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Ever since the World played the enterprising move 10...Qe6 in the opening, Garry Kasparov has had a problem: Black's pieces have been far more active than White's. With this bold and radical move, 32 g3, the World Champion is addressing this issue. He is quite prepared to give up a pawn if it means that his bishop is once more connected with the other side of the board, and his rook comes into the game. Moreover, his king can also enter the fray - crucial in this phase of the game when there are so few pieces on the board.

The World should think very carefully before snapping off the pawn on g3 with 32...fxg3 33 fxg3 Bxg3. Winning a pawn would be very nice, but I would examine the consequences very carefully before doing so. For a moment Black would be distracted from his real aim in the endgame of pushing his PASSED PAWN on the b-file; and Garry would win time for advancing his passed h-pawn.

One capture might be alright, but I am not so sure about the second. Anyway, these are Black's options: 32...fxg3; or 32...f3, in both cases doing something about the threatened pawn on f4; and 32...b4, a more radical attempt, pushing the b-pawn but giving up a pawn.

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f3 to Kasparov's g3

With the move 32.g3 white wants to play Bxf4 next move. Exchanging bishops would then be bad, because the black bishop controls the square h8. So we have after 32.g3 two possibilities: 32....fxg3 and 32....f3. The move 32....fxg3 is bad, because it opens after 33.fxg3 from white the f-file. So we must play 32....f3.

fxg3 to Kasparov's g3

My recommendation for black's 32nd move is fxg3. The pawn on f4 has a very good position but black cannot keep this square under control anymore. The other choices as 32...f3, 32...Kf5 and 32...Nd4 are interesting because they keep the "f" file closed and white's rook inactive, though it seems that we are not making harder for white to develop his kingside pawn majority. With 32...fxg3 we are trading one more pawn and we are weakening white's pawn structure; the downside is that white's rook suddenly becomes very active. The most probable reply for white would be 33.fxg3-- since at 33.f4 black has 33...Kf5!-- when our king's access to the "h" pawn via f5 or f7 is forbidden. We can compensate for that by switching our king back to the queenside to provide support for the "b" pawn(s) while maintaining a B+N blockade for white's dangerous pawns: 33...b4, Kd5, Bd4 and Ne5.

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fxg3 to Kasparov's g3

I recommend the World plays the move 32...fxg3 (Pawn on f4 captures Pawn on g3)

With the move 32...fxg3, we meet the World Champion's threat to capture on f4. Black exchanges his potentially over-extended f-pawn for a valuable White kingside pawn, and limits White's options.

The dubious alternative 32...f3?! meets with 33.Rb1! b4 (Instead 33...Kf5 34.Bd2 Nd4 35.Rb4! wins for White) 34.g4! and White has established a dangerous duo of CONNECTED passed pawns, while placing Black's counterplay with the passed b-pawn under firm observation, for example 34...Kf7 (34...Kd5 35.h6 Kc4 36.Be3 b3 37.g5 Kc3 38.g6 b2 39.g7, is winning for White) 35.Bc1! Bc3 36.Kh2, and White has a clear advantage after 36...Ne5 37.Kg3, or 36...Be5+ 37.Kh3.

Therefore, I recommend 32...fxg3 for Black.

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