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At the height of the Spassky v Fischer 1972 match, a large-size electronic demo board cutting edgy technology at the time was in use on the premises of the Central Chess Club in Moscow.
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📘 34...Ne5?
Sergey Grigoriants missed a golden opportunity to defeat the world champion.
(34...Qg3!! 35.g×f3 Rd8 36.Qc1 Q×h3+ 37.Kg1 Q×f3 38.Kh2 Qh5+ -+
and Black is completely winning.
35.Rd2 Qf5 =/+
Sergey Grigoriants missed a golden opportunity to defeat the world champion.
(34...Qg3!! 35.g×f3 Rd8 36.Qc1 Q×h3+ 37.Kg1 Q×f3 38.Kh2 Qh5+ -+
and Black is completely winning.
35.Rd2 Qf5 =/+
📘 38...Ng5?
Missing another chance! He could have played 38...Ng1! (Now Black wins material or brings the White King into the mating net.) A)39.Rd2 Ne2+ 40.R×e2 Q×e2 -+
B)39.Qc6 Ne2+ 40.Kg4 g6!! 41.Q×a8 Kg7 42.g3 f5+ 43.Kh4 g5+ 44.Kh5 N×g3#.
Missing another chance! He could have played 38...Ng1! (Now Black wins material or brings the White King into the mating net.) A)39.Rd2 Ne2+ 40.R×e2 Q×e2 -+
B)39.Qc6 Ne2+ 40.Kg4 g6!! 41.Q×a8 Kg7 42.g3 f5+ 43.Kh4 g5+ 44.Kh5 N×g3#.
📘 24...Qg4?
Karjakin was very lucky that his opponent did not notice the double attack with 24...Qf6!-+.
Karjakin was very lucky that his opponent did not notice the double attack with 24...Qf6!-+.
📘 49.g6?
An interesting ending in which Fedoseev could have made a draw in an instructive way:
[49.Rd8! d2 50.Kg4 Rc8 51.R×d2 (51.Rd7 Rf8!-+)
51...K×d2 52.Kf5 Re8
(52...Ke3 53.K×e5 K×f3 54.g6 Kg4 55.g7 Kh5 56.b6=)
53.Ke4!! Kc3 54.g6 K×b3 55.f4=]
49...Rc6! -+
An interesting ending in which Fedoseev could have made a draw in an instructive way:
[49.Rd8! d2 50.Kg4 Rc8 51.R×d2 (51.Rd7 Rf8!-+)
51...K×d2 52.Kf5 Re8
(52...Ke3 53.K×e5 K×f3 54.g6 Kg4 55.g7 Kh5 56.b6=)
53.Ke4!! Kc3 54.g6 K×b3 55.f4=]
49...Rc6! -+
📕 18.Nh1!!
A fantastic move. The knight is doing nothing on g3, as it is barred from the e4-square. Therefore Nimzowitsch intends to reroute it to the g5-square via f2 and h3. Imagine for a second that the knight was already on g5. Then the white bishop's control of the c4-g8 diagonal suddenly has fangs: after Qh5! there would be the double threat of Qxh7 mate and Nf7+.
A fantastic move. The knight is doing nothing on g3, as it is barred from the e4-square. Therefore Nimzowitsch intends to reroute it to the g5-square via f2 and h3. Imagine for a second that the knight was already on g5. Then the white bishop's control of the c4-g8 diagonal suddenly has fangs: after Qh5! there would be the double threat of Qxh7 mate and Nf7+.
📕 19.Bxd6!
Congratulations if you understand why this is a good move - you have a deep sense of positional play. White gives up his strong bishop in order to prevent Black plugging the c-file with 19...Nc4.
19.Ne5? Nxe5 20.Bxe5 Nc4
19.Nd2 Nb6.
Congratulations if you understand why this is a good move - you have a deep sense of positional play. White gives up his strong bishop in order to prevent Black plugging the c-file with 19...Nc4.
19.Ne5? Nxe5 20.Bxe5 Nc4
19.Nd2 Nb6.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 215
C: c5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 91%
A: f4 – 1
👍 9%
B: Rh3
▫️ 0%
👥 11 people voted so far.
C: c5 – 10
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 91%
A: f4 – 1
👍 9%
B: Rh3
▫️ 0%
👥 11 people voted so far.
📕Unity Chess Multiple Choice 216
A: Qf1 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%
B: Rd2 – 4
👍👍👍 29%
C: Be2 – 1
👍 7%
👥 14 people voted so far.
A: Qf1 – 9
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 64%
B: Rd2 – 4
👍👍👍 29%
C: Be2 – 1
👍 7%
👥 14 people voted so far.
Hoogovens- Beverwijk, January 1961. Ivkov vs T van Scheltinga, Borislav Ivkov can tie for 1st-2nd places with Bent Larsen. The latter doesn't seem too concerned. Ivkov won!
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