Kasparov, Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part II, Everyman Chess, 2013. Timman also supports this view in his excellent 2019 book The Longest Game, devoted to the Kasparov–Karpov encounters. The game analysis presents several continuations that could have preserved the balance. Instead, the immediate 53.Qa7 would have secured a winning position. All this evidence confirms that the position at the adjournment was not necessarily lost, and that with precise play, Black could have held.