Adams v Topalov

Adams played brilliantly here. He is not called Spider for nothing and after his disastrous showing in the world championship before Christmas in San Luis it is good to see him back to his old self. The GMs are creaming themselves about 25. h3!! Maybe an English world champion if he can do this to the reigning FIDE one. Pervious times that an English master has beaten a reigning world champion.

Lasker vs Blackburne, 1895
Lasker vs Blackburne, 1899
J Penrose vs Tal, 1960
Karpov vs Miles, 1980
Short vs Kasparov, 1986
Short vs Kasparov, 1993
Adams vs Karpov, 1994
Adams vs Kramnik, 2004
Adams vs Kramnik, 2005

This game is arguably up there with the late, great Tony Miles' 1..a6 effort against Karpov who then was formidable and is easily the most bizarre opening to beat a reigning WC.

Adams,Mi (2707) - Topalov,V (2801) [B85]
Corus A Wijk aan Zee NED (2), 15.01.2006

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e6 7. O-O Be7 8. a4 Nc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. f4 Qc7 11. Kh1 Re8 12. Bf3 Bf8 13. Qd2 Na5 14. b3 Rb8 15. Rad1 Nc6 16. Bf2 Nd7 17. Bg3 Nxd4 18. Qxd4 b5 19. axb5 axb5 20. b4 g6 21. e5 d5 22. f5 gxf5 23. Nxd5 Qc4 24. Qd2 h6 25. h3 exd5 26. Bxd5 Qxb4 27. c3 Qc5 28. Rxf5 Re6 29. Rxf7 Nb6 30. Rdf1 Nxd5 31. Rxf8+ Qxf8 32. Rxf8+ Kxf8 33. Qxd5 Ke8 34. Bh4 Bd7 35. Bf6 b4 36. Qe4 Bc8 37. cxb4 Rb7 38. Qg6+ Kd7 39. Qxh6 Kc7 40. Qf4 Kb8 41. h4 Rc7 42. h5 1-0

Originally posted by micarr
Adams played brilliantly here. He is not called Spider for nothing and after his disastrous showing in the world championship before Christmas in San Luis it is good to see him back to his old self. The GMs are creaming themselves about 25. h3!! Maybe an English world champion if he can do this to the reigning FIDE one. Pervious times that an English master h ...[text shortened]... 35. Bf6 b4 36. Qe4 Bc8 37. cxb4 Rb7 38. Qg6+ Kd7 39. Qxh6 Kc7 40. Qf4 Kb8 41. h4 Rc7 42. h5 1-0

I have ChessBaseLight. Can someone tell me how to enter the game notation into the program so I can play it out? Thanks.

Adams has a positive record v Topalov after 40-odd games.

1. copy it into a text file
2. rename the file to .pgn
3. use a pgn reader like ChessBase to view the game

Unfortunately, the above game is not in proper notation. 🙁

Found the game here:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1385770

Originally posted by exigentsky
Unfortunately, the above game is not in proper notation. 🙁

Originally posted by exigentsky
Unfortunately, the above game is not in proper notation. 🙁

Originally posted by Oddjob291
Define "proper notation" - full English notation or something else?!