6. Ke2 Rb4
                                    7. Ke3 Rxa4
               12->   1:00  -1.10   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxb3 5. Nd7 Ba7 6. Ke2 Rb4
                                    7. Ke3 Rxa4
               13     1:21  -0.93   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxb3 5. Nd7 Ba7 6. Ke2 Rb4
                                    7. Ke3 Rxa4 8. Ne5
               13->   2:19  -0.93   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxb3 5. Nd7 Ba7 6. Ke2 Rb4
                                    7. Ke3 Rxa4 8. Ne5
               14     3:08  -1.18   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxb3 5. Nd7 Ba7 6. Ke2 Rb4
                                    7. Ke3 Rxa4 8. Ne5 Kg7
               14->   6:24  -1.18   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxb3 5. Nd7 Ba7 6. Ke2 Rb4
                                    7. Ke3 Rxa4 8. Ne5 Kg7
               15     8:01  -1.38   1. Rd2 Rxe3 2. Rxe3 Qxe3 3. Qxe3 Rxe3
                                    4. Nxf6 Rxb3 5. Nd7 Ba7 6. Kg2 Rb4
                                    7. f6 Bxd4 8. f7 Bg7 9. Rf2 Rxa4 10.
                                    f8=Q+ Bxf8 11. Rxf8+
               15    15:09  -1.16   1. Ng3 Bxd4 2. Qxd4 Rxd4 3. exd4 Qd7
                                    4. Rfe3 Rxe3 5. Rxe3 Qd6 6. Nh5 Qb4
                                    7. Re8+ Kh7 8. Nxf6+ Kg7 9. Nh5+ Kf7
                                    10. Re6 Qxd4 11. Rxh6
               15->  17:59  -1.16   1. Ng3 Bxd4 2. Qxd4 Rxd4 3. exd4 Qd7
                                    4. Rfe3 Rxe3 5. Rxe3 Qd6 6. Nh5 Qb4
                                    7. Re8+ Kh7 8. Nxf6+ Kg7 9. Nh5+ Kf7
                                    10. Re6 Qxd4 11. Rxh6
               16    22:50  -1.05   1. Ng3 Bxd4 2. Qxd4 Rxd4 3. exd4 Qd7
                                    4. Rfe3 Rxe3 5. Rxe3 c5 6. dxc5 Qc6
                                    7. Nh5 d4 8. Re7 d3 9. Nxf6 Qxf6 10.
                                    Rxb7
               16->  38:56  -1.05   1. Ng3 Bxd4 2. Qxd4 Rxd4 3. exd4 Qd7
                                    4. Rfe3 Rxe3 5. Rxe3 c5 6. dxc5 Qc6
                                    7. Nh5 d4 8. Re7 d3 9. Nxf6 Qxf6 10.
                                    Rxb7
               17    46:52  -1.32   1. Ng3 Bxd4 2. Qxd4 Rxd4 3. exd4 Qd7
                                    4. Rfe3 Rxe3 5. Rxe3 Qd6 6. Nh5 Qb4
                                    7. Re8+ Kh7 8. Nxf6+ Kg7 9. Nh5+ Kf7
                                    10. Rb8 Ke7 11. Kg2 Qxd4 12. Rxb7+