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🔸 Alexander Kotov
🔸 Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Chess Author
♦️ Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet chess champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific writer on the subject of chess.
▪️ Full name: Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov
▪️ Country: Soviet Union
▪️ Born: 12 August 1913
Tula, Russian Empire
▪️ Died: 8 January 1981 (aged 67)
Moscow, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ Peak rating: 2510 (July 1971)
♦️Kotov developed a sharp style, was definitely not afraid of complications on the chessboard, and willingly entered into them against even the greatest of opponents. He favoured the closed openings with White, and was a terror with the Sicilian Defence as Black.
♦️ In Kotov's 1971 book Think Like a Grandmaster, he described a situation when a player thinks very hard for a long time in a complicated position but does not find a clear path, then, running low on time, quickly makes a poor move, often a blunder.
♦️ A memorable game by Kotov against Tigran Petrosian in USSR Championship 1949. Petrosian, later World Champion, loses a game he would never forget, falling into an opening trap and resigning in only 13 moves.👇🏼
🔴 Alexander Kotov vs Tigran Petrosian
🔴 USSR Championship (1949), Moscow URS, rd 1, Oct-17
🔴 Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange. Positional Variation (D35)
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🔸 Alexander Kotov
🔸 Soviet Chess Grandmaster and Chess Author
♦️ Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov was a Soviet chess grandmaster and author. He was a Soviet chess champion, a two-time world title Candidate, and a prolific writer on the subject of chess.
▪️ Full name: Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov
▪️ Country: Soviet Union
▪️ Born: 12 August 1913
Tula, Russian Empire
▪️ Died: 8 January 1981 (aged 67)
Moscow, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster
▪️ Peak rating: 2510 (July 1971)
♦️Kotov developed a sharp style, was definitely not afraid of complications on the chessboard, and willingly entered into them against even the greatest of opponents. He favoured the closed openings with White, and was a terror with the Sicilian Defence as Black.
♦️ In Kotov's 1971 book Think Like a Grandmaster, he described a situation when a player thinks very hard for a long time in a complicated position but does not find a clear path, then, running low on time, quickly makes a poor move, often a blunder.
♦️ A memorable game by Kotov against Tigran Petrosian in USSR Championship 1949. Petrosian, later World Champion, loses a game he would never forget, falling into an opening trap and resigning in only 13 moves.👇🏼
🔴 Alexander Kotov vs Tigran Petrosian
🔴 USSR Championship (1949), Moscow URS, rd 1, Oct-17
🔴 Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange. Positional Variation (D35)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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📘 15.N×c6!
Carlsen is trying to open up the position because of his two-bishop advantage.
15...b×c6 16.c4 0-0 17.c×d5 c×d5 18.b4
Carlsen is trying to open up the position because of his two-bishop advantage.
15...b×c6 16.c4 0-0 17.c×d5 c×d5 18.b4
📘 17...Be6!
Black has sacrificed the d6-pawn in order to complete his development and put pressure on c2-pawn.
18.Q×d6 a5 19.Qb6 Rfc8 20.Rfc1 Qe7 21.Qe3 Rc5 22.Bf1 Rac8
Black has sacrificed the d6-pawn in order to complete his development and put pressure on c2-pawn.
18.Q×d6 a5 19.Qb6 Rfc8 20.Rfc1 Qe7 21.Qe3 Rc5 22.Bf1 Rac8
📘 42...N×f2?
Topalov has missed a golden opportunity to win the game.
42...Ng4! 43.f3 Qb8! -+
43.K×f2 Ne4+ 44.Ke2 c3+ 45.Ke1 Qb1 46.Bg2 Qc2 47.B×e4+ d×e4 48.Kf1 Kg6 49.Kg1 Kh7 =
Topalov has missed a golden opportunity to win the game.
42...Ng4! 43.f3 Qb8! -+
43.K×f2 Ne4+ 44.Ke2 c3+ 45.Ke1 Qb1 46.Bg2 Qc2 47.B×e4+ d×e4 48.Kf1 Kg6 49.Kg1 Kh7 =
📘 64... Kc5?
A miscalculation.
Ding Liren could have won the game with a problematic move:
64... a6! 65. f5 Ka3 66. Kd3 Bb4 67. Kc4 Be7 68. b4 Bxb4 69. f6 Ka4 70. Kd4 Kb5 71. Kd3 a5 72. Ke3 Ka4 73. Kd3 Ka3 74. Kc4 Kxa2 75.f7 Ka3 76. Kb5 a4 77. Kc4 Bf8-+.
65. Ke5! Kc6
65... a6 66. f5 Kb4
66. f5 Bb4 67. Ke6 Ba3 68. f6 a5 69. Kf7 Kd7 ½-½
A miscalculation.
Ding Liren could have won the game with a problematic move:
64... a6! 65. f5 Ka3 66. Kd3 Bb4 67. Kc4 Be7 68. b4 Bxb4 69. f6 Ka4 70. Kd4 Kb5 71. Kd3 a5 72. Ke3 Ka4 73. Kd3 Ka3 74. Kc4 Kxa2 75.f7 Ka3 76. Kb5 a4 77. Kc4 Bf8-+.
65. Ke5! Kc6
65... a6 66. f5 Kb4
66. f5 Bb4 67. Ke6 Ba3 68. f6 a5 69. Kf7 Kd7 ½-½
📕24...Qe8!
You can only admire Nimzowitsch's refined use of the back rank, a skill he shares with Karpov. The queen heads for c8 where she will support the freeing move ...f7-f5. This precipitates Schlechter into carrying out his pawn advance before he is completely ready:
25.h4 Qc8! 26.Bd3 Bg4 27.Qg2 gxh4=/+
You can only admire Nimzowitsch's refined use of the back rank, a skill he shares with Karpov. The queen heads for c8 where she will support the freeing move ...f7-f5. This precipitates Schlechter into carrying out his pawn advance before he is completely ready:
25.h4 Qc8! 26.Bd3 Bg4 27.Qg2 gxh4=/+