180 degree turn Game-3

Ok this is the third game on the following topic '180 degree turn'
Now this will be the most special game in this series
as this game is played between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in the 1984/85 World Championship.



At the cost of the exchange White has created a double edged position in which, after narrowly avoiding defeat , he managed to draw. The counterblow with the h-pawn also occurs , and in the Ruy Lopez it has recently become quite common

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