The Most Important Opening Novelties From The Modern World Championships

3. Kasparov – Anand (1995 game 8) – 9. … g5

The most recent game on this list. Anands novelty 9. … g5 was so strong that it was quickly adopted by many GM’s and club players alike. The old move had been to play g6, allowed white to play f4. By playing g5 in conjunction of castling queen side you take away whites ability to play f4. This plan was so strong in fact that Kasparov didn’t play the Scotch again for the remainder of the match instead choosing to play the Ruy Lopez.

To date the line with 9. … g5 has been played in 188 games and 31 GM games scoring 37.2% for white in the big database.

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