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OUT TH UHOGrandmaster Raymond Keene multiple tournament winner and former

British Champion is the worlds most prolific chess writer with more than100 books to his credit Considered one of the strongest players in the worldand one of the top theoreticians Keene is well known for his work organizingworld championships his many bestselling chess titles and for his coauthorship with World Champion Garry Kasparov and Eric Schiller on Batsford ChessOpenings the alltime bestselling reference work on chess openings

Keene is a former British champion and medal winner in the chess Olympiad and was awarded the title Officer of the British Empire by Queen Eliza

beth II for his services to chess He is the chess correspondent for the Spectator London (since 1977), and Thames Television (since 1986), and writes theLondon Times daily chess column Keenes new book for Cardoza PublishingCardoza's Complete Book of Beginning Chess is due out in Fall 1998.

Eric Schiller widely considered one of the worlds foremost chess analysts writers and teachers is internationally recognized for his definitive workson openings He is the author of 80 chess books including Cardoza Publishingsdefinitive series on openings World Champion Openin Standard Chess Open

ings and Unorthodox Chess Openin- exhaustive opening ibrary of morethan 1700 pages Hes also the author of Encyclopedia of Chess Wisdom, GambitOpening Rertoire for White Gambit Opening Repertoire for Black Complete De

fense to King Pawn Openin Complete Dnse to Queen Pawn Openin and multiple other chess titles for Cardoza Pubishing (For listings of all chess titlespublished by Cardoza Publishing go online to wwwcardozapubcom

Eric Schiller is a National and Life Master an International Arbiter ofFIDE and the official trainer for many of Americas top young players He

has also presided over world championship matches dating back to 1983

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. NTRODUCTON 11

2. HAT S A COMBNATION? 13

3. PAUL MORPHY 14

Morphy vs. E. Morphy, New Orleans,1849 15Paulsen vs. Morphy, New York City, 1857 16Morphy vs. Amateur, New Orleans, 1858 18Morphy vs. Anderssen, Paris, 1858 20Morphy vs. Duke of Brunswick Count Isouard, Paris, 1858 23

Morphy vs. Loewenthal, London, 1859 24Find the Win! 26[1] De Riviere vs. Morphy, Paris, 1863 26[2] Marache vs. Morphy, USA 1857 26[3 Morphy vs. De Rivier, Paris 1858 27

4] Morphy vs. Mongredien, Paris, 1859 27

4.ILHLM STNTZ 28(7) Steinitz vs. Mongredien, London, 1862 29

(8) Dubois vs. Steinitz, London, 1862 29

(9) Steinitz vs. Mongredien, London, 1863 35

(10) Zukertort vs. Steinitz, WorldChampionship Match, 1886 35(11) Steinitz vs. Chigorin, WordChampionship Matc, 1892 38( 12) Steinitz vs. Von Bardeleben, Hastings, 1895 40

Find the Win! 42

[5] Steinitz vs. Scott, Dundee, 1867 42[6] Steinitz vs. Backburne, London 1876 42[7] Steinitz vs. Chigorin, World Championship Match, avana, 1892 43[8 Reiner vs. Steinitz, Vienna, 1860 43



WORLD CHAMPION COMBINATIONS

. MANUL LASKR

(13) Lasker vs Bauer, Amserdam, 1889(14) isbury vs Lasker, Sain eersburg, 1896(1) orges vs Lasker, Nuremberg, 1896(16) Kan vs Lasker, Moscow, 193(17) Cigorin vs Lasker, London,1899(18) Lee vs Lasker, London, 1899Fid the Wi!9 Lasker vs Seiniz, Word Campionsip, 189610Janowski vs Lasker, aris, 1909

11 Lasker vs irc, Moscow, 19312 Lasker vs ForbesRoberson, Ceenam, 1898

6. JOSUL CAPABNCA

(19) Ri vs Capabanca, Berin, 1928(20) Capabanca vs Havasi, Budapes, 1928(21) Aaorsev vs Capabanca, Moscow, 193(22) Marsa vs Capabanca, New York, 1931

(23) Capabanca vs Souza Campos, Sao auo, 1927(24) Capabanca vs Seiner, Los Angees, 1933Fid the Wi![13 Capabanca vs Fonaroff, New York, 190414 Capabanca vs Mieses, Berin, 19311 Capabanca vs Yaes, Barceona, 192916 Capabanca vs Lasker, Berin Speed Game, 1914

7. ALXANDR ALKHIN

(2) Ri vs Aekine, BadenBaden, 192(26) Aekine vs Resevsky, Kemeri, 1937(27) Aekine vs Book, Margae, 1938(28) Aekine vs Kieninger, oand, 1941(29) Aekine vs Capabanca, AVRO, 1938(30) Aekine vs Fed, Tarnopo, 1916Fid the Wi![17 Aekine vs Euwe, Word Campionsip, 193718 Aekine vs Bogoubow, Warsaw, 1941[19] Aekine vs Freeman, USA, 192420 Aekine vs Opocensky, aris, 192

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(31) Euwe vs Maroczy, Amserdam (Mac), 1921(32) Euwe vs Aekine, Zuric, 1934(33) Geer vs Euwe, Zuric Candidaes, 193

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(34) Kroone s Euwe, Amsterdm, 1923 91(35) Euwe s Weenink, Amsterdm, 1923 92

(36) Euwe s Toms, Hstings, 1934 95Find the Win! 97[21] Euwe s egei, Zuric, 1934 97[22] Euwe s ester, Dubronik, 195 97[23] Euwe s Rossetto, Buenos Aires, 1947 98[24] rrsc s Euwe, Amsterdm, 1923 98

9. MIKHAIL BOINNIK 99

(37) Botinnik s Cbnc, Aro, 1938 99(38) Botinnik s ortisc, Monte Cro, 968 12(39) Botinnik s Trtkower, ottingm, 1936 15(4) Botinnik s Btuye, Leningrd Cmpionsi, 193 17(4 1) Yurgis s Botinnik, Leningrd, 1931 19(42) Botinnik s desky, Monte Cro, 1968 111Find the Win! 114[25] Botinnik s Keres, Word Cmionsi, Te Hgue, 1948 114

[26] Stoberg s Botinnik, Soiet Cmionsi, 194 114[27] Gogidze s Botinnik, Moscow, 1935 115[28] Liient s Botinnik, Moscow, 1941 115

10. V ASSILY SMYSLOV 116

(43) Smyso s Gereben, Moscow s Budest, 1949 1 16(44) Botinnik s Smyso, Word Cmionsi, 1954 119(45) Smyso s Botinnik, Word Cmionsi, Moscow, 1954 121

(46) Geer s Smyso, Mocow SSR, 1965 123(47) Smyso s Liberzon, Moscow, 1969 125(48) mnn s Smyso, Moscow, 1971 128Find the Win! 13[29] Smyso s Hbner, Cndidtes' Mtc, 1983 13[3] Smyso s Donner, Hn, 1966 13[31] Smyso s For, Soiet Cmionsi, 1949 131[32] Smyslo s Kottnuer, Moscow, 1948 131

11. MIKHAIL TAL 132

(49) T s Zeid, Rig Soiet ti, 952 132(5) Gurgenidze s T, Moscow, 1957 134(51) T s ougyesky, Tbiisi, 1959 136(52) ougyesky s T, Moscow, 1969 138(53) Torbergsson s T, Reykjik, 1964 41(54) Botteri s T, Euroen Tem Cmionsi, 1973 143Find the Win! 145



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[33] Tukmakov vs. Tal, Soviet Championship, 1969 145[34] Tal vs. Malich, Varna, 1958 145[35] Tal vs. Parma, Bled, 1961 146[36 Tal vs. Solomis, Soviet Union, 197 146

2. TIGRAN PTROSIAN 147

(55) Averbakh vs. Petrosian, Riga, 1958 147(56) Filip vs. Petrosian, Yerevan, 1965 149(57) Petrosian vs. Larsen, Copenhagen, 196 151(58) Larsen vs. Petrosian, Santa Monica, 1966 152

(59) Petrosian vs. Vaitonis, Saltsjobaden Inerzonal, 1952 154(6) Petrosian vs. Pachman, Bled, 1961 156Fnd the Wn! 59[37] Petrosian vs. Spassky, World Championship, 1966 159[38] Petrosian vs. Ivkov, USSR vs. Yugosavia, 1979 159[39] Petrosian vs. Moldagaiyev, Sovie Union, 1969 16[4 Petrosian vs. Stein, Soviet Union, 1961 16

13. BORIS SPASS 161(6 1) Spassky vs. Bronstein, Soviet Championship, 196 161(62) Larsen vs. Spassky, Belgrade, 197 164(63) Spassky vs. Ciric, Amsterdam, 197 165(64) Barda vs. Spassky, Buchares, 1953 168(65) Spassky vs. Taimanov, Sovie Championship, 1955 171(66) Spassky vs. Bilek, Moscow, 1967 173Fnd the Wn! 75

[41] Spassky vs. Pfeger, Munich, 1979 175[42] Spassky vs. Smyslov, Bucharest, 1953 175[ 43] Spassky vs. A verkin, Soviet Union, 1973 176[44] Spassky vs. Darga, Varna Olympiad, 1962 176

4. ROBRT FISCHR 177

(67) Byrne vs. Fischer, US Championship, NY, 1963 177(68) Fischer vs. Benko, United States Championship, 1963 179(69) Fischer vs. Spassky, Sveti Sefan (match), 1992 18(7) Saidy vs. Fischer, New York, 1965 182(71) Fischer vs. Bolbochan, Stockholm Interzona, 1962 183(72) Kramer vs. Fischer, United Staes Championship, 1957 186Fnd the Wn! 88[45] Fischer vs. Dely, Skopje, 1967 188[46] Fischer vs. Miagmasuren, Sousse Interzona, 1967 188[47] Bisguier vs. Fischer, New York, 196 189[48] Cardoso vs. Fischer, New York (match), 1957 189




15. ANATOLY KARPOV 190

(73) Karpov vs. Korchnoi, Moscow, 1974 190(74) Timman vs. Karpov, Montrea, 1979 193(75) Karpov vs. Saov, Linares, 1993 195(76) Karpov vs. Georgiev, Tiurg, 1994 197(77) Karpov vs Coo, Skopje Oympiad, 1972 198(78) Karpov vs. Nunn, Wk aan Zee, 1993 202Find the win! 29[49] Karpov vs. Aburt, Mata Oympiad, 1980 209[50] Karpov vs. Ofiesh, Simutaneous Exhibition, 199 209[51] Karpov vs. Csom, Bad Lauterberg, 1977 2 10

[52] Tarjan vs. Karpov, Skopje, 1976 210

16. GARRY KASPAROV 211

(79) Kasparov vs. Gavrikov, Soviet Championship, 1981 211(80) Kasparov vs. Yusupov, Soviet Championship, 1981 214(81) Kasparov vs. Anand, CA Word Championship, 1995 217(82) Kasparov vs. Mephisto, Bindfod Simutaneous, 1985 220(83) Kasparov vs. Seirawan, Amsterdam, 1996 222

(84) Kasparov vs. Nikoic, Linares, 1997 225Find the win! 227[53] Kasparov vs. Browne, Banja Luka, 1979 227[54] Kasparov vs Martinovic, Baku, 1980 227[55] Kasparov vs. Karpov, Word Championship, 1985 228[56] Kasparov vs. Larso, Exhibition Internet, 1995 228

17. NSWERS TO THE PROBLEMS 229

18. RECOMMENDD READING 258

19. NDEX OF GAMES AND EXRCISES 259



1 . I NTRODUCTION

Te combnaton s te pnnace of cess ar a creave fantasy

tat nvoves bod sacrfces uncompromsngy payed w an advantage ganed as a resut. Combnatons brng cess players a eadyadrenane rus and are te prde and joy of every fan of te RoyaGame. Ts book sows you e art of combnaon n te ands ofte very best payers of a tme e Word Campons.

Combnatons are part of most great games of cess but areaso found n battes tat are oterwse unnterestng. Tey are foundn decsve vctores but aso appear n drawn games and tose

tat are ost troug subsequent errors . It s ard o vst a tournament and not see exampes of combnatve pay. One of te earestgoas of any asprng cesspayer s to earn to spo and executecombnatons.

Tere s a wdespread noton tat te facuty of devsng combnatons n cess cannot be acqured but depends rater on an n-born power of cacuaton and magnaton. very experenced

payer knows owever tat ts genera opnon s wrong and tatmost combnatons ndeed practcay al of tem are cooked upby recang known eemens suc as e famous bsop sacrfceon or 7 wc w not gve te advanced payer muc to tnkabout. Tat te power of combnaton can be developed by studyreay seems very natura f you tnk about bot of ts componentsseparaey. You can earn to perform te necessary menta gymnas-tcs of cacuaton. As for te magnaton wc furnses te nec

essary deas and surprses for te combnaton psycologsts camtat t cannot offer anytng absoutey new but contentng tsefwt combnng famar eements can be deveoped by ncreasngknowedge of suc eements.

In order to brng te ar of e combnaton nto your own gamesyou w need to study te nstructve exampes found trougout



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cess terature. Te Word Campons are tose payers wo avecmbed te gest peaks of cess ave used combnatons reguary trougout ter careers. In ts book we w examne te

best and most engtenng exampes of ter cra.Eac of te Word Campons (we w ncude Amercan au

Morpy as we as te 3 offca" campons) as a unque styeand te combnatons wc tey create come n many favors . FromMorpy to Kasparov te great payers ave aunced combnatonsaganst opponents rangng from cdren to sopstcated computers. Usng te patterns tey ave studed tey create fres and

brant gems at te cessboard. If you too study te casscs youfnd yoursef composng smar masterpeces n your own battes .



2. WHT IS A

COMBINATION?

It may come as a surprse tat ts common term combination,as no agreed upon defnton n cess. very cess payer as tevague noton tat a combnaton s a sequence of moves nvovnga successfu sacrfce were te enemy s doomed to suffer somedamage eter materay or postonay. If we defne te term tootgty ten we may excude many worty exampes of cess artstry. At te same tme f we aow any sacrfce to count as a combnaton we w be openng te doors so wde tat te onor ofbeng dubbed a fne combnaton" w be dmnsed.

Rater tan provde a tecnca defnton we w et te exampes of combnatons as payed by te Word Campons engten us . To be sure a of te combnatons nvove sacrfces aeave te opponent wt mted optons and a wnd up brngngsome tangbe advantage to ter creator. But wat sort of advan

tage s requred to justfy te award? As Dr. George Stener wrote nFiel of Force n te New Yorker back n 972 Suc key conceptsas advantage and sound sacrfce are far too ndetermnate fartoo subjectve and storcay fud to be rgorousy defned andformazed."

We agree wt Dr. Stener and note furter tat a sacrfce ssound" ony after exaustve nvestgaton wc oen takes paceover decades. owerfu computers can now be used to ceck teaccuracy of combnatons and can often fnd touger defenses oroutrgt refutatons but n our opnon ts does not essen teartstc sportng or nstructona vaue of te game.

Indeed you w fnd n our coecton some exampes wereater researc found faws n te gems but you w we are surefnd te combnatons artstcay satsfyng and nstructve n anyevent. As for te sportng vaue we a wn s a wn after a!



3. PAUL MORPHY

Pu Morphy (USA), Unoffici Word Chmpion (18571859)

Pau Morpy was te greatest payer of s tme and atouge s not among te offcay recognzed Word Campons t sony because te tte dd not exst at te tme. Te New Oreansnatve ved from 837 unt 884 and s bref cess career asoutved m by over a century.

Morpy's rse s peraps te most meteorc n cess story.Wen e went to urope n 858 e was not consdered a treat tote great payers of s day suc as oward Staunton and AdopAnderssen. By te end of te year e ad bown away Anderssenand frgtened off Staunton. e ceary demonstrated s domnaton of te game and ten as Bobby Fscer woud do over a century ater e smpy stopped payng.

Morpy s remembered especay for s brant wns but nfact s games were not of te gest quaty. Defensve tecnquewas terrbe n te md9 century and tere was a strong f un

wrtten obgaton to accept any sacrfce trown one's way.One must keep n mnd owever tat cess teory was st nts eary stages. Morpy was aead of s tme n s understandngof postona factors and s strateges were more n keepng wtte demands of te poston tan was usua at te tme. Morpyunderstood tat tere were mportant genera prncpes wc adto be foowed f success was to come naturaly at te board.

e reazed tat contro of te center was a factor of majormportance n te game. Morpy's openngs concentrated on tedeveopment of forces and te creaton of open nes for attack.Wt tose goas aceved opportuntes for combnatons woudpresent temseves .

So we we admre te stunnng acevements of s best knowngames we must keep n mnd tat s success was due n arge part



PAL MORPHY

o he fac ha hs apprecaon of he game and accal prowesswere so much greaer han ha of hs conemporares. Morphddn' need o dg deep no hs accal arsenal. Neverheless he

managed o whp up comnaonal fnshes ha were ver mpres-sve o chess fans of hs me and reman eneranng even oda.Le' s sar wh a couple of examples where hs opponens func-

oned as punchng ags.

( 1) MHY E. MHYNew reans, 1849

l .e4 e5; 2 .N Nc6; 3.Bc4 Bc5; 4.c3 d6; 5.00 Nf6; 6.d4 exd4?!Ths s a classc example of a premaure capure n he cener. Whewll oan an deal pawn cener and Back has no compensaon.7 .cxd4 Bb6; 8.h3. A useful move keepng Black from placng pres-sure on he Whe cener wh . . .Bg4. 8 .. .h6. Black reasons ha fWhe could ake me ou" for h3 he can do he same for ...h6.8 . . .0-0 would have een safer. 9.Nc3 00; 1 0.Be3 Re. Black seekscounerpla on he open fle u hs leaves weak.

11.d5 Bxe3. Black fals o apprecae he power of he shop ac4. 12.dxc6! Bb6. The shop mus rerea or Black wll fnd hm-self a pece down! 13.e5. The pon of hs move s o weaken hecoverage of e5 Black who now conrols he square. nce hepawn capures he conrol s lessened and he square s onl sup-pored a rook. 13 ...dxe5; 14.Qb3 7.

Morph now uses a comnaon o explo he powerful pn on. 15.B+! Rx. Declnng he sacrfce would also have los.5 . . .8; 6.Nh4 g5; 7.Ng6+ Kg7; 8.Nxe7 Qxe7; 9.Bd5 Nxd5;



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20 .Nxd5 Q; 2 .Nx6 x6; 22.Qx+ x; 23.Rfc nd Blck sused! 5 . . .K; 6.Rfd ! nd We wns for exmple: 6 . . .dxc3; 7.cx7 R8; 8.xc8Q Qxc8; 19 .Qc3. 16.Nxe5 Qe8; 17.cxb7. Te

pn s eernl nd Blck s los. 17 ...Bxb7; 18.Rael Ba6. Ts wnse rook f u rdly mers. 19.Ng6! Qd8; 20.Re7! Tefnl exploon of e pn. ac resigned.

(2 ) PAULSEN · MOHYNew Yor City, 1857

As pulc relons effor Morpy's s gme of s Fnls

Mc w Lous Pulsen from New York 857 could rdly veeen eer. In s very frs serous ournmen Morpy no onlygned op pre u defeed s neres rvl Europen Msery e score of fve wns wo drws nd only one loss ncludnge followng rlln queen scrfce. A gme plyed n suc cr-cumsnces would ve een que suffcen o convnce e cessfrerny of s dy Morpy's opponens were fed o persfrom sunnng comnons .

Lsker owever vewng Morpy's cevemens from moredsn nd oecve sndpon rued s success o e scen-fc pplcon of logcl prncples nd s vcores o grduldevelopmen of forces wc crused s opponen w cumul-ve effec. Te comnve elemen would rse nurlly from ssuperor demonsron of cess generlsp ws no n unmeddemonc force ursng wldly no flme every me Morpy' s nd

reced ou o ouc pece.l .e4 e5; 2 .N Nc6; 3.Nc3 Nf6; 4.Bb5 Bc5. Flud developmenypcl of Morpy u e symmercl 4 . . .B4 s more relle.

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6.Nxe5. Inroducng smple excngng comnon knowns e fork rck" e.g. 6 . . .Nxe5; 7 .d4. We snds eer. 6 Re8;7.Nxc. No d snce mprs Blck's queensde pwn sruc-

ure u e mos ncsve course s 7 .N Nxe4; 8 .d4 Nxc3; 9 .xc3followed y d4d5.

7 .. .dxc6; 8.Bc4. Superor s 8 .Be2 for Blck now s e opporuny of nroducng powerful ck w 8 . . .Ng4. 8 b5?! Ofcourse Morpy does no fll for our old frend 8 . . .Nxe4?; 9.Nxe4Rxe4; .Bx£+ nd . Q+. 9.Be2 Nxe4; 10.Nxe4 Rxe4; ll.B.Here Pulsen sould ve red .c3 wle s kng sop defended

d3. ll . Re6.

12.c3? Te less mous 2.d3 s preferle. 12 Qd3! To

modern plyer seems only nurl o occupy s key squresmulneously msrngng We's developmen u o Pulsene move mus ve come s someng of revelon. Ineres-ngly We sll s cnces for successful ressnce even fers odylow commen on e conceled resources of e cessord.

13.b4 Bb6; 14.a4! bxa4; 15.xa4. Te counerde emergesu Pulsen mplemens n fuly fson snce e underes

mes e comnve poenl of Blck's poson. 15 Bd7;16.Ra2? Ponless. W 6.Q6 We cn once repr muc ofe dmge.

16 ...Rae8; 17 .Qa6. We dou f Pulsen or nyone else presen e Congress d e slges nklng of e serng responseMorpy d plnned.



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17. . . Te mllon dollr pulc relons move. 18.Rg6+; 19.hl Bh3. Te comnve process rses que nurllyfrom Blck's superor effecve nd concenred developmen.

20.Rdl. Or 20.Rg Bg2+; 2.Rxg2 Re+. 20 .. .Bg2+; 21.KglB+; 22.Kfl Bg2+. Mssng e more speedy 22 . . . Rg2 . (2 3 .d4Rx2 ! ) 23. Qd3 Rx+; 24 .Kg Rg2+ followed y . . .Rg# Sen.

23.Kgl Bh3+. Qucker s 23 . . .Be4+; 24. B; 25 .Qe2 B3+; 26 .Ke Rg # Mrocy.

24.hl B; 25.Qfl Bxfl; 26.Rfl Re2; 27.Ral Rh6; 28.d4Be3. In mny wys n undsngused gme o efore nd fere scrfce u Morpy's splendd concepon on move 7 re-deems ll. 0-1 .

(3 ) MOHY · MATEURNew Oreans, 1858Morpy ws prculrly devsng gns meur plyers

wc sould no come s ny surprse. Sooner or ler less exper-enced plyers end o ply posonlly unsound move nd ene mser cn explo o wn quckly. In e followng gmee meur plys well for wle u en flls down crclmomen.

l .e4 e5; 2.N Nc6; 3.Bc4 Bc5; 4.b4 Bxb4; 5.c3 Ba5; 6.d4 exd4;7.0-0 dxc3; 8.Ba3 d6; 9.Qb3 Nh6; 10.Nxc3 Bxc3?!; ll.xc3 00;12.Radl Ng4; 13.h3 Nge5; 14.Nxe5 Nxe5; 15.Be2.

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15. . .£5? An rocous posonl lunder wc wekens e dgonls owrds s kng. W s opponen n possesson of esoppr e sould ve closed e poson w 5 . . .f6. 16.£4Nc6; 17.Bc4+ 8; 18.Bb2 Qe7; 19.Rde1 Rf6 o mke wy for equeen.

20.exf5 Q.

2l.8! Te concluson devsed y Morpy s dlng u nodffcul o see or o clcule. 2 1 . Qxe8; 22.Qxf6 Qe7; 23.xg7+.Here Morpy could ve crowned s comnon w e smple

23.Qxe7 Nxe7; 24.f6. Insed e overcomplces.



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23 . . .Qxg7; 2.f6.

2. . .Qxg2+. No llowng Morpy e ll glory of s mgnfcen u somew unnecessry concepon: 24 . . .Q; 25.£+ Ne5;26.fxe5 5; 27.e6+ 7; 28.Bd3+ 6; 29.Rf6+ g5; 30.Rg6+ 4;3 . nd me y g2g3 or Rg4 n e cse of .. .4. 25.xg2 Bxh3+;26.xh3 h5; 27.Rgl. Bac resigned.

() MOHY NDERSSENParis, 1858

Te mer of Morpy's comnon n e followng gme sennced n our eyes y e fc s demolsed opponenws mser of e very frs rnk. Nevereless (s n e gmeolscAnderssen) one mus express surprse Andersen n

ccomplsed prconer of e comnve ven sould succumso rpdly o drec scrcl onslug. c5; 2.d cxd; 3.NNc6; .Nxd e6; 5.Nb5 d6; 6.Bf e5; 7.Be3.



7 .. .?! To dre o emrk on counerck n suc n ex-posed poson s o cllenge e logc o ngs" s Trkoverpu . ver cenur ler e rs gme o e cnddes mc

eween Fscer nd Perosn Buenos res wen . . .N6;8.Bg5 Be6; .Nc 6; .Bx6 gx6; .N d5!; .ex5 Bx;.x 5. Blck oned good poson u ler los. Sen-nderssen 2nd gme London 85 sw e noer dvergence:7 . . . 6; 8 .N5c Be6; .Nd5 Bxd5; .xd5 N6; . d5; .xN4; .N Nxe4 w srp pl rom wc Sen evenull won.

8.Nlc3 f4. I s oo le or 8 . . .6 e.g. .Nd5 5; .B6 ol-lowed Nc nd e rder wll escpe.

9.Nd5! I would e oo degrdng or orp o rere l-oug e posonl .Bc s no mens d snce Blck slred wrecd s own pwnsrucure. Te comnon lunced e ex does owever possess e mer o eng soluelsound.

9 3; 0.c7+ . . .Kd loses o .g4!

llQ+?! Ts cvler connuon s cull less convncngn .Nx8 ex; . 4; .g xe4; 4.Bg ec.

l l N; .c4 Nd4. Te onl deensve possl. To nser . . .ex; .x would deprve Blck o s useul empo nd

leve m wou resource gns e dscovered ceck.



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13.xf6+ d5!; 14.Bxd5+.

14 verlookng e possly of fres scrfce. lckcoul ry o sruggle on n n enng w 4 . . .5; 5.Nf5N; 6.g e; 7. c5; 8.Ke2 R8 u e es moves 4 . . .Ke7! wen We nee s powerl ck u lso ewlerng numer of peces en prse . Afer 4 . . .Ke7! ere s

long force lne nlyse ou y Zukeror n Mrocy: 5.5f6; 6. K6; 7.N8 Nc2; 8.Ke2 e7. ( 8. . .N ; 9 .7Nc2; 2 .fe3 ! n 2 .R . u ey overlook 2 . . .N4! s poneou y Vny . Terefore We soul ply 9.Rc ! ). 9 .e7e7; 2.Rc N4; 2.e3 7; 22.Rc7 R8; 23.R7. ereZukeror n Mrocy gve 23 . . .c6 wc s surly pssve. Mucsronger s (23 . . .Rc8! reenng .. .Rc2 n ... wc surely mer-

s n ssessmen of uncler. )ow muc of s Morpy see? We suspec very lle sncee recors revel e ook less n 3 mnues for e wolegme! In cse soul e e censure for mssng . N8?To s we mus oppose Lsker's remrk Morpy ws n rsno ucer n n e mnneeen cenury ucery noye ecome necessy for e cess mser. In 858 one nolose rng pons f one's rlln comnon urne ou o e

no que soun.15.Qh5+! f6; 16.fxe3 xc2+. remure esperon l-

oug lck sll loses fer 6. . .c7; 7.e4! 4; 8.c3 c3;9.Ke2 Ke7; 2.Rhf. 17.Ke2. lck resgne ere n vew of7 . . .c7; 8.Rf Ke7; 9.R K6; 2.Rc7 c7; 2 .Rc ec.



(5) MOHY DUKE O BSCK COU SOUADais Oea Hose

Ts s one o e mos mous mes n e lerur led

e Prs Oer. Wle e ld s snn onse or s rnn s on lle oer o close srrn nle! e4 e5; 2 N d

3d4 Bg4 Ts s no loner led. Te reerred ls odre cure d4 or sold oson ...d. de B?Blcks es cnce s o mke m o necess 4 . . .d!5 e5 Te rolem s oson or Blc s Wes e so r lonerm sse. B4 N; 3 e

N3 I 8.Qx7 en Blck cn esce no (los endn 8 . . .Q4. Gven e crcumsnces o e me ory usddn eel lke curn e n . T ould e ken eun ou o e me nd derved us o n mersle eel ocessord mnon.



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8 c6; 9.Bg5 b5.

.b5! Ts mor lk . Mory scrcs k or w s o cur or r s ur. cb5.T ol murs cvlrously cc vry u . . .4; .x4 x4; 2 .c3 ! s qucy csv. .Bb5 b7.

2.-- 8. o ks r n Mory ow rso or or. 3.7 7; 4. Qe6; 5.B7 7.lck s xr c u W cckms wo movs.6.Qb8! b8; 7.8.

(6) MOHY LOEEHLLoo, 859

Morys oo s m ws o o s kowlyrs orcs o m9 cury. corumy rs w s o u s xrms

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on o no roul oo. r snl sol onnln s rus or wo s vn o on onw o n.

e4 e; 2 c6; 3Bc4 Bc; 44 Bx4; c3 Bc; 6- 6;4 ex4; cx4 B6; e; xe xe; B2 e;2B+

2B; 3Bx+ x; 144+ ; + ; 6Bls rssn s n lorl n wll v r-sn r.

66; f4 K; 2 Rae; c4 Bc; 2Ra B6;2 Bx6 6; 22R 6; 23fc ; 24e3 4

2x6+ Vr r u s onl ll xr n on lon sn . 26; 26Rc+ K Or 6 . . .x x6 . ; 9.R#. 2x6 xf2+; 2x xf2;2Ra! 3+; 3h3 Kc; 3K Back resne



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F TH

DE V MOHYParis 863

Blck's peces seem oo fr wy o cuse ny prolems uMorpy mnges o rp open e poson. ow?

(2 ) MAACHE MOHYUSA, 857

Blck's peces re srng o converge on e We kng nde pssed cpwn s gre sse. All s rrelevn relly e-cuse ere s quck kll. W s ?



PAUL MOPY

(3) MORPHY DE RIVIEREParis, 1858

Morpy does no l o noce e enemy queen s noplce o run. ow dd e explo ?

(4) MORPHY MONGREDIEN

Paris, 1859

Te ck rnk s wek. ow does Morpy use comnon oexplo ?



. WLHELM STENTZ

irst Oicia ord Champion

Of ll e World Cmpons Sen s generlly een emos negleced wen comes o e r of comnve ply. Afrm elever vcory s es ceved roug e ccumul-on of smll dvnges nd one of e es defenders of s dySen dvnced e ecncl foundons of cess sregy uws no generlly nclned o flsy ply. Nevereless e rrelyfled o employ comnon wen e opporuny presenedself Mny of s gmes sow o rsc crevy nd nsruc-

onl dsplys of comnonl sll.Despe e gre numer of mpressve comnons roug

off y Sen s scrfcl ply someow lcks e crsmcluser of Morpy's. Possly s comnons exed excessveconformy o sregc eme; for exmple s msery of nssul on e wng gven closed cener ws complee. Senregrded mself s e frs gre pulcs of defensve nd pos-

onl prncples . In e comnonl spere we mg look uponm s e poneer of consoldon n ck."Sen's own ude s reveled n e followng pssge from

s Modern Chess Instructor: even e sound comnons n-volve gre scrfces very rrely presen dffcules s gre s emnennce of e lnce of e poson nd e sregy re-qured n ledng up o e fnl wnnng process ." I s muc rdero ply good posonl cess e mnns n o spo rlln

comnon. He wrongly predced rllnces would ecomeso commonplce s o e rvl nd scoffed e de lrgepres sould e offered for e mos rlln gme n ec ourn-men s ws ofen e cse unl rer recenly.

Well ws Sen's vew n s mure yers. Almos qur-er cenury efore e won s World Cmponsp mc e ws

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oundng ou comnons re sll dmred ody Le's ke look few.

(7) STENTZ MONGRNLondon, 1862Mongreden ws fn of exrvgn nd eccenrc openngs

c somemes led o very d oson erly n e gme. es no very sklled defender eer. I s no surprsng efell rey o numerous comnons ! Sen explos s opponen' snferor ply o esls srong poson.

l.e4 d5; 2.exd5 xd5; 3.Nc3 Qd8; 4.d4 e6; 5.N N; 6.d3Be7; 7.00 0-0; 8.e3 b6; 9.Ne5 b7; 10.£4 Nbd7; ll.Qe2 Nd5;12.Nxd5 exd5; 13.R.

Treenng 4 .Bx7+ 7; 5 . R3+ Kg8; .5 nd hitewins. 13 . . .; 14.h3 g6; 15.g4 g4; 16.Rxh7! Nxe5. . . .7;7.xg4 s us rnsposon. 17.fxe5 Kxh7; 18.Qxg4 Rg8;19.Qh5+ Kg; 20.Qh6+ ; 2l.Qh7+ Ke6; 22.Qh3+ ; 23.Rfl+Ke8; 24.Qe6. Te wo que moves durng e conduc of e -ck ennce e quly of Sen's concepon. Afer e exBlck's kng s no escpe. 24Rg7; 25.g5 Qd7; 26.xg6+ Rxg6;27.g6+ Kd8; 28.R+. ac resigned s s me n one.

8) DUOS SENZLondon, 1862

In s gme we see ow murky e defnon of comnons. Aloug e ler poron of e gme does con mnorccl fnesse s n e openng e ruly deep scrfce



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kes ple. Blks 8 move nves We o wn lo of merl.Old nlyss of e omnon s very superfl. I s lkely Sen d onsdered mos of e mn des seen n e nlyss

we presen. We wll never know owever nd us e nlyssrelune o ener no e mos ompled lnes perps rosSen of n even lrger sle of mmorly.

l.e4 e5; 2.N Nc6; 3.Bc4 Bc5; 4.0-0 Nf6; 5.d3 d6; 6.Bg5 h6;7 .Bh4 g5; 8.Bg3 h5 .

Dd Sen know w e mg ve goen mself no ws move? Te omplons re enormous s we sll see uld-ng on some longpulsed nlyss nd ddng of our own.

9.h4 We mus dverge from e gme o onsder speulromnonl possly.

9.Nxg5 s sdelne no e ul gme. Te mn lne of enlyss s rued o Loewenl u my well ve represened e lkely onnuon. In e 9 enury one ws sollyenourged o ep srfes. To delne would e dsonorleunless e epne of e srfe would led o n lmos mmede demse. Sude ws lso dsonorle nd even llegl!So We would lkely ve gred e pwn g5 even oug. . .4 rps e sop. Afer ll e pwn would fll w

fork gns queen nd rook.9 . . .4 nrodues some wonderful s. Weer qulfes

s omnon s unler. Blk srfes e queen for srongk on e enemy kng.



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10.Nxf s now plyed. Blck sould reply 10. . .xg3! fer .Nxd8 Bg4; 12 .Qd2 loses o 12 . . .Nd4; 13.Nc3 ( 13 .B+ us delyse nevle) 13. . .N+; 14.gx Bx; 15 .xg3 #. .Nx8 sless greedy oug e ecs of e gme e me more or lessrequred We o ccep e offer of e queen. ow does Blcconnue? Proly w . . .Bx+; 12 .K Qe wc rnsposes

elow o e nex dgrm. 12 . .Less effecve s 10. . .Qe; .Nx8 xg3; 12.K! (12.B+ s

me y 12 . . .Kd8; 13 .Nd2 Bx+; 14. Ng4; 15 .N Qf6 nd Blcwns ccordng o Loewenl wo lso pons ou 12.Nf Bx+;13.Rx gx+; 14.Kx Ng4+; 15.Kg3 Qf6; 16.Q ) 12. . .Bxw n excng poson.

13.B£+ Kd8; 14.Nd2 ( 14.xg3 Ng4; 15 .Qd2 Qf6 wns pece. 6.Ng6Qx; 1.5+ Ke8; 18.Q5 Ne; 19.Q8+ Ng8. Blck s clerdvnge) 14 . . .Ng4; 15.N Qf6; 16.Qd2 Be3!



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Bck o e cul gme were more freworks w us !

9 .. .Bg4; 10.c3 Qd7; ll.d4. Now e cener explodes. l l exd4;12.e5 dxe5; 13.Bxe5 Nxe5; 14.Nxe5 Qf5.

15.Nxg4. 15.Bx7+ K 16.Qe s preferred y Loewenl ufer 16. . .Bd6; 17.Nxg4 g4; 18.Qe6 e6; 19.Bxe6 gx4 Bck ssll muc eer. 20.cxd4 Re8; 2.Re 3; 22.Nc3 2+; 23. g3;24.fxg3 Bxg3; 25.Re2 Kg7; 26.Rf N5; 27.R+ Kg6; 28. Bf4nd Blck wns.



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154; 1.d3 Qd5; 17 .b4 000 !

1.c4. 8.xc5 Rx4; 9 .c6?? Rd8! nd We s uc cec-med.

1Qc; 1.bc5 h4; 20. dh; 2.4 Q; 22.Q2.

lc s dn ece u frces vcr excnn ueens !22Q3!; 23.3. rced r else s me .



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23e3; 243 hl+; 25K2 8h2+; 26 fl+; 27fl+; 28e3 fl

Ar ll s xgs mrl s v u lry rsg us kg rk ws r wk.

29a4 Kd7; 30Kd3 4; 3lKc3 3.K N3; 3.K3 N;

33.g4 N6; 34.K Nxg4 kgs ws mr rwr3 l e3; 32a2 sr u lk ws wg y s.3.K3 N; 33 .g4 N6 .

32 bl; 33d2+ Kc6; 342 +; 35Kd2

s lk lur? N ll. T kg w gms sml w. I s gm ur vlu gml w. 35c2+!; 36e3 2+; 37e2 ;38Ke3 c5; 39Kd3 f4 hite esied

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9) STEINITZ MONGREDNLondon 863

Our frend Mongreden s e vcm once gn. Te doule-

finceo sreg is flwed. I is oo slow. Seini pus e me ogood use nd develops quckl. Hs ck culmnes n fne com-bnon.

l.e4 g6; 2.d4 Bg7; 3.c3 b6; 4.Be3 Bb7; 5.Nd2 d6; 6.Ng e5;7.xe5 xe5; 8.Bc4 Ne7; 9.Qe2 00; 0.h4. Inugurng e cls-sic Sein ck down e fle. 0Nd7; lh5 N; 2hg6Nxg6; 3.0-0-0 c5; 14.Ng5 a6.

15.Nxh7! Te unforune Mongreden flls vcm o e self-sme comnion sruck m down one er prevousl.15 . . .Nxh7; 6.Rxh7 xh7; 7.Qh5+ Kg8; 8.Rh Re; 9Qxg6

Qf6; 20.Bx+! Te ke o We's plo wc s effecvel ex-ploed o of e rdonl wek pons 7 nd . 20 7;2 .h8+ xh8; 22 .. Bac resigns s 22 . . .R8; 23.Q5+ Kg8;24.g6 s opeless for Blck. 0.

( 0) ZUKERTORT STEINITZord Chamionshi Match 886

Ts gme ws pled n cones for e le of World Cm

pon e frs mc o e offcll recogned s le cones.Te es known comnon from s mc s e presen gme.Te soled dpwn posons re known for er comnonlopporunes e openng sreg ws que populr for Blck e me.



UIHI • EEE HIE

l.d4 d5; 2.c4 e6; 3.Nc3 Nf6; 4.e3 c5; 5.N Nc6; 6.a3 dxc4;7.xc4 cxd4; 8.exd4 e7; 9.00 00; 10.e3 d7; .Qd3 ;12.acl Qa5; 13.a2 fd8; 14.fel e8; 15.b 6; 16.Qe2 ;

17.edl 7.

So fr ply s followed n e ypcl fson of n soled d-pwn gme. We cks e kngsde Blck res o explo e

wekness of e dpwn. Te poson s Trrsc Defense n re-verse 18.a2 Ne7; 19.Qd2. We reens cep cc: Nd5 !

19 .. .Qa6; 20.5 N; 2 l .4? Ts grely wekens e kngsdend We wll suffer for n e end We sould ve excngedon f6 nsed

2 l . Nxd4!

Te scrfce of e kng s only emporry.



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22.d4 e; 23.d ; 24. ed4; 2.d4 d.

2. d. 26.Bxd8 Bxd4; 27.Bxd5 Qd6 picks off one of the bish-ops. 2d; 2.d e2; 2.3 . 8 ...Bxb2! was stronger,ut Steitz redeems himsel n ew more moves. Yet, had he playedthis correct move, we never would have seen the concuding combi-nation! Thus we again see that imperfecion is sometmes required

to achieve a combination.2.4 ; 30.e3 d+; 3.K2 ; 32.e.

32e+! classic clean finsh, offerng a bishop to decoy the

enemy queen to a square on whic it wll be lnerable. 33.f4.33.Qxe5 Qh+; 34.Kg3 g+; 35.Kf4 (35.Kh4 Qx+; 36.3 g5+;37.h5 Qx3; 38.xh6 Qh4#) 35 ...Qh2 wins the queen. 33f4+;34.4 +; 3.K3 +. Wte resned.



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( 1 1 ) S CHGOod Chamionshi Match, 1892

s years wen y e enzan aack slowed down a . n

s game we see a slow preparaon for a rual assaul. s sruly a nasy form of e pans nquson as even Cgornmaser of e Black sde of e pans Game fnds o s dscom-for.

l.e4 e5; 2. c6; 3.b5 £6; 4.d3. e fasonale movenow s 4.00 u ere s nong wrong w s que renforce-men of e cener and 4.e2 as suggesed y e pans nqus-

or uy Lopez mself s also well playale.4 d6; 5.c3 g6. nsead of playng on e queensde w ...a6. . .5 ec. Cgorn decdes o operae along Kngs ndan lnes.We sould recall a Cgorn was e prope of s defense.

6.bd2 g7.

7.fl. elayed caslngypcal ofenz s profoundly cereralapproac o e Lopez. 7 . . . 0-0; 8.a4. reparng o come round oc2 from wc square e sop wll renforce Wes cener.

8 d7. Cgorn seems o e organzng e reak ... us plan s fauly. e sould eer ave lef e f6kng a s posand gone for mmedae queensde epanson 8 . . .a6 .Ne3 5

0.B3 Na5; .Bc2 c5 or else e sould ave me .Ne3 n egame connuaon w .. .N6 ryng o ge n . . .d6d5. 9.e3 c5;10 .c2 e6; l l .h4! e famlar enz reamen.

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. . .Ne; 2.h5 d5; 3.xg.

3 .. .g severe posonal error (always capurng owardse cener s one of e eer rules") n a Black rrerevalyweans e a2g dagonal on wc s kng s suaed. fer3 . . .g6 We as nong mmedae. 4.exd5 Nxd5; 5.Nxd5d5; .b3 c. We conrols wo powerl open lnes owards

e Black kng and n vew of Cgorns lack of counerplay only remans for enz o molze e remander of s forcesefore e decsve aack wll nevaly maeralze .

.e2 d; 8 .e3 h8. laer World Campon M Euwecommened: e qus e lne of e sop u seps drecly noe lne of e rook." 9.0-0-0 ae8; 20.f. very fne movewc prepares o open wo new avenues of aack. 20 ...a5. e

wreced suaon of Blacks kng leaves m curously elpless odefend agans e comng onslaug. 2.d4 w e rea of 22.d5so Black as no coce.

2 . . .exd4; 22.Nxd4.



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22xd4. n nvaon o dsaser u ere s no defensee.g. 22 . . .Nd4 23.+ 24.+ or 22 . . .e4 23 .Bc2 424. 3 25 .N g 26.d and We wns. 23.xd4! ere

are so many reas a s pon (even e smple d4 wll edeadly) a Black may as well gra a e ecange.23 ...Nxd4.

24.xh7!! eaul denouemen. us as everyone was wang for eecuon along e wn sop dagonals enz revealss rue plans w s sunnng surprse. 24 .. .xh7; 2.Qh. mos orgnal pon of deparure for a mang aack along e -fle. 2 .. .K7; 26.h6 Kf6; 27 .Qh4 ; 28.xd4 29.Qf4.

( 2) S VON AELEEN

astis, 89e mos celeraed ournamen of e cenury ook placen asngs England n 5. e asngs radon connueseven o s day and as produced more an s sare of rllan-ces. enz elped rng e even fame w e followng gameamong e es known of s vcores .

.e4 e; 2.N Nc6; 3.c4 c; 4.c3 Nf6; .d4 exd4; 6.cxd4b4; 7.Nc3 d?! vodng e complees of . . .Ne4! .00

Bc3 .d5 wc was unknown errory n 5.8.exd Nxd; 9.00 e6; 0. e7.

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ll.Bxd5. An uneeced ecange e pon of wc s o delaylacks caslng. l l . . .Bxd5; 12.Nxd5 d5; 13.Bxe7 Nxe7; 14.ef 15.Qe2 Qd7; 16.acl c6? mperave was 6. . .! o reak en. Aer e eenz launces a comnaon wc mpover-ses adecval descrpon.

17.d5! cxd5; 18.Nd4 ; 19.Ne6 c8; 20.Qg4 g6; 2.Ng5+

e8.

22.xe7+! e rook s mmune e.g . 22 . . .e 23.e+Kd6 24.4+ Kc 25 .Ne6+ K 26.f4+. Bu ow s We o wn

w every pece en prse and Black reaenng mae? 23.+!Kg8; 24.g7+! Bac resiged. Mae s forced: 24 . . . 25.+Kg 26 .g+ K. (26 . . .K loses o 2.N+.) 2.4+ Kg2.+ K; 2.+ Ke 30.+ Ke 3.+ Ke 32.+Kd 33.+ e 34.N+ Kd 35.d6.

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(5) STEINITZ · SCOTTDundee, 1867

Te lineup on e 3f8 digonl is e key ere.

(6) STEINITZ · BLACBUNELondon, 1876

Te gol ere is o liere e squre Wie so desperelyneeds.



WILELM STEIIT

(7) S CHGOod Championship Match, Havana, 892

e Black kng looks well defended and Wes cances ap-pear o le w s passed pawns. owever ngs are no waey seem.

(8) R SVienna, 860

ow does Black capalze on e open fles on e kngsde

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5. EMANUEL LASKER

Second Word Campion ( 1894- 192 1)

Lsker eld on o e undspued World Cmponsp for over qurer of cenury wc s sll record Hs ccl ly wsmced y creve fculy wc ogeer produced mny fnegmes Hs skll ws suc e ws usully le o wn gme ypurely ecncl mens u from me o me memorle comnon lso ppered on e cessord

Lsker d gre confdence n s mddlegme nd endgmesklls nd ws no deep sregs He reled on s opponen omke n error some pon nd ddn' worry ou mnnngn openng dvnge s We Hs sense of dnger ws fnscnd sme ly served m well n ck Hs comnonsofen seem o sprng ou of n r Sudyng e complee gmeswc conn e comnons wll elp you develop e sor ofvson led Lsker o s grees vcores

Te qunessenl genus Aler Ensen knew Lsker well

Lsker ws rer crcl of Ensen's Teory of Relvy' u ddn' crry over o personl relons Indeed Ensen wroee foreword o Lsker's ogrpy W e relly yerned forws some scenfc undersndng nd euy peculr o eprocess of logcl creon euy from wose mgc spell noone cn escpe wo s ever el s slges nfluence" Lsker'scomnons s we sll see sow euy n rlln lg

( 1) SER · BAUERAmsterdam, 1889

Ts s perps e mos celered of Lsker's rllnces Is ypcl of s syle A que openng seles no menderngmddlegme were no cler segy s dsplyed Te opponen'ssense of dnger s no suffcenly cue nd one posonl ms

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te gves rse o one of e mos memorale comnaons l.f4; 2.e3 N; 3.3 e6; 4.B2 Be; .Bd3. crude move wc lmts es sraegc oecves o a kngsde aack Black s ask over

te ne few moves sould e o olerae s sop somewartfcal move u no enrely ad ecause e cpawn can ad-ance o c4 and en e sop can rerea o c2 or as needed

.. .6; 6.N B; .Nc3 Nd; 8.0-0 0-0. Black as a soldoson and We as no real advanage 9.Ne2! Conssen ws plan of a ngsde aack u Black sould ave repled w Nc5! neuralzng Wes powerful lg square sop s fal-re o do s resuls n a rapd deeroraton of s prospecs

9 . . . c; 0.N3 Qc.

ll.Ne. We occupes s square efore e Black pawn ad-

vances o e5 ll .

Nxe. s also falls n oo readly w Weslanse sould ave red d4 ! o reak e dagonal of We s2 sop W us one move Black nves dsaser Movng oneof e rooks o c would ave een eer

2.Bxe Qc6; 3.Qe2 a6. We as compleed developmenand s ready o aack e poston of e rook a a canno emproved for e momen Lasker sars y elmnang one of efew defenders of e Black kng u e doesn par w Be5

4.N Nxh. nwngly allowng e doulesop" com-naon n e oer and 4 Ne also loses specacularly o5Bg!!

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.Bxh+! xh; 6.xh+ 8.

.Bx! s reaens mae a 8 .. . r f6; 8e8; 6 and hite wins 8 .Q4+ h. Now e queen guardsg2 and We can reaen e sdeways equvalen of a ack rankmae 9. e. ere s no recourse oer an seddng equeen u Lasker pcks up a sray sop as well Now a leas e

Black queen can come o 6 20.h+ Qh6; 2 l .Rxh6+ xh6.

22.Qd. e fnal pon of e comnaon Black sould avesopped ere and e fnal moves are no so neresng s wnsone of e sops and e game now s decsvely n We s favor

22 Bf6; 2.x ; 24.f Ra8; 2.Qd Rfd8; 26.Q4+; 2.e B. 2 Be5; 285 f6; 2e5 sows anoermeod of elong e pn on e fe 28.e6 ; 29.Q6. Weeplos e pn n e mamally effcen way 29 ; 0.Rx+Bxf6; .Qxf6+ e8; 2.Qh8+ e; .Q+. Back resins. Anmpressve accal dsplay

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EUEL SKE

( 14) PLLSBURY SERSaint Petersburg, 1896

1.d4 d; 2.c4 e6; .Nc N; 4.N c; .Bg cxd4; 6.Qxd4 Nc6;

7.4?!ronger s 7.Bxf6 ! s Pllsury ler dscovered. .. .Be;.0-0-0 Qa; 9.e Bd; 10.1 6; ll.cxd exd; 12.Nd4 0-0;1.Bxf6 Bxf6; 14.Q Nxd4; 1.exd4 Be6; 16.f4 Rac8; 1.f.

Here Blck nvess n excnge o expose e enemy kng.17 ...Rxc! ; 18.fxe6. By connung w s counerck Pllsuryforces Lsker o revel e full dep of s comnon for egme could ve come o n rup nd unspecculr conclusonfer 18.xc3 xc3 1 9.fxe6 wnnng. W s ofen overlookeds e loser of rlln gme cn deserve cred for offerngressnce demnds e ges quly of ck. 18 .. .Ra!! A

move comes no e mrculous clss. nce e 2pwn sndefensle Pllsury s forced o ccep.19.exf+ Rx; 20.bxa b6+.

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21.Bb. 2.Kc2 also loses 2...c+; 22.Kd2 d4+; 23.Kec3+ ec. 21 . . .Q+; 22.1 Rc; 2.Rd2 Rc4; 24.d1 Rc. read-ng e same pa as s former colleague. 2.Qf Qc4; 26.b2.

e comnaons are no over ye! 26 ...Rxa!!; 2.Qe6+. fWe akes e rook en Black maes even qucker w 2 . . .c3+;2.Ka4 5+! ; 29 .5 c4+; 30 .Ka5 Bd#. 2 ; 28.xa Qc+;

29.a4 b+!; 0.xb Qc4+; 1.a Bd8+. Back resigned.

( 1) PORGES SERNuremberg, 1896

Laskers games sow a grea deal of paence and for s rea-son rllan comnaons are no as common as n e case ofoer World Campons. Lasker was conen o ge a good poson

and uld eplong e opponens msakes rulessly and effcenly. n s eample nong muc appens a e sar of egame. l.e4 e; 2 .N Nc6; .Bb Nf6; 4.0-0 Nxe4; .d4 Be; 6.Qe2Nd6; .Bxc6 bxc6; 8.dxe Nb. Blacks queensde looks srange.

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Lasker as prepared e aack well and now uses a comna-on o fns off s opponen. 2 .. .Nx2. s removes one of eman defenders of e kng. nce e rook a e3 s aacked Blacks

reply s forced. 28.x2 e+; 29.Rx. 2. fe2 30.e2 Bg4and Black as a era pawn e nave and a connung aack.29 .. .Bh+. Now f e kng rereas e rook a falls.

0.xh. 30 .K R+ 3 . 4 wns ack e pece w noloss of power n e aack. Aer 32. (32.N e4+ 33..Black maes n 6 w 33 . . . + 34 .Ke e3! 35 .Ng3 meenge rea of + 35 . . .g3 36.d5+ cd5 3.Kd + 3.Kc2

e2) 32 . . .R+ 33.Ke g3 34.Ng3 Bg4 we canno avode loss of furer maeral. Aloug s s no a pure" comna-on e nal nvesmen as pad off que ncely.

0 . . . Q4+; .2 +.

ere e We kng comms sucde u commenaors aveended o gnore e fac a ere s no mmedae forced wn fe kng reurns o e fle.

2.l. 32.K3 4+ 33 .Kg2 4 34.Nd4 d 35 .Rd g3and now nsead of recapurng a g3 We could ry o ang onw 36.Nc6 u afer 36 . . .g2 3.Ne+ 3.Nd5 Blacksould wn n e end. 2 h4; .Nh Qe+. hite resined.

( 6) N ERMoscow, 9

Aloug Lasker was no a prolfc creaor of comnaons eloved comple accs a requred calculaon. s aly o seedeeper an s opponens led o many vcores and even e passng of years dd no dull s facules as s game sows.



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l.d4 d; 2.4 6; .cxd cxd; 4.N N6; .N Nf6; 6.Bf4f. e que symmery of e Ecange Varaon of e lavdoes no always lead o orng encouners. .Q Na; .Qa4+ Bd;

.2 R. Black already as e nave and We s queen forays eposed as a wase of me.

0.e ; l l .a e6; 2.Bd Be; .Ne N4; 4.Qe2 0-0; .0-0 e. s s played to create room for kng a d.

6.Racl Nd; .Nx4 x4; .Bl . Aloug e pawn ae6 s we e sop a s even weaker. . N6; 20.B2 Bd6;2l.Bxd6 Qxd6; 22.Rdl Bd; 2.Qd2 B6; 24.Rfel Rd; 2.Re2Rd; 26.Rdel 6; 2.Rdl ; 2.Qel Rd. s par of Laskersgenus at e was ale o prepare acks well n advance. ere eses up conrol of e fle wc wll play a crcal role n e

evenual comnaon. s s no really a deep sraegc concep-on. Lasker smply pus s peces on poenally useful squares.29.Rdd2 Nd; 0.B l e; .Q Qe6; 2.e4 exd4; .e Q;

4.e6.



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Laskers queen s aacked u o e suprse of s opponene sacrfces as par of a comnaon 34 .. .xc3! ! ; 3.Rx d2;36.Rx6+. We as no coce 36Bc2 Nf6; 3fg6 2 ;

3g+ K; 3 e5 +! ; 40 ! We s feelng opeless For eample: 4 d6 N; 426 d N+! ! ; 43Kg Nc3; 44BN; 45c6 Nc3 36 hx6; 3.Qx6+ ; 38.Qd6+ 8.

s now clear a We canno arrange a perpeual ceckMaerally We as a queen and wo pawns for wo rooks and akng wc s no a grea dfference We mus ake no accounowever a Blacks powerful pawn a d2 and e reas on e -pawn add up o a decsve advanage and Wes four connecedpassed pawns offer no relef

39.Bc2. We as dual reas of f6 and c6 u Black s

prepared 39

R6!; 40.f6 Kd8!; 4l. Kc8! We s allowed opromoe e fpawn and wn a pece u Black can afford sucsacrfces 42.Q+ N; 43.Q+ K. We as alanced emaeral u e end s near 44.Q Ka6! ; 4.Qd6 Re! Now Blackwll e ale o advance e dpawn and wn ack e pece 46.h4Rel+; 4.h2 Rcl ; 48.B. esperaon 4 g6 Ba4! wraps ngsup 48 dQ; 49.Bc8+ Ka! A remarkale ourney y e Black kngs a srkng caracersc of s game ite resined ere

( ) CHGO · LKRLondon, 899

s game feaures e relavly rare suaon were o sdesave casled on e queensde s does no sop Lasker fromlauncng an aack down e afle and e fnses w a preycomnaon



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2 .. . K; .g4 Rdd8; 4.Ne.

Now e accs sar o fly! Black doesn care aou e rook ac8 wc wasn dong anyng anyway Laskers eyes are focusednenly on e enemy kng. 4 ...Bx! Of course e sop s a-oo ecause of .a mae. .Nxc8 Rxc8; 6.Qd2. We wasproaly epecng Black o capure a c2 u nsead Lasker n

creases e pressure snce e rook sn gong anywere.6 .. .Qa; .l Ra8; 8.2.

Of course Lasker could us ake e rook a c2 ere so erewas no need for an elegan comnaon u mndful of e speca-ors Lasker provded a clever comnaon o fns e game.8 ... Bxa2+!; 9.Rxa2 Q+; 40.Kcl . 40 .2 B2; 41 .2 d3+;42c2 s ovously opeless for We 40 .. .Rxa2; 4.a2Be+. s s e key move a was no so easy o see a e sar ofe comnaon wose effec was o make s possle. 42.Qd2Qxd. Cgorn ad seen enoug and resigned



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( 8) LEE LERLondon, 899

ere s anoer eample of a paen uldup o a fne comna-

ton Lasker plays a radonal pans game resolves e cenralsuaon a move and en mproves e poson o e ponwere a comnaon presens self

l .e4 e; 2 .N Nc6; .B a6; 4.Ba4 Nf6; .d d6; 6.c ; .Bc2g6; 8.a4 B; 9.Nd2 B; 0.Nfl d. We s que play allows save connuaon .Qe2 00; 2.Ng Qd6; .00 Rfe8; 4.ha; .Bd2 c; 6 .fd Qc; .Qe c4; 8.d4. Blacks queensdeave s growng and We decdes s me o force maers te cener

8 .. .Nxe4; 9.Nxe4 xe4; 20.Nxe Bxe; 2l.dxe Qxe.

As a resul of e ecanges Black as several advanages nludng a permanen conrol of more space a grea deal of nflu-ence a d3 and n e long erm aackng possles Black s upa pawn e aack wll requre e asssance of e sop a so We lockades e epawn

22.Be Nc6; 2. Na; 24.4 Nc6; 2.Rd. Usually one fearse nvason of e seven rank u ere We as no supporng forces and e can e defended laerally

2 . ..Re; 26.Rdd Rd8; 2.Rxd8+ Nxd8; 28. ; 29.Qd2Ne6; 0.h4 Bc6; .Ra6 Rd; 2 .Qe B; .Ra. e rook doesno accompls muc a a5 . . .f; 4.g.



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Now e sraegy of e aack akes place. e goal s o ge esop a e3 o move advance e epawn and use e open lneso converge on e enemy kng. 4 f4!; .gxf4 Nf4; 6.Bd4Lee fals o apprecae a e sop a e3 s oldng s gameogeer oug one mus adm a e poson was already preyad. 36.Bf4 f4 3.e3 e3 3.fe3 was ugly u necessary.

6. . .Qf; .Qe.

looks as oug We s keepng e poson closed u acomnaon y Lasker eposes e weaknesses. .. .xd4!; 8.d4Q4+; 9.Kf Q2+; 40.Ke Q+; 4.Kd2. Now wa looks asoug e enemy kng as escaped and e sop a remansa specaor. 4 . . .c+!; 42.Qxc. 42.c3 loses o 42 . . .Nd5+.

42 ... +; 4.Kd. 43 .Kc Ne2+ s ermnal. 4 ... e. Now eres a rea of . . .B+ and e epawn s edgng closer o e promo-on square. 44.B+ K; 4.d+. s cus off e sop. 4 .. .6;46.Qe Bc8! ite resined as e sop wll ener va g4.



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(9) ER SEN,

ord Championship (2nd Game), 89

Lasker go off o a good sar n s le defense w a crus-ng sacrfce agans enz s kng Were s e mang aack

( 0) JANOS ERParis, 909

ow does Black reak roug



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( ) SKR PRCMoscow 93

We o move Blacks poson as a glarng weakness a se key o solvng s poson

(2) SKR OBSROBRSON

Cheteam, 898

We s very close o ceckmang e enemy kng u wa se mos effcen kll

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Third Word Champion (1921-1927)Capabanca was one of the most accurate of Word Champions

He rarey bundered either tacticaly or strategicaly He coud seethe hidden mines of the battefield at a gance, and payed veryrapidy His abiity to avoid mistakes brought him great success,both in tournament and match lay Sooner or later his opponentswoud find a way to gve the Cuban Grandmaster an opportunityto gain the advantage, and Capabanca woud take it

Capabanca, in his Last Lectures wrote that combinations are sovaried and so numerous, that it isn't possibe to give any generaadvice Yet in his games, he rarey faied to find the briliancieswhen the positon was ripe As Rti once said of Capabanca, in asense, chess is his mother tongue" Here we wl examine some ofhis poetry Learn his anguage we and it wi help you in your

games

( 19) TI CAPABLANCABerin, 1928.

Woud Rti himsef have incuded this game in a revision of hiscassic Masters of the Chessboard? Unfortunatey, hs premature deathin 12 eft that question unanswered The high praise heaped onCapabanca in that book woud have been fuy justifed by the payin this game

l.e4 e5; 2.N Nc6; 3.Bb5 d6; 4.c3 a6; 5.Ba4 f5; 6.d4. Moderntheory ndicates that 6ex Bx; 700 Bd3; 8Re Be7; Bc2 givesWhite an edge 6 . . .fxe4; 7 .Ng5 exd4; 8.Nxe4 Nf6; 9.Bg5 Be7;10.Qxd4. White miscacuates and Back won't be abe to take ad-vantage of the exposed queen 10 ...b5. Wnning material, but White




must have fet that so many pawn moves woud aow counterplay.ll.Nx+ g6; 12.Qd5 bxa4.

13.Bh6. 13.Qxc6+ achieves nothing against 13. . .Bd7. 3 Qd;4.0-0 Bb. Aiming his extra piece straight at Whites king posi-tion. 5 Bg 0-0-0. Another fine move. Back has no choice u ogive ack a ittle materia to take the initiative. Afer Whie takes

the rook, Back wi have his queen ishop, knigh, queen and rooka aiming at Whites king, which has no defenders. 6Bxh8 Ne5Now Whites queen wont e ae to get back to defend the kingside.

1.Qdl

1 . B. Very powerfu. Back wins a tmpo on White s queenwhile not aowing any counterpay. The sacrifice must e acceptedor else .. .Qh3 is an easy win. 8g. 18.Qd4 Qh3; 19.gxh3 Rg8+;mates. 18 .. .Qh3 White has no defense to threats ike 19. . .Nx+and 19. . .Rg8+ so Rti resied



JOE AU APAA

(20) CAPABLANCA VIBudapest, 1928

Capalanca has suffered some adverse press n that hs pulc

mage s often projected as that of a colorless, rskfree techncan.But, we wonder how many peope realze that a sharp sacrfcaldea, normally assocated wth Keres and Tal, was actually poneeredy Capalanca?

l.d4 d5; 2.c4 e6; 3.N xc4. Ths move was consdered ad fora long tme, ut has recently een resurrected n Grandmastercrcles. 4.e4. Ths was the proper reacton for many years, ut nowt s consdered harmless. Such players as World ChamponshpCanddates Korchno and ner, and rsng star Rulevsky, playedt n 997, wth postve results . 4 .. .c5. Todays preference s 4 . . .5,ut the tet s stll seen, from those who dont know ther hstory!

5.Bxc4 cxd4; 6.Nxd4 N; 7.Nc3.

7 ...a6? Even worse than 7 . . .Bc5 whch Bouow essayed aganstCapalanca at Moscow, 925. The sequel was 8.Be3 Nd7; 9 .Be6!(accordng to Golomek, Capalanca played the sacrfce mmed-ately) 9 . . .fe6; .Ne6 Qa5; . Be3; 2 .fe3 ; 13 .Q3 Kg6;4.R Q6; 5.Nf4+ Kh6 and now Capalanca would have wonoutrght wth 6.Q! Instead he played 16.g4? ut stll won after

varous complcatons.



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80-0 Bc5; 9Be3 Nbd7

9 00 was the ony chance, for the text permts Capaanca tounleash hs comnaton wth added punch 10Bxe6! Capalancaaso rought off a smar sacrfce n hs game aganst Meses atMargate 935 d4 d5; 2c4 c6; 3N Nf6; 4e3 e6; 5Nc3 Nd7;6Bd3 c4; 7Bxc4 a6; 8e4 c5; 9e5 Ng4; 10Ng5 Nh6; Bxe6!

and Whte won, snce fxe6 fas to 12 Nxe6 Qa5; 3 Bd2 cxd4;4 Nd5! wns

10 e6; llNxe6 Qa5; 12Nxg7+

13N In addton to hs three pawns worth of materal com-pensaton, Whte s aded y the exposed poston of Black's knghtand hs naty to coordnate hs other peces Meanwhle,Capaanca's mozaton proceeds apace 13 Ne5; 14Qb3 Kg6;15Racl B A very odd move, ut 15 Bxe3; 6fxe3 would etWhte's frook nto the game, very much as n the Bogouowgame 16Ne2 h5; 17Rfdl Rg8; 18Nf4+ h7



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19.Bb Qb5; 20.Rc7+ Kh8. Or 20 Bg7; 2Qg8+ Kg8;22Rg7+ K; 23Rd8+ Ne8; 24Rc8 and Whe wns 21.Qxb5!he fnal lnk n he comnaon I s ypcal of Capalanca' s lu-cd syle o no avod he queen echange, u he had o see a veryfne pon on move 24 2 l . . .b5; 22.Rd8 Rxa2; 23.Rxc8.

23. . .c4. oes Black regan he pece? 24.h3! xb; 25.RxNfd7. 25 R; 26Ng6+ Kg8; 27 Nh6# 2. Rxb2; 27 .d5.Bac eed.

2 1 ALARSV APABLAAocow 1935

The followng game s a gem from Capalanca's las years as anacve playe, u s ofen lef ou of anhologes of hs es games classc eloaon of an open fle comned wh a weak ackrank makes hs one of hs nsrucve, and pures, comnaons



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l.d4 Nf6; 2.c4 e6; 3.Nc3 d5; 4.Bg5 Be7; 5 .e3 0-0; 6 .d5 Nxd5;7.Bxe7 Qxe7; 8.N Nxc3; 9.bxc3 b6; 0.Be2 Bb; .0-0 c5;2.Ne5. Whes whole plan n hs game s o rade as many peces

as possle as quckly as possle n hopes of makng an early draw.2. . .Nc6; 3.Nxc6 Bxc6; 4.B Rac8; 5.a4 cxd4; 6.cxd4 g6;

7.Bxc6 Rxc6; 8.Qd3 Qb7; 9. Rfc8; 20.h3 a6; 2 .Qa3. as Whe s almos whn sgh of hs draw haven he sars o playadly. ere 2 .R2 defends adequaely snce Blacks conrol of hecfle s alanced y Whes pressure agans he queensde pawns.

2 . . .Rc2. Whe mus now ry 22 .Rc . 22.Qd6?

The fnal error alhough akes play of very hgh order oeplo . I s easy o see ha he focus of Blacks operaons les ag2 where he scope of he powerful queen a 7 and rook a c2

converge. Wha s no so ovous s how o make work uCapalanca unleashes a powerl comnaon ha reduces Whe sposon o rule. 22Rx!!; 23.Qg3. The sacrfce canno eacceped: 23 . Rc2+ 24.Kg3 Qg2+ 25 .h4 (25.f4 + 26.Ke5R#) 25 . . .g5+ 26.5 Qh3+ 27.g5 Rg2+ 28.Kf6 Qh4+ 29 .Ke5Rg5+ 30.Kf6 5+. 23 .. .Rcc2. Unforunaely for Whe s clearha he sacrfce canno e declned. hite esigned.

22 AL CAPABLANCANew o, 93

Comnaons overlooked y world champons are relavely rareu can e us as revealng as hose ha hey play. The follownggame conans a devasang rck overlooked y oh Capalancaand he resourceful Amercan Grandmaser Frank Marshall . I hasaken over half a cenury for he error o e dscovered!



JO AL APABA

l.N N; 2.d4 e6; 3 .c4 b6; 4.g3 Bb7; 5.Bg2 Bb4+; 6.Bd2 Bxd2+;7.Nbxd2. More aggressive is 7 Qxd2 70-0; 8.0-0 c5; 9.xc5 bxc5;l.Rcl. Again more vigorous is 10 Qc2 as in the game Bogouow

Nimzowitsch Berlin 1 927 10 . . . Qc7; l l .Nb3 d6; 12 .Qd2 Nc6;13.fdl d8; 14.Nh4 a5. This energetic advance gives Black theadvantage 15.a4 Rab8; 16.Rc3 Ba; 17.h3 N4; 18.Bxa8 Rxa8;9.Qf4 Qc6; 20.R Rd7; 2l.g4 Qxa4. A premature harvest Byaying 2 Ra6 Back coud have retained his attack against White' seenside while strengthening his own center and avoidng anytactics However Capaanca has missed a trick

22.Rxd6 Nbd5.

Capaanca's pay is very cever since 23cxd5 fals to 23 Qxf424Rxf4 Rxd6 Nevertheless oth payers as wel as all susequent

commentators faied to see that White has the magnificent resourcehere 23Ra6! ! The main line discovered y Grandmaster John Nunncontinues 23 Nx 24 Rxa8+ Rd8 25Rxd8+ Ne8 26Rxf4 g527R gxh4 28Nxc5 with an easy win 23.Qe5 Rxd6; 24.Qxd6Ne4; 25.Qe5 c4; 26.Rd3 a4; 27. Nef6; 28.Nd2 Qcl+; 29.6; 30.f4 c4; 3 l .Rd4 c3; 32.bxc3 a3; 33.g5 a2; 34.Nb3 c3; 35.Qxb3; 36.Rdl dl. hite resigned.

(23) CAPABLANCA SU CAPSSao Pauo, 1927

Capalanca frequenty punished inferior play in the openingHe was never thrown off y unorthodox strategies and appliedsimpe postional concepts to gain a significant advantage Then hewould sweep the powerless opponent off the oard with a potentcomination




l .e4 b6; 2 .d4 Bb7; 3.Bd3 e6; 4.N c5; 5.0-0 cxd4. Transposngnto a very nferor verson of the Scan efense 6.Nxd4 Ne7;7.Nc3 Ng6; 8.Be3 Bc5; 9.Qh5 00; 10.Rad1 Bxd4; ll.Bxd4 Nc6;

12 .Be3 e5. Back's entre handng of the openng s dsastrous Frsthe surrenders the bshop par, and now he eaves hmsef wth ahorrby backward pawn n the dfe

13.Bc4 h8; 14.Rd6 Qe7; 15.Rfd1 Rad8; 16.Bg5 f6.

Back's opposton has been decdedy nferor, but Capabanca'sexpotaton of ths s brant 17.Qxg6 hxg6; 18.R6d3 ; 19.Nd5Qc5; 20.Rh3+ Kg8; 2 l .Nxf6+ 2 gxf6; 22Bxf6 and mate cannot be avoded 22.Rh8+ Ke7; 23.Re8+ Rxe8; 24.Rxd7+ 25.Rx#.

(24) CAPABLANCA · STINRLos Angees, 1933Ths was an exhbton game payed wth ve peces The pay

was aso very vely! Capabanca takes advantage of a structuralweakness n the enemy poston wth bruta ecency

l .e4 e5; 2.N Nc6; 3.Nc3 Nf6; 4.Bb5 Bb4; 5.0-0 0-0; 6 .d3 d6;7 .Bg5 Bxc3; 8.bxc3 Ne7. A weak move Correct s 8 h6; 9Bh4 Bg4as n a game Capabanca Lasker, St Petersburg, 19 14

9.Nh4. Whte' s threat to pay f4 forces Back nto a sad weaken-ng of hs kngsde pawn structure 9 . . . c6; 10 .Bc4 Be6; 1 1 .Bx gxf6;12.Bxe6 e6; 13.Qg4+. After ths astute check, Black's kng s forcedtowards the center and Whte's onsaught runs on oed whees



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13 14.£4 Rg8; 15.Qh5+ 7; 16.e5 dxe5.

Gven slow play y Whte, Black mght stll play . . .Ng6 and survve. owever, Capalanca strkes wth a wnnng comnaton atjst the rght moment. 17.Rxf6 f6; 18.Rfl+ Nf5; 19.N. Aso-lutely precse. The more materalstc 9.ex would allow Black'skng to flee to the queensde. 19 .. . ex; 20.Rxf5+ Ke7; 2 l .Q+

d6; 22.R+ Kc5. If 22 . . .Qxf6 23.Qxf6+ Kd7 24.Qxe5 wth aneasy wn. The text, though, allows Whte to fnsh wth a magnf-cent floursh. 23.Qxb7 Qb6; 24.Rxc6+ Qxc6; 25.Qb4#.



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( 13) CAPABLANCA FNARFF

New ork, 1904

This is a famous example of Capablanca's tactical skill. elivercrushing blows until the enemy must concede the game!

( 14) CAPABLANCA IESESBerin, 1931

The kngside is a little congested Clear up the situation wth acombination!

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( 15 ) CAPABLANCA ASBaceona, 1929

e lack queen s overworked. ow can you eplo s

( 16 ) CAPABLANCA KRBen Speed Game, 1914

We o move o you know your endgames well enoug own s poson



7. ALEN DER ALEKN

Fourth Word Champion (1927-1935 and 19371946)

Alekhine is the most combinative of the World Champions Talmay have been the magician of the sacrifice and several could layclaim to superior tactical prowess but Alekhine was a rare mix ofattacking spirit and confident tactician is games are always partof a chessplayers education e was a creative genius who trustedhis intuition and let it carry him to the supremacy of the chessworld for the better part of two decades

The most instructive aspect of Alekines games is the way inwhich he builds up his position before undertaking any violent action At times he did so in a completely original fashion as in hisexperiments with the hypermodern e4 Nf6 which has since itsdebut been known as the Alekhine efense Even in standard chessopenings he aimed for a strategic undermining of the enemy position

The dominance Alekine held over his nearest rivals was so

great that his superior play gave rise to more than his share ofcombinational possibilities Only decades later would Bobby Fischerachieve a similar stature a rare tradition being carried on now byGarry Kasparov We are fortunate in having such a large and in-structive legacy to draw on

25) TI BadenBaden, 1925

Alekhine considered this game to be one of the finest he everplayed It is a work of profound depth that Alekhine was able tohandle Rti' s radical new opening strategy This is an achievementin itself but the combination is astonishing Yet there is a flawrecently discovered by British Grandmaster John Nunn



ALXA ALH

l.g3 e5; 2.N e4; 3.Nd4 d5; 4.d3 exd3; 5.Qxd3 Nf6; 6.Bg24+; 7.Bd2 Bxd2+; 8.Nxd2 0-0; 9 .c4 Na6. Aekhne has otanedothng speca from the openng, whch makes hs susequent cre-

ation of a rant attack even more mpressve.10.cd5 Nb4; 1 1 .Qc4 Nbxd5; 1 2.N2b3 c6; 13 0-0 Re; 14Rfdg4; 15.Rd2 Qc8; 6.Nc5 Bh3; 17.B Bg4; 18.g2 Bh3; 19.Bg4.

20.Bh1. 20.Bg2 woud have een equa. 20 h5. Wth ths thrusti Aekhne aready foresee hs coup on move 26? 2l b4 a6; 22 .Rc 4; 23.a4 hxg3; 24.hxg3 Qc7; 25.b5 5; 26.b5.

26 Re3!! Threatenng . . .Rxg3+ and 27.fxg3 Qxg3+ foowed y. . .Ne3 s ovousy out of the queston, ut ths s ony the start ofthe comnaton whch winds its ntrcate way for a further four-teen moves. Actuay, as we sha see, ths s more of a drawngcomnaton than a wnnng comnaton, snce Whte had re




sources, some of whch were dscovered only qute recently, thatwere overlooked n the game.

27N Alekhne dsmssed 27.h2 wth 27 . . .Ra3! 28 .fxe3 Nxe3

followed by . . .Nf+ Alekhne gves 27 . . .Bx 28.ex cbx5 29 .Nxb5Qa5 30.Rxd5 Re+ 3 .Rxe Qxe+, butonn Nunn found 32.Kg2Nxd5 33.Qxd5 Ra 34.Qd8+ wth a draw. Ths may reduce thesportng value of the combnaton, but does not detract from tsartstc mpresson. In fact, f we consder the poston aer Whte's26th move to be better for Whte, as would seem to be the casegven the weakness of Black's pawns on the queensde, then the

combnaton was not only justfed, but perhaps necessary!27 . . cxb5; 28.Qxb5 Nc3; 29.Qxb7 Qxb7; 30Nxb7 Nxe2+;312 Ne4! Wth reduced materal, Alekhne contnues to fndbrllant tactcal solutons amed at the capture of Whte' s stray b7knght.

32Rc432 Nx; 33Bg2 Be6; 34Rcc2 Ng4+; 353 Ne5+; 362

Rx; 37Rxe2 Ng4+; 383 Ne3+; 392 Nxc2; 40B Nd4ite resigns 4 .Re3 Nx 42.Rx Bd5! wns. A sublme master-pece, even f the combnaton should only have been good enoughfor a draw.



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(26) EKINE RESEVSKKemeri, 1937

Perhaps ndcatng a sense of humor, Reshevsky adopts the de-

ese named after hs opponent! That doesn't prevent Alekhne payng vgorously, and he challenges Black by sacrfcng aawn n the openng Eventuay the pawn must be returned, andekhne mantans hs postona advantages and bulds on themt create a fne combnaton

l e4 Nf6; 2e5 Nd5; 3 N d6; 4d4 Bg4; 5 c4 5Be2 s less rskye text commts Whte to a pawn sacrfce, unless he prefers to

reease the centra tenson by exchangng on d6 at move sx5 Nb6; 6Be2!? dxe5; 7 Nxe5 Bxe2; 8Qxe2 Qxd4; 90-0

One of the most dffcut operatons to judge n chess s the

sundness of a pawn sacrfce When the opportunty arses to makea heaver materal nvestment, t s normay obvous whether orot there wll be a defnte mnmum compensaton, but wth thepawn sacrfce there s often a thn borderlne between goodchances and fzzng out" The feeng on these matters s extremelydecate and Alekhne was adept at fndng precsely the correctoment for a pawn sacrfce to energze hs own poston

9 N8d7; 10Nxd7 Nxd7? An ogca move whch Aekhne

thoroughly castgated n hs own notes, gvng nstead 0 Qxd7!; a4 Qc6; 2 Na3 e6; 3 a5 Nd7; 4 Nb5 l lNc3 c6; 12 Be3 Qe5;13Radl e6; 14Q 0-0-0 Whte's lead n development madeBlack's poston crtca, hence Reshevsky's decson to return thepawn n the nterests of dereasng the pressure



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15.Bxa7 Qa5; 16.Bd4 Qf5.

7.Qg3. 7.Qx woud have given White a good ending in viewof his queenside pawnmajority, but as Aekhine put it: The finaattack of this game gave much more peasure than a scientificaycorrect, but purey technica expoitation of a pawn majority onthe queenside would do. After a, chess is not ony knowledge and

ogic!"17. . .e5; 18.Be3 Bb4; 19.Na4 Ba5; 20.£4 Bc7; 2l.b3 f6; 22.e5

Qe6; 23.h3.

Here Aekhine has a note we ike very much, a cear indicationof his humorously reaistic quaities as an annotator: A good posi-tiona move which, however, is neither particuary deep nor difficut to find. Its main object is to prevent the possibility of ...g4aer 23 . . .Nxe5 24.Nc5, and also in some other variations the pro-tection of white' s g4 was essentia. We were not a ittle surprised to



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ead all the compliments addressed by the critics to the modesttextmove and also to the questionedin all seriousnessaer thegame was over whether by 23 .h3 I already planned to play my queen

to h2 on the 33rd move."23 Rhg8; 24.Bd4 Nxe5; 25.Qc3.

25. . .Nd7. Covering the weak darksquare complex in the vicin-

ity of his king. If 25 . . .Kb8 26.Nc5 Qd6 27.Qb4 White is clearlybetter. 26.c5. Nailing down the dark squares and also preparing ageneral advance of his queenside pawns against the Black king.26 .. .Rge8; 27.b4. A second pawn sacrifice but Black prefers to defer its acceptance. 27 Nb8. Or 27 . . .Qxa2 28.Ra Qe6 29 .b5 andthe Black king won' t survive the opening of files on the queenside.

28.Nb6+ Bxb6; 29.cxb6 Qa2; 30 .Qg3 Rd7. If 30 . . .Q 3 .Ra !

Rxd4 32.Ra8 Re5 33.Qxe5 and Black is busted. 31.Bc5. Leadingto a beautiful finish. Another neat conclusion would have been3 .Bx gxf6 32 .Rxd7 d7 33 .Qc7+ Ke6 34.Re+ and White wins.

31 . .. Q; 32 .Ral Qg6; 33.Qh2 Re5; 34.Ra8 Rd2.



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Overookng an enchantng combnaton, but f 34 . . .Qe8;35.Qg3! ntendng 36.Qa3 and White wins 35.Rxb8+! Kxb8;36.xe5+! Back esigned, because f the queen s captured, here

s checkmate on the back rank.

(27) IN · BKMagate, 1938

Ths game has stood for many decades as a fne exampe ofcombnatve pay by Aekhne, who sacrfces a pece here. Is t re-ay a combnaton? As thngs turn out, t s fawed, and we w see

that Back mssed a chance to survve. Shoud we therefore toss tout as havng no vaue? Of course not. Athough a sacrfce s df-ferent from a combnaton, n that a sacrfce may or may not forcea matera or postona gan, t s an mportant eement of everycombnaton.

We see here a sacrfce of a knght for the postona consder-aton of a doubepn aganst the bshop at d7. Ths s a use pat-ern to remember.

l.d4 d5; 2.c4 xc4; 3.N N; 4.e3 e6; 5.Bxc4 c5; 6.0-0 a6;7.Qe2 b5; 8.Bb3 Nc6; 9.Nc3 b4; 10.d5 Na5; ll.Ba4+ Bd7; 12.xe6e6; 13.Rdl !?

A compcated poston. Whte not ony offers a pece on c3,but foows wth an exchange sacrfce at d7! 13 .. .bxc3; 14.Rxd7Nxd7; 15.Ne5 Ra7; 16.bxc3. It was dscovered some years ater thatBack may defend successfuy here wth 16. . .Qb8! as 17.Qh5+ of-fers Whte nsuffcent attack, and the attempt to recoup the mate-ra wth 17.Nxd7 Rxd7; 18.Qxa6 fas o 18. . .Qd6! wth the threat



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The way is prepared Aekhine must have had difficuty notbreaking out in a grin when ooking at Back's wayward pieces Theony defender of consequence sits at g6 20Nf5!! Aekhine sacri-fices a knight just to get one pawn out of the way, but that pawn isthe key to Back's defense 20 20 Kg8; 2 Nh6+ Kg7; 22Rgh2and Back is going to take a beating on the hfie

2lexf5 e4 A desperate attempt to get some breathing room,hoping that the knight on b8 can ind its way to e5 22Nxe4 Nbd7;23Bd2 White is prepared for Back's jump to e5 The bishop wishift to c3, bearing down on the ong diagona and pinning theknight So Back tries to cose the diagona down

23 f6; 24Bc3 Ne5

25gx Qf7 If Back had captured the queen, a nasty surprisewoud have been sprung by Aekhine 25 Nx; 26f7+ Ne5;27Rg8# 26gl!!

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The queen is still taboo 26 .. .h6. 26 Nx; 27Rg8+ Qxg8; 28£+g7; 29Bxg7# 27.Bxe5 Rxe5; 28.Rg7. It is an easy win now Aeautiful example of combinative and attack play! 28 .. .Qxg7;9.fxg7+ Rxg7; 30.Rxg7 xg7; 31.£6+. Back resigned.

(29) EE CAPABLANCA

ARO, 1938The AVRO tournament in Holland was one of the greatest tour

aments of the period just before World War II It featured thefinest players of the day, and produced many excellent games Thecontest between Alekhine and Capablanca was especially intriguig, and the players did not disappoint

l.e4 e6; 2.d4 d5; 3.Nd2 Nf6; 4.e5 Nfd7; 5.Bd3 c5; 6.c3 Nc6;

7.Ne2 Qb6; 8 .N cxd4; 9.cxd4 Bb4+; l .Kfl. 0 Bd2 would allowBlack to exchange queens by 0 Bxd2+; Qxd2; Qb4 10 Be7;ll.a3 N; 12.b4 Bd7; 13.Be3 Nd8; 14.Nc3 a5; 15.Na4 Qa7; 6.b5b6; 17.g3 f5; 18.Kg2 N; 19 .Qd2 h6; 20.h4 Nh7; 2 l .h5.




2 1 . . .Nfg5. Better prospects of defense would be afforded y2 1 . . .00; 22.Nh4 Rfc8; 23.Ng6 Bd8 with the possibility, in somvariations, of sacrificing the exchange by . . .Rc4. Even so, by clea

ing the gfile, White would have a dangerous attack. The knight og6 can hardly be ejected by ...Nh8 or .. .N because White mightleave it to be exchanged, subsequently sacrificing the bishop at h6.

22.Nh4 Ne4; 23.Qb2 ; 24. Neg5; 25.g4 g4; 26.Bg6+ g8;27.f4 N. If 27. . .Ne4, 28.Bxe4, and 29.Ng6 wins the exchange.27 . . .N is not immediately fatal, but White again removes the gpawn and places his heavy pieces on the gfile. There is little Black

can do to meet this threat. The combination is now launched.28.Bxh7+ Rxh7; 29 .Ng6 Bd8.

30.Racl. This preparatory move is essential. If he goes for the

knight at once by 30.Kg3 R; 3.g4 Rc4 and Black escapes; or3.Rac, again 3...Rc4 32.Rxc4 dxc4; 33.Kxg4 and the knight isnot even threatened. 30. . .Be8; 3 1 .Kg3 Qf7; 32.xg4 Nh4; 33.Nxh4Qxh5+; 34Kg3 Q; 35.N h5. Bfore White could rply Blacklost by overstepping the time limit. The position is, of course, hope-lessly lost. A most unusual type of combination!

(30) ALIN · FLDT

Tarnopo, 1916Our last example ofAlekhine' s mastery i s an early jewel, played

during the First World War. It seems that, even with the entire worldin an uproar, Alekhine was always able to keep focused on the com-bat at the chessboard. This combination is instructive because itinvolves a sacrifice on a bare square, which makes it all the moresurprising.

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l .e4 e6; 2.d4 d5; 3.Nc3 Nf6; 4.exd5 Nxd5. Unnecessarly comcatng hs openng task 4 exd5 s more sensble 5.Ne4 f5. It steptng to chase Whte's knght but the weaknesses eft n the

ake of ths advance are too serious6.Ng5 Be7; 7.N5 c6; 8.Ne5 0-0; 9.Ng b6; 0 .Bd3 Bb7; .0-

Re; 2.c4 Nf6; 3 .Bf4 Nbd7; 14.Qe2 c5.

Back's poston does not ook so bad, but there are serous prob-es at and e6 that Aekhne exposes n bruta fashon 5.N 6 .Qxe6+ Kg6. 16 e6; 17Ng5# 7.g4 Be4; 8.Nh4#.

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( 17) AL UW

Word Championship, 937

As wth Capabanca It s aso reveang to observe whenAekhne hs great rva exceptonay overooked devastatng combnatons ere n a word champonshp game Aekhne btheydefended hs exposed pawn on b4 What shoud he have payed?

( 18) AL BGLJUBWWarsaw, 1941

A strange stuaton where Whte s a pawn down and has var-ous unts under attack Back's deveopment s n the feta stageand Whte can expot ths to aunch a btzkreg assaut at rst

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sight, though White may win with the prosaic Bxg7 Rg8; 2Bf6c6; 3 Nxc6 Bxc6; 4 Qd6 naiing Back's head to the dark squares ut Bogoubow had ingeniousy prepared for this eventuaity and

oud strike back with 4 Rxg2+; 5xg2 Bxe4+, winning White'sueen Aekhine's soution is more effective and dramatic Find it!

( 19) EINE EEMANUSA, 1924

Back' s back rank is compeetey exposed Aekhine found a wayto bring the game to a rapid concusion What was it?

(2 ) EINE OPOCENSKYPris, 1925

White has many targets on the kingside One key square is g6,but it is not under attack yet How can White open up the gameand get to the target?

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8. M EUWE

Fit Word Cmpion ( 195 197)

To some extent, Euwe is the Rodney Dangeried of World Champions He gets very itte respect when compared to the giants suchas Kasparov, Fischer, and even Aekhine, whom he dethroned itheir 137 match. Indeed, he is better remembered as a proificauthor, and is, by far, the most pubished of the Word Champions His writings are considered among the best on the game, especialy his treatises on the opening and the middegame.

In his Stte and Tactics in Cess, Euwe spent near the entirebook on combinations This makes sense, since combinations arethe culmination of a good strategy combined with tactical accuracy We very much ike his description of the difference betweencombinative and norma situations For a short space of time specia and not genera rues appy; as it were an exceptiona state ofthings prevails ." He aso was the first to divide the study of combinations into three tasks First, the idea of the combination must be

worked out. Then one must correcty evauate the resuts of thecombination Of course the actua cacuation of the variations isthe third component

Among all the Word Champions, Euwe had the best ability tocommunicate the chess content of a game. His writings are superbYet we must not forget that he was aso one of the greatest payersof his time, and he has e us a number of beautifu combinations ,incuding the folowing

( 1) EUWE MAROCAmsterdm (Mtc), 1921

An eary game, in which Marocy's unusua opening strategyeads to a position with a very strong center for White. The controof the center and great ead in deveopent provides the positiona

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asis for White's middegame pay which eads to an opportunityfr sacrificia and combinative pay l.e4 e5; 2.f4 Bc5; 3.N d6;.c3 Bg4; 5.e5 dxe5; 6.Q4+ Bd7; 7 .Qc2 Qe7; 8.d4 exd4; 9.cxd4.

White's center has penty of support and the attack on theishop gains time for deveopment 9 .. .Bb4; 10.Nc3 Bc6. The attempt to use piece pressure to work against the strong center fais

because since the king is sti at e8 Back cannot effectivey use arook on the efie ll.Bd3 Bxc3+? A serious miscacuation Backeeds to attend to deveopment Giving up this usefu bishop fortemporary custody of the epawn was misguided

12.bxc3 Bxe4; 13 .Bxe4 ; 14.0-0! e4. Notice that Back's onydeveoped piece is the queen! 15.Qb3! The weakness of b7 is ex-osed 15 .. .c5; 16.B3 Nf6; 17.Bxc5. Back just doesn' t have time

to take the knight17 . . .Q7; 18.c4 b6. 18 ex; 19Rae+ Kd8; 20Re7 Qxe7;2 Bxe7+ Kxe7; 22 Qxb7+ Nbd7; 23 Qx is an easy win for White

19.Ng5 Qd7.

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The knight at f6 is al that is hoding Back's position togetheWhite eliminates it with a combinative sacifice. 20.Rx6!! 62l.Nxe4. The threat is now Nxf6+. 2l . .. Qe6; 22.Re1 , eestabis

ing the theat and now Back has no usefu defense 22 bxc52.N6+ ; 24.Qb7+. Bc resigned.

(2 ) EUWE EEZuric, 194

A cash of titans which took pace not ong befoe the WordChampionship match saw the tite move fom Alekhine to Euwe

Aekhine adopts an unusua stateg in the Queen's Gambit Declined Euwe an opening theotician fo most of his ife gains apositiona advantage which cuminates in a combination.

l. c4 e6; 2.d4 d5 .Nc 6. Athough this defense is payabe itnegects deveopment somewhat and commits Back to eay moveof his queenside pawns which may later prove inconvenient.

4.cxd5 exd5; 5.B4 N6 6.e Bd6 7 .Bxd6 Qxd6; 8.Bd Nc69.Nge2 0-0 10. Ne7; ll.Qc2 b6 12.b4 Bb7. This bishop is now

dead for some time 1.00 Re8 14.Ng Ng6; 15.Rcl N416.Nce2 c6; 17.Rb1 Re7 18.4 Re8; 19.5.

White's energetic advance forces weaknesses in Back's

queenside 19. . .b5; 20.N4 Rc7 2 l .Qc5 Qd7; 22 .Re1 Ng6 2.B5Qd8; 24.Nd Bc8. Back finay pepares to id himself of his infe-rio bishop but White' s initiative is gowing apace 25.cl Ne726.Bxc8 Nxc8 27 .Ne5 Re6 28.e4. Aekhine was citica of thisadvance since it turns a strategicay overwheming position intoone based on tactics Nevetheess the tactics are of an exception-ally diaboical natue

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28 .. .Nxe4; 29.Nxe4 dxe; 0.Rxe4 6.

.N7!! An astounding move, occupying an empty square inthe middle of the opponents camp. Aekhines previous move hadbeen . . .f6 which shows that he had either underestimated, or over-ooked this coup.

...Qe8. There is no choice. If 3 . . .Rx; 32.Rxe6+ or 3 . . .;

32.5+ Ke7. 32 . . .g6; 33.Qxh7+ K 34.Qh8+ Ke7; 35.Rxe6+)33.Rxe6+ e6; 34.Re+ and Back is mated.

2.Rxe6 Qxe6; .Nd8 Qe4; 4.Nxc6 6.

5.d5. White has won an important pawn by means of his com-bination (the most scientific expoitation of in this coection)and his position is now crushing.

5 . . .Qd; 6. Qd2; 7.g K8; 8.Kg2 Qd; 9. K7;40.Re Qd2; 41.Re8 Qd; 42.Qd4 Qc4; 4.Qe4+ Qe4+; 44.Rxe4Kg8; 45.Nb8 ; 46.Nx6 Rd7; 47.Rd4 Ne7; 48.d6 N5; 49.Rd5

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Nxd6; 50.Nc5 Rd8; 51.Ne4 Nb7; 52.6 Ke6; 5.Rxd8. Bc rsigned.

() GELLER EUWE,Zuric Cndidtes, 195

The great tournament at Zurich 1953 is among the most fa-mous in all of chess The high quality of the games, annotated inthe classic ook y avid Bronstein, led to reakthroughs in opening, middlegame and endgame strategy One of many fine comi-nations from the event is seen in the following game

.d4 Nf6; 2.c4 e6; .Nc Bb4; 4.e c5; 5.. An aggressive variation of the NimzoIndian, and one that was extremely popular withGeller in the 50s, ut we cannot help feeling that it is illogical toforce Black into the douling of White's cpawns We prefer 5Bd3or 5Nge2

5 Bxc+; 6.bxc b6; 7.Bd Bb7; 8. Nc6; 9.Ne2 0-0; 10 .0-0.

10 N5. A good alternative is 10 Rc8 Aer the text, it is clearthat Black will win White's front cpawn, ut at the cost of allowinga storm to urst over his king

.e4 Ne8. Capalanca's defensive maneuver designed to pre-empt the pin (Bg5 ) In addition Black prepares to lockade the

advance of White' s kingside pawns with either h6 or .

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12.Ng cxd4; 1.cxd4 R; 14.4 Nxc4.

15.. Threatening the pwn scriice 16.f6! which would tearlack's kingside to shreds after . . .Nxf6; 17.Bg5, etc. 15 .. .6! ; 16.R4.he attack against Black's h7pawn introduced with this move looksecisive, but subsequent analysis revealed that White would havetained value for the pawn with 16.a4 e5; 17 .d5. Naturally, Geller

culd not be expected to appreciate this in over the board play, there so since uwe's defense is extremely refined.

16. . .b5; 17 .R4 Qb6; 18 .e5.

Black sees that the pawn at d4 is pinned on the diagonal andgrabs the epawn.

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18. . .Nxe5; 19.xe6 Nxd; 20.d.

Qute feebe woud be 20exd7 Rxc ; 2 Rxc Nxc ; 22 dxe8QRxe8; 23 Qxc 20 ...Qxe6. Here Back coud hmself fal vctm toa combnaton: 20 g6; 2 1 Bh6 Ng7; 22 Bxg7 xg7; 23 N+! gx;24Qx Rh8; 25Rg4+ K; 26Qxf6+

21.Qx7+ ; 22.B6.

After 22 Qh5+ g6; 23 Qxb5 Back wins wth 23 Rxc+ and Qe3+ Geler must have fet rather confdent at ths pont n vewof the accumuaton of threats aganst g7 but dd Backs superor

centralzaton eave hm sghtly suspcous?22 ... 8! ! A brant move the key to Backs defensve comb

naton The pont s to decoy Whtes queen from the protecton ofc2 Interestngy Stahberg (n the book of the tournament) gave22 8 a queston mark snce he coud fnd no wn for Back aer24d5!




is terminal! This combination did not come to pass, but Euwe doesnot give up on the idea of the capture at b2

16. . .Rfd8; 17.4 Bb4; 18.N2 B!; 19.Qg3 8; 20.Nc3 Rc8;

2l.Ndl Qc6; 22.g5? White is already suffering, and this movereieves the pain, only by shortening the game!

The stage is set The tremendous pressure on the c and dfile

explodes in a fine combination 22 .. .Nxb2! ; 23 .Nxb2 Qxc2; 24.BdlQxb2; 25.Rxf6 Qxl! 25 gxf6; 26Bxf6+ is a trap that a player ofEuwe's caliber was not ikey to fa into Wite resigned.

(35) EUWE WEENINKAmsterdm, 1923

Euwe was simply devastating in hi s hanlding of unusual open-

ings, as we have already seen There is enother example of a dis-reputable opening being ground into the dust and blown away by abig combination

l.d4 ; 2.e4. Euwe shows his aggression from the start by choos-ing the Staunton Gambit, but his opponent declines the offer andgoes into the weak Balogh Defense, an unorthodox opening of al-most no merit

2 d6; 3.exf5! B; 4.Q Qc8; 5.Bd3 Bxd3; 6.Qxd3. White is

satisfied with the positional advantage which comes from thehealthier pawn structure Euwe buids on this advantage in a con-vincing manner



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6 .. .Nc6; 7.N e6; 8.00 Qd7; 9.c4 000; .R.

Pressure on he efie keeps the Back forces tied down. . . .N;l.Bd2 Re; 12.N Be7; 1.b4 ; 14.b5 Nd8; 15.Nc2 Nh5!Back wakes up o the danger and starts to create some counterpayon the kngside. 16.4 g5!; 17.5 g4; 18.Ng5 d5.

The ime to attack is now! 19 .b6! cxb6; 20.b6 6; 2 .c5! Thereis n stopping the White pawns . Back correcty exchanges at g5 totry to rescue some of the momentum. 2 . . .Bxg5!; 22.Bxg5 Nc6.What now? The queenside seems thoroughy bockaded. Whie has

amos a peces in position for a decisive breakthrough but wh atrue master touch Euwe now brings the other rook ino postion.Ths quaity of invoving the maximum force in an atack is a ha-mark of a srong Grandmaster. 2.Reb 1 ! Qg7? Back starts o crackunder he pressure. 23 . . .e5 was best where White woud have noth-ing beter than capturing the pawn with a compicated posiion.



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Attempts to win by brute force do not succeed, for eample: 24Raba6 25 b7+ Kc7! 2 6Qa6 Q with counterplay against c2 and

4Be3 Kd7; 5Nb4 Nxb4; 6Rxb4 R

The postion seems sufficiently blockaded so that Black can sur-vive even with a somewhat weak king Yet, White breaks throughwith surprising ease, thanks to a combination

7Rxa6! bxa6; 8b7 8; 29Qxa6

As a result of this forced sequence White has a winning gameThere are two main ideas at work here, the advance of the queenside

pawns and direct threats against the enemy king There is an addi-tional resource, however, which Euwe does not fail to spot Thebishop at e3, seemngly asleep, can wake up to provde decisivepressure on the dark squares 9 .. . Qe7. 29 Rfd8 30Qd6+ Ke83 Qe6+ Qe7 32 8+ Q 33Q+ 34 c6 and the pawnsare unstoppable 29 Ke7 30Qd6+ ; 3 c6 and the lady escorts



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The importance of preparation was noted by Fred Reinfed inhis transation of Euwe's game coection pubished as From MyGames 2 . " Euwe some time before this game was

payed set himsef the probem of soving this particuar variationof determining whether White or Back or neither side had thebetter game after the opening moves That this answer cannot pos-siby be refuted must be interpreted as meaning that the sou of themathematician has spoken here" 18.f6! With the rook at c3 underattack this intermezzo came as a bit of a shock 18 .. .g6; 19.Rxc6xe3+. A meaningess pawn eaves the board 0.l Bb7.

It seems as though Black has some counterpressure on the diagonals but his king is too exposed l.Rcxf6 Qe4; .Qd! 8;3.Bxf7 Rac8. Back hopes to get this rook to c2 4.R6! Rd? Acritica error though aer 24 4 ife was in any case unpeasant

5.Qg5!! The queen takes up a powerfu position and sets upthe closing combination 25Bd5 is a theme we wi see ater butright now it woud ose because of the weakness of the back rankaer 25 Rx!

5 . . .Rd6.

Some combinations are hard to see for purey optical reasonsThe pattern of White and Back pieces here are so distinct that

imaginig White's next move is far from easy 6.Bd5!! Back resigned, as there was nothing e after 26 Bxd5 26 Rx oses to27g8# 27Rx+ Bg8; 28Rxg8#



EUWE

( 1) EUWE NAEGELI

Zurich, 1934

A classic case of switching between weaknesseshiting one toge a another. Use all your pieces to achieve a winning posiion

() EUWE NESTLERDubroi, 1950

Can Blacks carapace be cracked open?



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(23) EUWE ROSSEOBuenos Aires, 194 7

The Back kng has very tte room to roam whe the Backkngsde threats are nonexstent St there s no reason to sowdown the pace. On the contrary heat t up and wn qucky!

(24) TACH EUWEAmsterdam, 1923

Back's forces are not drected at Whte's kng but they aren't

sttng around twddng ther thumbs ether. What devastatng bowdd Euwe uneash here?

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9. MIKHAIL BOINNIK

Sth Word Champion (19481957 , 1958 1960, and 196 1 1963)

Botvinnik was the paragon of the Soviet School of Chess Hehad aanced skills was ae to prepare important new openingstrategies handle oth sharp and positional middegames and payefficiently in the middlegame As effective in defense as on attackhe rose to the top of the chess world and stayed there for most ofthe postwar era

The initiative was very important to Botvinnik who loved tocontrol the play whenever possile Indeed to the extent he could

e eaten it was usualy through quiet positions where the greatplayer seemed to ecome ored Since he was at his est in activepositions it is not at all surprising that we see him as the father ofmany great cominations

Botvinnik did not write a great dea aout chess in general Heconcentrated on colections of his own games scrutinized carefully with constant revisions to previous anaysis In fact Botvinnik

claimed that a anyone needed to know aout chess could e geanedfrom studying his games Luckily this attitude has e a large colection of his games availale to schoars and students Here arejust a few of his masterpieces

(37) BOTVINNIK CAPABLANCAAvro, 1938

Beating Capaanca was an achievement that every World Cham-

pion in the first haf of the 0 century achieved and Botvinnikwas the last of a long line to do so though it was ony ten years laterhe earned the tite itsel Capaanca does not play adly and itseems that his opening strateg leads to the win of a pawn Heunderestimated Botvinnik's deep understanding of the positionand a comination puts an excamation point on White's superiorpay




ld4 Nf6; 2c4 e6; 3Nc3 Bb4; 4e3 d5; 5a3 Bxc3+; 6bxc3 c5;7cxd5 exd5; 8Bd3 0-0; 9Ne2 b6; 100-0 Ba6; llBxa6 Nxa6;12Bb2 Qd7; 13 a4 e8; 14Qd3

14 c4 This dooms White's a4pawn, but leaves Botvinnik afree hand in the center

15Qc2 ; 16Rae1 Nc6; 17 Ng3 Na5; 18 Nb3; 19e4 xa4;

20e5 Nd7; 21Q g6; 22£4

22 Black is obliged to weaken himself in order to stem theavalanche Blackburne faced the identical problem



MIKHAIL BOINNIK

23ex Nxf6; 24f5! Rxel ; 25 Rxel Re

26R6! Capablanca seems to have misjudged White s dynamicpossibilities Positionally, the great Cuban is quite OK, but a variety of tactical circumstances, inherent in Whites layout of the game,come to Botvinniks rescue, justifying his abandonment of thequeenside 26 Rxe6 Or 26 . . .; 27Rxf6+ Kxf6; 28fxg6+ Kxg6;

2 Q+ Kg7; 30Nh5+ Kh6; 3 h4 Rg8; 32g4 Qc6; 33 Ba3 and Whitewins

27e6 Kg7; 28Qf4 Qe8; 29Qe5 Qe7

30Ba3!! A brilliant deflection of the Black queen 30 Qxa3;3lNh5+! gxh5; 3Qg5+ 33Qxf6+ Kg8; 34e7 Of courseBotvinnik had to see that there was no perpetual check when heplayed 30Ba3 34 Qcl+; 35 Qc2+; 36 g3 Qd3+; 37h4 Qe4+;38xh5 Qe+; 39h4 Qe4+; 40g4 Qel+; 4l h5 Back resigned



MIKHAIL BOINNIK

13 Re8 This move betrays a fundamentay incorrect attitudetowards the robems of defense. The rook shoud remain for theoment on whie Back concentrates on ... foowed by

. . .Bd6 or .. .Bf6 taking his share of centra command. It seems however that Portisch has devised an ingenious scheme to frustratehite's strategic dispositions on the queenside therefore he is inno hurry to take positive action himsef.

14Rc B; 15Racl

15 8?! Springing his trap now that White cannot retreatBack threatens compete consoidation with 16. . .c6 (after whichBotvinnik's pieces woud a be marooned on absurd squares) andPortisch doubtess beieved that 16 Rxc7 was impossibe since therook coud never escape

In fact after 1 6 .Rxc7 Bc6; 1 7.R7xc6 Nxc6 White has compen-sation for the exchange and the chances woud be balanced. Wasthis the continuation expected by Portisch? Actuay the best forBack at this point woud have been 15. . .e4; 16.dxe4 Bxe4; 17.Rd2though White sti has the upper hand.

16 Rxc7 Bc6 A according to pan but there is a terribe shockcoming. 17 Rlxc6! It ooks insane since the c7rook is sti trappedbut to quote Botvinnik himsef: In reaity this rook has a decisive

part to pay in the attack. By eiminating Back's ightsquared bishophite gains contro of the centra ight squares ."



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17 bxc6

187!! The true point of Botvinnik's comination, and themost majestic orchestration we have ever seen of the ancient themeof the sacrifice against What makes this sacrifice so impressive(apart from the fact that it was competey unexpected) is the ri-iant exposion of cominative energy arising from quiety ogica

strategic pay. (Botvinnik uses pressure on the cile, positiona ex-change sacrifice, and erosion of Back's ight square contro.)

Even the direction of the sacrificia ow is origina, since suchsacrifices against tend to e aimed verticay rather than horizontay. How far we have come from GrecoN.N. or Von der Lasa-Mayet! 18 h6 or 8. . .Kx; 9.Qc4+ Kg6; 20.4+ 2.Ng5+Kg8; 22.Qc4+ Kh8; 23 .N+ and White wins. The point of Black's

8th move is to stop Ng5.197 Qc8; 0Qc4+ Kh8 If Back seeks relief with 20 . . .Qe6then 2.Nxe5 gives White an easy win, with three pawns for theexchange.

1Nh4!! Another riiant stroke, the fina stake in the heart ofBack's ight squares. 1 Qxb7; Ng6+ Kh7; 3 Be4 Bd6 To pre-vent 24.Ne7+ and 25.8 mate, ut in any case he cannot avoid ascintiating finae.



MHAL B

24Nxe5+ g6; 25Bxg6+ Kg7

26xh6+!! Back resigned 26 xh6 27Qh4+ Kg7 28.Qh7+f6 29.Ng4+ Ke6 30.Qx7 and Whte wns. An extraordnarygame for the present tme" s how Botvnnk hmself desced t

(39) BOVIIK ARAKOWER

Nottingham, 1936The great nternatonal tournament n Nottngham s another

of the most famous n chess hstory. It featured a very strong andared feld. ere we have a clash etween the Romantc Schoo,represented y Tartakower, and the new Sovet School n the formof Botvnnk.

l N Nf6; 2c4 d6; 3d4 Nbd7; 4g3 e5; 5Bg2 Be7; 6 0-0 0-0;

7Nc3 c6; 8e4 Qc7; 9h3 Re; 10 Be3



MIKHAIL BOINNIK

Do you see the combination which eads to mate? 27g5+!!g5 28 Bxg5+ Ke6 29 Ng7# 5.Qxh6. The bishop eyes the mateat g5 5 Bxa; 6.Rdl. Back faces the deadly threat of Rd6+6. . .Rad8; 7.Qg5+ Ke6; 8.Rxd8 f6. 28 Rxd8 29Qxd8 and Blackcan resign 9.Rxg8 Nf4. 29 fxg5 30Rxg6+ Kd7 3Rxc6 winseasiy 30.Qg7. Back resigns.

(40) BOTVINNIK BATUYEVLeningrad Championship, 1930

Botvinnik's handing of the isoated dpawn position was su-perb from either side of the board The payer with the isoatedpawn usuay has an initiative and an advantage in space and ma-neuverability Is it any surprise then that such positions were very

appeaing to Botvinnik?l.d4 d5; .c4 e6; 3.Nc3 Nf6; 4.Bg5 Be7; 5.e3 0-0; 6.N Nbd7;7.Bd3 c4; 8.Bxc4 c5; 9.00 cxd4; 10.exd4 Nb6; ll.Bb3 Nbd5;1.Ne5 Nd7; 13 .Bxe7 Nxe7; 14.Qe Nf6; 15.Rfdl b6; 16.Racl Bb7.




This is a typica isoated dawn position in the Queen's Gabit In return for the weak pawn at d4, White has freedom of movement and contro of more space Athough the Black king is pro-

tected by a phaanx of pawns, two knights, and a rook, with onythe White knight in attacking formation, the weakness of the a2g8diagona is more significant than it seems 17 ! R Back shoudhave bockaded the diagona with Ned5

Botvinnik now offers up his ony attacking piece to open up thekey diagona 18Nxf7! Rxf7; 19Qxe6 Q This is the only try19 Ned5; 20Nxd5 Nxd5; 2Bxd5 Bxd5 aows 22Rxc8, expoit-ing the overworked rook

20Ne4 The threat is simpy Rxc8 foowed by Nd6 with a mon-ster fork 20 Rxcl ; 2 lRxcl White threatens to trade everything

at and then fork with Nd6+2 l Nfd5; 22Nd6 Ba8

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MIKHAIL BOINNIK

It ooks as though Back has weathered the storm. Botvinnikow adds the subte crowning point to the combination. 3Re1!g6; 4N Q; 5Qxe7 Back resigned

(41) RGIS BOTVINNIKLeningrad, 1931

When paying against Botvinnik one woud think that it woude a good idea to keep the initiative out of his hands. Chaengerssuch as Vassiy Smysov Mikhai Ta and Tigran Petrosian understood that and were abe to take the tite from him. This game waspayed before Botvinnik was famous. The game begins as a quietRti Opening. Too quiet for the initiative steadiy drifts to Back.The combination ies we into the endgame rewarding Botvinnik'spatience with a poished gem.

l N Nf6; c4 c5; 3 Nc3 b6; 4g3 Bb7; 5Bg d5; 6cxd5 Nxd5;700 e6; b3 Be7; 9Bb 00

Back has a fexibe position and the king seeps safey at g.10Nxd5 Bxd5; lld3 Nd7; 1Qc R; 13Rae1 b5; 14e4 Bb7;15 Nd Nb! This knight is ony temporariy in retreat. It is headedfor d4 via c6.

16£4 Nc6; 17a3 Qd7; 1Nf Rfd; 19Rd1 Ba6; 0Bal

White's passive pay has conceded the initiative to Back. 0 b4!;la4 Nd4 2 . . .Bxd3? ; 22.Qb2 Bf6; 23 .e5 Be7; 24.Ne woud be adisaster for Back.




22Qb2 Bf6; 23e5 Be7; 24Nxd4 cxd4; 25Qe2 Rc5; 26Bb2 f;27h4

Here Botvnnk uses a sacrfce whch s based on longternvestment. The combnaton comes later. 27 Rc3! ; 28Bxc3 dxc3;29Qe3 Bxd3 29 . . . Qc7; 30. Rd4! would have been stronger accordng to Botvnnk because of the atent threat of Bc5. The a7

g dagonal pays a very sgnfcant roe n ths game.30 Qd4; 3lQxd4 Rxd4; 32Bfl 32.B Bc5; 33.Kg2 c;

34 .Rc would have led to the same sort of combnaton as the game.32 c2; 33Rcl Whte cannot capture: 33.Rxc2? Bxc2; 34.Rxd4 Bc5and the pn wns.

33 Bxfl ; 34Rcxfl

Back would wn on ether other capture though not as spectacuarly. 34 .xf Rd + wns at least a rook. 34 .Rfxf Rd2 sets upthe threat of . . . Bc5 after whch the bshop can work ts way to d2 .



MAIL B

35.e Bc5+; 36. Bd4 and b2 is the next stop. 34 Rc4!! Blackffers up a whole rook to create the juggernaut of passed pawnsn the sth and seventh rank. The two rooks are no match for the

ishop and pair of pawns ! 35.bxc4. 35 .Rc Bc5; 36. Bx; 37.xc3 is a winning endgame for Black.

35 Bc5; 36.Kg Bx; 37. b3.

ite resigned. Working together the two pawns were too muchfor the rook.

(4) BOTVIIK PADEVSKYMonte Caro, 1968

Botvinnik was able to turn normally uiet flank games into tac-tical brawls usually landing all the punches himself. ere he trans

forms the center and opens up lines for the kingside attack.l.N Nf6; .c4 e6; 3.g3 d5; 4.Bg Be7; 5.00 00; 6.d4 d7;7.b3 b6; 8 .Bb Bb7; 9.cxd5 exd5; .Nc3 Re8.



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Many payers might quiety move a rook here ut Botvinniwants to contro the center so that kingside operations can e activated. llNe5 Bd6; 1f4 Ne4; 13Nxe4 xe4; 14e3 The future of

the attack is promising since Back's ishop at 7 and rook at a8cannot participate in the defense

14 Nf6; 15a3 c5 Black tries to gain space on the queensideut this aows the ishop at 2 to take a arger roe in the game16Qe cxd4; 17Bxd4 Qe7; 18b4! White needs to keep an eye onthe queenside too

18 a5; 19b5 Bxe5; 0Bxe5

Now the White kingside attack can proceed y advancng the f-pawn to f6 0 Nd7; lBd4 Nc5; f5 Nd7 Black could try tostop White's plan with 22 f6 ut then 23 Qc4+ Kh8 24.Bxc5 wins

3f6!



MHAL BONN

23. . .Qe6. 23 Nxf6; 24Rxf6! gxf6; 25g4+ K; 26Qh4 Qd6;27Qxh7 is great for White because the threat of is intense23 gxf6; 24g4+ Kh8 (24 K; 25Qh4 also wins) 25Rxf6! is

aother spectacular win After 25 Nxf6; 26Rf the game is over24.Qh5 Ne5. 24 gxf6; 25Bh3 Qd6; 26Bxd7 Qxd7; 27Bxf6ad Back can resign 24 Nxf6; 25Rxf6 is given by Botvinnik with-t further comment but the win is not easy 25 gxf6; 26Bh3d6; 27B K; 28Qxh7 Bd5; 29Rf White can now target ei-ther the pawn at f6 with Qh4 or the one at e4 via 4 255 Ng625 g6 lets the queen infiltrate at h6 25 N+; 26Bx ex; 27g5also wins 26.g7.

White has a cute threat which his opponent allows to be displayed 26 . . .Rad8. 26 Ne7; 27Rf6 Qd5; 28g4 White will finally

harvest the pawn at b6 or can continue to go after , with anoverwhelming advantage in either case 27.Qxh7+. Back resied,as 27 h7; 28Rh5+ Kg8; 29Rh8+ xh8; 30gxh8Q# is check-mate




T (25) BOTVII · ERES

Word Championship, The Hague, 1948

The king is we defended and there is ony a rook attackingHow do you continue the onsaught and bring quick victory forWhite?

(26) STOLBERG · BOTV ISoviet Championship, 1940

Back's forces are concentrated on the queenside and on theseventh rank, but the winning bow takes pace far away. Open thenecessary ines to finish the game with a fourish!



MIKHAIL BOINNK

GOGLIDZE BOTVINNIKMoscow, 1935

There's noody at home! Time to invade!

LIENTH BOTVINNIKMoscow, 1941

Black can force the win of a second pawn, which is enough toring aout a decisive advantage. How is this accomplished?



1 0. VASSIY SMYSLOV

Seventh Word Champion (1957 1958)

Smysov presents quite a contrast to his predecessor Instead ofstriving impatienty for the initiative, Smysov became the masterof the art of maneuvering He strove to coordinate his pieces at atimes, in the opening, the middegame, and the endgame Manyopening variations bear his name, in the Spanish Game, G nfedDefense, King's Indian Defense, Sav Defense and many other openings

The endgame was of particuar interest to Smysov He is the

coauthor of a famous treatise on rook and pawn endgames Hisrecent book, Endgame Virtuoso, is we deserving of its tite Sti, hewas abe to spot briiant combinations when opportunities arose

In a Smysovian combination, the groundwork is aid by thorough preparation Pieces are steathiy maneuvered into position,often seeming to be aimed at some irreevant goa Sometimes, theposition expodes into a fierce, but brief, batte before the oppo-

nent ays down his arms In other cases, a combination eads to awinning endgame Smysov' s sacrifices are based on an evauationof the positiona vaue of the pieces, and the resuts of his combinations must take into account the positiona vaue of the pieces aswe as their nomina vaues

(43) SMYSLOV GEEBENMoscow Budapest, 1949

Being fond of coordination does not mean that gambit pay isout of the question On the contrary, in gambits the exceent coordination of pieces contributes heaviy to the compensation for thesacrificed materia The opening of this game is known as the Fantasy Variation, and, especiay when it eads to a gambit, as here,has ed to some fantastic games!



VASSILY SMYSLOV

e4 c6; d4 d5; 3 The fantasy begns wth ths move 3 e6;4Be3 dxe4; 5Nd e; 6N Nf6; 7Nc4 Nd5; 8Bd Be7;9Bd3

Black has accepted the gambt whch means that accurate defense s requred 9 Bh4+? A crtcal mstake The check achevesnothng more than a loss of tme 9 Bf6 s the most logcal move

and Black has a sod poston Stl Whte has suffcent compensaton for the pawn

10g3 B; Qe a5; 1a3 0-0

13 h4! Be7 3 Nd7 fals for the classc combnaton 4 Bh7+! !h7; 5Ng5+ Bg5; 6hg5+ Kg8; 7Qh5 and ite wins14Ng5 Now the sacrfce would fal 4 Bh7+ h7; 5 Ng5+ Kg8;6Qh5 Nf6 and Black defends 14 N; 15Ne5 b5 5 Qd4 gvesWhte a strong attack aer 6 Bc3 ! Qc5; 7Rf h6 where the sacr-fce of the rook at f6 works just as wel as n the game 8Rf6 ! !



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White is in charge, as the foowing variations show: 8 . . .Bxf6;9.Ne4. 9.Qe4 g6; 20.Bd4 Qd6; 2.Nex Rx£; 22.Qxg6+ Rg7;23.Qx s a win for Whte. 8. . .Kg7 loses spectacularly to 9.Qxh6+! !The capture with the pawn is no better: 8. . .gxf6; 9.Ne4 g+;20.Kd2 Qxa ; 2 .4+ Kh8; 22 .Nxf6 Bxf6; 23.Qe4 and Black can-not avod mate ! )

But that is not how the game went. Instead Back has advancedthe bpawn, and then the tension rose with

16Rfl h6

17 Rxf6! Black avoided ths earler, but now it s nevtable. Thecombnaton forces the wn. 17 f6 7. . .Bxf6; 8.Bh7+ Kh8;9.Nex+ Rx£; 20.Nx+ Kxh7; 2.Qd3+ Kg8; 22.Nxd8 Bxd8;23.g6 is a winnng position for Whte.

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VASSLY SMYSLOV

18.Qh5 g5; 19.h6.

The winning procedure is simpy a matter of opening the hfie.Back's pieces are in no position to defend the king. 19 ; 0.Qg6+h8; 1.g5 Bxa3; .Ke Qd5; 3.N 1-0.

(44) BOTVINNIK SMYSLOV

Wod Championship , 1954Athough Botvinnik won this first Word Championship match

Smysov got a few good shots in. This game invoves oth a posi-tiona sacrifice and a nice comination an exampe of Smysov athis est.

1. d4 Nf6; .c4 g6; 3.g3 Bg7; 4.Bg 00; 5.Nc3 d6; 6 .N d7;7.0-0 e5; 8.e4 c6; 9.Be3 Ng4; 10.Bg5 Qb6; ll.h3 exd4!; 1.Na4

Qa6; 13.xg4 b5; 14.Nxd4 bxa4; 15.Nxc6 Qxc6.



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White now uses a simpe tactic to win the exchange but Smysohad taken this into account. This is not a comination becausWhite coud have chosen other pans instead. 16e5 Qc4; 17 Bxa8

Nxe5 Black has more than enough compensation. Just ook at thepawn at g4 the passed dpawn and the general weakness of theight squares. 18Rcl Qb4; 19a3 Qxb; 0Qxa4 Bb7; 1Rbl2.Bxb7 Qxb7; 22.Rc3 h6; 23.Bf4 N+; 24.Rx Qx; 25.Bxd6Rd8; 26.Bc5 woud have been roughy eve according to Smyso.

1 N+! The combined force of the knight and bishop at b7give a high potency to this attack.

l

Bxa8! Smysov parts with the queen but gets a winningposition as a resut. This is a combination in the sense that White's

reply is forced.3Rxb Nxg5+; 4 N+; 53 Bxb; 6Qxa7 Be4



VASSILY SMYSLOV

Black's hree minor pieces are more han a mach for he king.27a4 Kg7; 28Rdl Be5; 29 Qe7 R; 30a5 Rc2 Whie is aackingwih jus a lone queen bu all four of Black's pieces are paricipa

ing. 3 1Kg Nd4+; 32l B; 33l Nc6 hite resigned Black'spieces are beauifully coordinaed and he primary hrea is . . .Bd4.

(45) SMYSLOV BOTVINNIKWord Championship, Mosow, 1954

I is very rare ha a player will leave he king in he cener in aWorld Championship mach! This is a dangerous sraegy espe-cially for Black. Alhough he srong pawn structure in he cenerin he French efense would seem o afford sufficien proecionSmyslov shows ha no o be he case.

l e4 e6; 2d4 d5; 3Nc3 Bb4; 4e5 c5; 5a3 Ba5 Normally Blackcapures a c3 bu his rerea leads o complications wih a veryunbalanced pawn strucure.

6b4 cxd4; 7Qg4 Ne7; 8bxa5 dxc3

Whie' s queenside pawns are very weak and he pawn a c3 isan annoyance bu Whie wil pick up g7 and h7 and have an ouside passed pawn. 9Qxg7 Rg8; 10Qxh7 Nd7?! This knigh belongs on c6 . Now Whie will execue a very simple plan advance

he hpawn unil i becomes a queen! Of course he will have o becareful in he execuion of he sraegy.

llN N Bovinnik proposed ...Qc7 as an improvemenbu Smyslov correcly poins ou ha Whie has a srong reply.. .Qc7; 12.Bb5! For example 12. . .Rxg2?!; 3.Kf Rg8; 14.RgRxg+; 15.g and he pin makes it very hard for Black o develop.



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1Qd3 Qxa5; 13h4 Here we go! It turns out that Back's pawnat c3 just gets in the way. 13 Bd7; 14Bg5! Back is prevented frocastling, and the contro of the h4d8 diagona keeps Back pinned

down. Smysov defty expoits this fact and his hpawn. 14 Rc8;15Nd4! Back was going to try and wigge out using Rc8c4e4+and the placement of a knight at . This stops oth plans.

15 Nf5

Now White does not want to capture immediatey, ecause theN woud occupy te new hoe at e6. But how to answer the threatofNxd4 and B5? 16 l! Rc4?! Smysov considers 6. . .6 est,ut it is hard to ame Botvinnik, for what foows is truy inspired.

17Nxf5 e; 18Rxb7 Re4+

The weakness of the ack rank is fata. The comination is asedon the correct evaluation of the endgame. 19 Qxe4! ! xe4; 08+Bc8; 1 Bb5+ Qxb5 2 . . .Nd7; 22.Rxc8+.



VASSILY SMYSLOV

22.Rxb5.

Smysov appreciaed hat he hpawn is a juggernau which canno e sopped. 22 . . .Ne6; 23.Bf6 Rxg2; 24.h5 Ba6; 25.h6! I is onyfiing ha he pawn has he fina say. Aer he ishop capureshe rook here is no way o sop he pawn from queening. Backresigned.

( 46) GELLER · SMYSLOVMoscow USSR, 1965

Word Champions someimes find hemseves on he wrong endof a riian cominaion as we have aready seen. ere YefimGeer ofen a candidae for he Word Championship himsefhands ou a esson in cominaive echnique.

l.d4 N£6; 2.c4 g6; 3.Nc3 d5; 4.cxd5 Nxd5; 5.e4 Nxc3; 6.bxc3Bg7; 7.Bc4 c5; 8.Ne2 0-0; 9.0-0 Nc6; 10.Be3 Qc7. Smysov' s ownvariaion which pans o omard Whie's pawncener wih pres-sure from he Back pieces especiay he g7ishop. lRc Rd8;12.£4 e6; 13.h1 b6? An inaccuracy which coss Smysov deary.Correc is 1 3 . . .Na5 ! ; 14.Bd3 resraining Whie' s kingside expansion.

14f5 Na5; 15Bd3 exf5; 16.ex Bb7; 17Qd2 Re8; 18 Ng3 Qc6;

19.R Rad8. Inadequae is he hemaic cominaion" 19 . . .Rxe3;20 .Qxe3 cxd4; 21 .cxd4 Bxd4; 22 .Qf4! c +; 23.Qxc Bx; 24.Qh6and White wins



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20Bh6

20 Bh8 The egnnng of a sad career for Black's amtoush8shop. The dark squares around hs kng (f6/h6) are lookngomnously exposed. 2 1 Qf4 Rd7; 22Ne4 c4 Not 22 . . .Rxe4 23.Bxe4Qxe4 24 .Q8+. 23Bc2 Rde7; 24Rcfl! R4 Fallng n th Geller'sntentons whch comprse a comnaton of rare eauty. Wthout

ths capture however Back woud have no defense aganst Whte'sthreat to open the flood gates of the ffle.

25g6! ! If 25 . . .Rxf4 26.gxh7# or 25 . . .Qxg6 26.Qx+ Qx27 .Rx Re to prevent mate on £, 28.Bxh7#. 26Qg5! Qd7 Onceagan mate on looms f Black captures the queen.



VASSILY SMYSLOV

27.gl!! A very deep move, Back is paced in a kind of sus-pended animation, but that is not the soe point, as we shal see.

27 ...Bg7; 28.Rxf6 Rg4.

The alternative 28 . . .Bxf6 reveas the profundity of Geler's 27thmove: 29.Qxf6 hxg6; 30.Qxg6+ Kh8; 3.Bg5 R4e6; 32.Bf6+ Rxf6;33.Rxf6 and Back is defenseess, precisey because he can derive

no profit from 33 . . .Re+.29.gxh7+ h8; 30.Bxg7+ Qxg7; 31.Qxg4! 3...Qxg4; 32.R+

finito. Geler sacrificed his queen no ess than four times, yet shesurvived to see Black' s resignation. 10.

47) SMYSLOV LIBERZONMoscow, 1969

Smysov understood the fianchetto postion we. When he usedit, he was rarey wiing to surrender his fianchettoed bishop, andwoud sometimes even sacrfce material to preserve it. In ths game,hs opponent undervalues the piece and lets t leave the board. Theweakness of the dark squares enabes the powerfu combnationwhich eads to a win for Smysov.




lc4 g6; 2Nc3 Bg7; 3d4 Nf6; 4.Bg5 c5; 5.e3 cxd4; 6.exd4 d5.

The game has transposed from the English Opening to thePanov Attack The same position could have arisen on e4 c6; 2d4d5; 3exd5 cxd5; 4c4 Nf6; 5Nc3 g6; 6Bg5 Bg7 White can win apawn here, and indeed the simpe 7cxd5 is more oen met bycastling and regaining the pawn ater, rather than the immediate

capture with the knight7B: B:; 8cxd5 0-0; 9N Nd7; 10 Bc4 Nb6; l l Bb3 Bg4;

12.0-0 R; 13.Rel

Black now decides to regain the pawn and work on the cfile Todo so, he must part with his pride and joy, the dark squared bishop That is too high a price! 13 Bx; 14Qx Bxd4; 15Radl Bxc3;16.bxc3 Qd6; 17h4 Naturay White decides to attack the weakened kingside 17 . h5; 18Rd4 Kg7; 19Rf4 Rc7; 20Re6 Qd8;2lRe3 Qd6 Black is defending wel, and White must find anotherstrategy




(4) LMANN SMYSLOVMoscow, 1971

l c4 Nf6; Nc3 e6; 3 N b6; 4g3 Bb7; 5Bg Be7; 60-0 0-0;

7 d4 Ne4; Bd d5; 9cxd5 exd5

The resut of the openng s a quet varaton of the Queen'sIndan efense. Back has a comfortabe game and can quckly go

to work on the center by advancng the cpawn to c5. Back wobtan a queensde pawn majorty whch can be usefu n theendgame

lRcl Nd7; llBf4 c5; 1xc5 Nxc3; 13bxc3 Nxc5; 14Be5Re; 15Rel Ne4; 16Qa4 a6; 17c4 Bc5; 1e3 xc4; 19 Qxc4 R;0Qe Back has acheved beautfu coordnaton of hs pecesand Whte's seem to ack purpose It s cear that the Back army s

more deservng of the ntatve. There are obstaces to be over-come however.

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VASSILY SMYSLOV

Whte's kng s welldefended Black must somehow try to cracktrough the barrer A combnaton fres up the attack and scorchesenemy terrtory 0 Nx!!; lQ Bx Now f Whte recap

tures at the bshop at e5 falls So nstead Whte counterattacksthe enemy rook at c8Bh3 Rxe5; 3Bxc8 Bc6

Whte has an extra exchange for a pawn but nothng to attackBlack's bshops rake the kngsde from a safe dstance and aretherefore very dangerous 4Bh3 24Bxa6 would lose nstantly to24 Qd5! 4 Qe8; 5Bg

Whte tres to exchange bshops elmnatng threats on the lghtsquares Smyslov has eyes for the dark squares however 5 R3!;6hl 26 Bxc6 Rxe +; 27Rxe Qxe + wins everythng 6 Bxg+;7xg Qe4+ Smyslov returns to the lght squares to clean up8h3 Qe6+; 9Kg Qd5+; 30h3 Re6 White resigned




E (9) SMYSLOV · HBNER

Candidates' Match, 1983

Ths one sn' t easy It takes many moves to fnsh Black off butSmyslov found the key moves and so can you!

(30) SMYSLOV DONNERHavana, 1966

Whte would love to play Nc6 forkng a5 and e7 but that sn' tpossble yet



VASSIL SMSLOV

( 1) SMYSLOV FLOHRSoviet Championship, 1949

Mating combinations in the endgame? Why not!

(2) SMYSLOV KOAUERMoscow, 1948

White can expoit Back's unwise reuctance to get casted. How?



1 1 . MIKHAI TA

Eighth Word Champion ( 1960 196 1)

The Magician," Mikhai Ta, was the most popuar of WordChampions His attacking stye and combinationa genius was ondispay throughout his career He had a passion for attack, and ovedto have his creative facuties tested in batte He deighted in finding a ong forcing variation, even in a postmortem anaysis session

He described the making of combinations as a process whichstarts with a carefu study of the position This provides the necessary associations on which concrete cacuations can be made Before calculating, however, the master assembes some target positions , without worrying about whether or not they can be reachedThese target positions are triggered during the cacuating process Cacuation of forced variations eads to one of the target positions,and the goa is achieved

One coud easiy fi an entire book with Ta's combinationsHundreds can be found in the massive fourvoume coection of

his games pubished by Chess Stars, though any book containingTa's games is a sheer deight, since the moves speak for themsevesWe have seected a few of our favorites, which are typica of hisstye

(49) T · ZEIDRiga Soviet Latvia, 1952

Even as a young man, Ta had a fair for combinations, Ta sac-rifices a pawn in the opening, which eventuay aows him to create a weakness in the enemy position

l. d4 c6; 2 .c4 d5; 3.N Nf6; 4.Nc3 c4; 5.e4!? The usua moveis 5a4, but the gambit offered by Ta can grant formidabe attacking chances 5 ... b5; 6.e5 Nd5; 7 .a4 Nxc3? Inaccurate It is better toprecede this capture with 7 e6 8 axb5 Nxc3 bxc3 cxb5 and



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ack's c8ishop enjoys untrouled freedom of action. As played,that ishop ecomes litte more than a spectator. 8bxc3 a6; 9BeImmediate aggression with 9.Ng5 also deserved consideration.

9 Bb7; 10Ng5 h6; llNe4 e6; 1Ba3

A ogica weakening of the opponent' s dark squares in order toenhance the power of White's centraized Knight. 1 Bxa3;

13Rxa3 0-0; 140-0 Nd7; 15 £4 Qe7; 16Ra1 Nb6? This irrelevantpawn hunt reminds me of one of the eary nineteenthcentury defensive" methods . Back had to challenge White' s concentration offorce on the kingside y means of 16. . . ! White woud still have agreat game after 17 .Nd6, ut coud offer some resistance. 6 . . .c5on the other hand, woud e useess aer 17.Nd6 Bd5; 18..

17Qd Nxa4; 18£5 ex£5

19Nf6+! The idea of this type of sacrifice is that its acceptancecreates a column of useess Back pawns on the fle, causing a



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traffcam for any peces that seek to defend the kng19 h8 Or 9 gxf6; 20Qxh6 fxe5; 2R f4; 22Rh3 f6;

23Qh8+ ; 24Rh7+ and White wins 0R d8; l Rafl Bc8;

h5 Another sacrfce s comng ths tme on h6 Q; 3Rf4 Nxc; 4h4 Nxe+

5 A t of humor on the chessoard The kng strolls out

nto the open countng on the rook to capture the pawn at h6quckly and end the game Back has an extra pece and three pawnsut there s no defense 5 g5; 6Rxh6+ Qxh6; 7Rxh6+ Kg7;8Qxg5+ ; 9Rh8+ Back resigned

50) GURGENIDZE TMoscow, 1957

The Benon was one of Ta's favorte openngs It was one ofthe most popular and aggressve defensve systems aganst the d-pawn openngs n modern tournament practce though t s nowconsdered a t suspect A close reatve s the sophstcated Benko(counter) Gamt 3 5!? whch aso seeks to gan the ntatvefor Back rather than merey equalze Ths game shows a typcaBenon strategy for Back one whch s amed at creatng the cr-cumstances for a vcous comnaton



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14 Nx! ; 15 Qh4+; 16Kfl Bd4; 1 7Ndl

17 Qxh3! The move Gurgenidze had not seen. 8.gxh3 Bxh3is mate, and, with Black's queen on h3, White's defenses have eencompletely shattered. 18B Qh; 19Ne3 ; 0Ndc4 e4; 1 Bxe4Ba6; B Re5; 3Ra3 Rae8; 4Bd Nxd5 A fresh acquisition.White evidently cannot capture twice on d5 and his position now

collapses. 5Bxd5+ Rxd5; 6Ke Bxe3; 7Rxe3 Bxc4+ Whiteresigned

(5 1) T POLUGAYEVSKY,iisi, 1959

Tal may not have invented the sacrifice at e6 in the Sicilianefense, ut he certainly was one of its eading exonents. The

demolition of the center is a preude to a mopping up of the weak-ened defenders, and then a simple assault on the enemy king erethe pursuit continues even into the endgame.

l e4 c5; N d6; 3d4 d4; 4Nxd4 N; 5Nc3 a6; 6 Bg5 Nbd7;7Bc4 Qa5! An improvement on KeresSajtar, Amsterdam Olympiad, 954 where 7 . . .e6?! was played. 8Qd e6; 90-0 Be7; lRadlNc5?! Stronger is 0 . .h6 intending ...g5, trying to dominate thecentral dark squares.



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llel Bd7; 12a3 Qc7; 13b4 Na4; 14Nxa4 Bxa4

Now we see a very typica tactica maneuver in the Siciian Defense 15Bxe6! e6; 16Nxe6 c2; 17Qd4 18Rcl Qa2 Backcoud aso surrender the queen (which is often the outcome for thedefender against a sacrificia combination) but to no avail: 18 e6;1 Rxc2 Bxc2; 20Qc4 with a win for White Or 18 Qxc ; 1 Rxc

e6; 20 Rc7 and ite wins19e5!? White has a second method of sacrificing his knight

1Nxg7 xg7; 20 Bxf6 Bxf6; 2 Rc7 Kg6; 22Qxd6, which grantshim an even more vehement attack than the text 19 dxe5 A bet-ter defense is 1 Qxe6; 20exf6 Bxf6; 2 Bxf6 Rhc8 ! though Backis sti much worse after 22 Bxg7 Rxc ; 23 Rxc

20Qxe5

20 Qxf2+ Back uses a itte combination to go into anendgame, but it is vasty favorabe to White since Back's king can



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find no sheter l.Kxf Ng4+; .Kgl Nxe5; 3.Rxe5 Bxg5;4.Nxg5+ Kg6; 5.Ne6 e8; 6.Re3 Rac8; 7.Rfl Bb5; 8.Rg3h6; 9.Nxg7. White has a pawn, and the better attacking chances

9 R 29 Bxf; 30Nxe8 R ooks strong, but, after thesimpe 3Nd6 there is no use discovered check 30.Rel Rf6;31.h3 Rc? 3 Bd7; 32Kh2 Rc2; 33Re5 Rg6; 34Nf5+ Bxf5;35 Rx i s not won yet, but Back is in bad shape in either singerook or doube rook endgames 3.Re4 Rc4; 33.Re5 R+; 34.h.Back resigned.

(5)POLUGAYEVSKY TMoscow, 1969

Very few payers coud outcacuate Ta, who aunched morecombinations than he fe for, but here is an exception Ta was nogeneray known as an opening theortician, but he did have anintense interest in sharp ines where there were abundant opportu-nities for combinations

In this game, the great opening expert Lev Pougayevsky took

advantage of this to gain revenge, perhaps, from his defeat a de-cade earier which we saw in the previous game Ta's 13th movewas panned as an improvement on Petrosian's handing of the position, but it seems that Pougayevsky was fuy prepared to meet itIn fact, we cannot suppress the suspicion that Pougayevsky hadworked out his entire combination in pregame anaysis

l .c4 Nf6; .Nc3 e6; 3.N d5; 4.d4 c5; 5.cxd5 Nxd5; 6.e4 Nxc3;

7.bxc3 cxd4; 8.cxd4 Bb4+.

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A simplification is useful to Black Black should e ale to sur-ount the tactical difficulties caused y White's central predomi-ance and kingside threats and that his queenside pawn majority

should then offer him good chances for the ending In practiceowever Black often falls victim to a sudden raid9Bd Bxd+; 10Qxd 0-0; llBc4 Nc6; 10-0 b6; 13Radl

a5 This variation had ecome popular as a result of the interestig 5th match game etween Spassky and Petrosian played earlierin 1969 which continued 13 B7; 14Rfe Rc8; 5d5 exd5;16Bxd5 Na5; 1 7 Qf4! White had a much etter game

14Bd3 Bb7; 15Rfel R; 16d5

16 exd5 An inspired defensive idea here is the queen sacri-fice" suggested y Matsukevich 16 Qd6; 17e5 Qxd5; 8Qf4 h6;

19 Bh7+ Kxh7; 20 Rxd5 Bxd5 when Black has a very solid positionand has also effected an important simplification17e5! Black's kingside now suffers from a fearful cramp

17 Nc4 This turns out to e inferior ut 17 Qe7; 1 8Nd4 with aetter game for White

18Qf4 Nb Losing y force ut if 18 h6; 19 Q g6; 204(threatening Bxg6) followed y e5e6 19Bxh7+! An oldfashionedsacrifice in a modern setting Against the est defense White can-

not force mate ut simply reaches a (materially) level ending19 xh7; 0Ng5+ 6 Not 20 Kg8; 2 Qh4 Re8; 22e6 and itewins



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1h4!

1 Rc4! An excellent defense which avoids two spectacular conclusions 2. . .Nxd; 22.h5+ Kxh5; 23.g4+ K6; 24.Qh2+ Kxg5;25.Qh5+ Kf4; 26.Qf5#. 2...8; 22.Qx+ K6; 23.Qe6+ Kh5;24 .g4+ xh4; 25.N+ Kh3; 26.g5#. Note that Black defends activey,not y seizing even more material. h5+ h6; 3Nxf7+ h7;

4Qf5+ 8; 5e6, with the terrile threat of 26 .h6, ut Tal stillcontinues to find ways out.

5 Qf6!

6f6 6; 7Rd Attacking the knight and also intendingNd6, so White regains his piece. 7 Rc6; 8Rxb Re; 9Nh6+h7; 30Nf5 Rcxe6 3lRxe6 Rxe6; 3Rc Rc6; 33Re



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t white such situations 10 Nxb5 Ne4; 1 1 0-0 a6; 1 Na3?! FeebeWhite shoud return the pawn with 12Nc3! Nxc3 13bxc3 Bxc34 Rb 1 Ra7; 13Bd3 Re7; 14Nc Rfe8; 15Re Nd7; 16Ne3

Nd; 17Qc Nh5; 18g3 Bd4! An origina idea Black is preparedto exchange his bishop in order to increase his contro of e3

19Nxd4 cxd4; 0Ng

0 Ng5! ne petite combinaison" Rxe7 Nh3+; KfRxe7! Most payers woud have recaptured with the queen but seeTa's 25th

3Bd Nf6; 4Nh4 Ng4; 5N Re3!

The fireworks are just beginning! 6Kg The rook is taboobecause on Bxe3 Back repies Nxe3+ winning the enemy queen26 Nxd4 eads to a spectacuar ine 26 Nxf4 27gxf4 Qh4 28BeNxh2+ 29Kg Qxf4 30Qxh2 Qxd4 3B 4+ 32g2 Rxd333Qxg4 Bxg4 and the three connected passed pawns will prove



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t much fr White 26 .. .Qe7; 27.Rel. Now we see a variation on ateme seen in the previous note 27 ...Nxf4+! ; 28.f4 e1; 29.Nxe1h4; 30.Bcl He has t defend 30 Qxe1; 3 1 h3 Nh6 Back is

inning nw 32.£5 Nxf5; 33Bf4 Nh4+; 34.Kh2 N3+; 35.Kg2xh3+! 36 Qgl. 37Bxg6 4+; 38K Qxf4+; 39Kg hxg6hite resigned.

(54) BOTTELL TEuropean Team Championship, 1973

Ta won the briiancy prie fr the foowing game, but theinning combination came about as a resut of adjournment anay-sis by Ta and the Soviet team, athugh this fact des not excudethe pssibiity that he wud have seen the cmbination even withut adjourning The first part f the game is unremarkabe, but isrth paying through t see hw the critica psitin came about

l.e4 c5; 2.N e6; 3.Nc3 a6; 4d4 cxd4; 5.Nxd4 Qc7; 6Bd3N£6; 7.0-0 Nc6; 8Nb3 b5; 9.Bg5 Be7; 10Qe2 Bb7; llRae1 d6;12.a3 b4; 13.axb4 Nxb4; 14.Ra1 00; 15.Na5 Bc8; 16Bc4 Rb8;

17.£4 d5; 18.e5 Bc5+; 19.h1 Nd7; 20.Bd3 Nxd3; 2l.d3 Rxb2;22Nb3 Bb4; 23Na2.

23 .. .Nc5?! 23 Ba3! was stronger, and wud have equaied

24.Qd4 Ba3; 25.Qc3 Qb6; 26 .Nd2 Rxa2; 27.Rxa2 Bb4; 28.Q2d4; 29.Nc4 Qb5; 30.xd4 Bb7; 31c3 Nb3; 32.Qd3 Bc5; 33Rd1h6; 34Bh4 Ba; 35h3 a5; 36.h2 a4; 37.Qe2 Bc6; 38.Nd6 Qa5;39 Qxc3; 40.Be7? 40Rc2 wud maintain an advantage fr White




40 Ncl ; 4l Rxcl Qxcl ; 42Bx

At this point the game was adjourned with resumption set forthe next morning. In the interva, Ta had anticipated the seaedmove and found 42 Be3!! The threat is . . .Bf4+. 43g3 Bg5! ; 44Qc444. Bh4+; 45.g3 Bxg3+; 46.g3 g+; 47.4 g5#.

44 Qe3+; 45g4

45 Bh4!; 46Be7 46.xh4 Qg5#. 46 Bxe7; 47Nx7 h5+;48xh5 Be8; 49g4 e5+; 505 g6+; 5 l g4 Bd7+ hite resigned



MIKHAL TAL

(33) TUMAKOV TALSoviet Championship, 1969

Black is pressing on both wings Choose the correct flank andBlacks killer move.

(34) TAL MALICHVarna, 1958

The queens may be exchanged so White must act desicively




T PAABed, 1961

Whte to move. Lberate a crtca square!

T SOLOMISSoviet Union, 1970

Whte to move. Back s threatenng to capture at a2 and perhaps even make another queen. The kngsde however beongs toWhte f you are quck enough!



1 2. TIRAN PETROSIAN

Ninth Word Champion (1 963 1969)

Petrosan has a reputaton as the most postona of Word Cham-pions He was a counterpuncher who woud hde behind granitebarrers ony to emerge once the opponent had compromised theposton by creatng a sgnfcant weakness Often Petrosan woudhep the process aong by investing the exchange in a postionasacrifce Ths stye dd not end tsef to the great quantty of com-bnations seen n the pay of the other Word Champons but hehad his share of beautes

Petrosan exceed at the art of defense Some of his most nter-estng combnatons were defensive ones used to wrigge out of abad positon Most of the rest come from postons where he con-troed a great dea of space whch was paradocay the antth-ess of hs openng strategy especiay as Back

The foowng games and exercses show a varety of exampesof Petrosan's creatve art Hs keen eye spotted many beautfu

possibilites and he dd his best to ure his opponents into the traps

(55) AVEBA PETROSIANRiga, 1958

We begn wth a cassc drawng combnaton In the days whenround robns domnated the sk of beng abe to wn wth Whteand draw wth Back was very usefu Durng the age of the SwissSystem Back has had to pay wth more ambition With the recent

trend toward knockout tournaments this aty w once aganpay an mportant roe

l e4 c5; N d6; 3d4 cxd4; 4Nxd4 Nf6; 5Nc3 a6; 6Be e5;73 Be7; 8Be3 00; 900 Be6



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10 A welknown varaton has unfoded efore us ut atths stage 0.f4 s a more aggressive choce It seems that Averakhwanted to support hs e4pawn n preparaton for a sege of theackward d6pawn ut n Sclan postons ths smple strategy srarey fease snce Back has consderae counterpay on the c-fe.

10 d7; l l a4 Qc7; 1R Rad8

An interestng decson. Rather than reserve ths rook for thecharacterstc Scan pressure down the cfe Petrosan prefers to

ack up hs potenta weakness preparng to emnate t.13a5 Qc6; 14Bfl d5; 15exd5 Bxd5 Why not recapture wth

the knght? In that case a dffcut mddegame coud have arsenut t seems key that Petrosan was aready steerng towards theexchanging comnaton whch now occurs.

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16Nxd5 Nxd5; 17Qel Nxe3; 18Qxe3 Nc5; 19Re

19 Rd3! A startling move which exploits White's vulnerabilityalong the ga7 diagonal. Thus 20.cxd3? Nxb3 threatening2 . . .Nxa and 2 . . .Bc5 and Back wins The combination forces aposition which has little to build on.

0 Qxe5 Nxb3 Black could consider playing more sharply with

20 . . .Bd6 e .g. 2 .Nd4? (or 2 .Q Nxb3; 22.cxb3 Rxb3 and the pres-ence of the queens gives Black some pull since White has weak-nesses on both sides of the board. ) 2 . . .Qd7 and 22 .Qd5 runs into22 . . . Bxh2+. l cxb3 B; Qe4 Draw agreed Petrosian could haveplayed on with 22 . . .Qxe4; 23.fxe4 Rxb3 although his winningchances are by now remote.

(56) FIP PETROSIANYerevan, 1965Petrosian sets up a King's Indian positon by transposition and

enjoys an extra tempo because White wastes tme by playing thepawn first to c3 and shortly thereaer advancing it to c4. Whitenevertheless embarks upon a risky adventure on the kingside onlyto open up lines for Petrosian to use on that same flank. The finalcombination is not only pretty but rather unusual as well.

l d4 g6; g3 Bg7; 3Bg c5; 4c3? ! Qc7; 5N Nf6; 60-0 0-0;7b3 d6; 8Bb Nc6; 9c4 e5; 10 d5 Superior is 0 .dc5 followed by .Nc3 with no particular advantage but at least White is no worse.10 Na5; l l Nel More natural is .Nc3 and 2 .e4.

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l l Rb8; 1 Nc Bd7; 13 Nd Nh5; 14e4 Bh6; 1 5Rel e8;16 Ne3 b6

Back is content to maneuver behind the ines Eventuay the f-pawn wi be advanced, and the knight wi come to the support ofthe kingside attack from its distant post at a5

17Bc3 Ng7; 18Qe f5; 19exf5 f5; 0Ndfl Nb7

lg4? The weaknesses are fata and White's contro of e4 isnever important l Bxe3! ; Nxe3 g4; 3Nxg4 The kingsidehas been ripped open, and the Back army rushes in 3 Qd8;4 Nh5; 5Bd Nf4; 6Bxf4 Rxf4; 7N Qh4; 8Ne4 h8;9Ng3 Nd8 The knight has penty of time to oin the party byheading to g5



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30Q Qh6; 31Re4 Nf7; 3Khl Rf6; 33Rgl Ng5; 34Re3

The combination is ready, based on the suffocated position ofthe White king. Usuay the resut is a stripping away of the defen-sive forces. Here, however, most of White's pieces are eft on theplate, to be consumed ater when the time is right. 34 Qxh+!The beautifu culmination of Back's fine positional play. 35xh

h6+; 36Bh3 36.Nh5 Rxh5+; 37.Kg3 Rg8 is a simpe win for Back.36 Nxh3; 37Nf5 Objectivey, White shoud pay 37.Kg2 Nx;38.x. 37 Bx; 38Qfl Nf4+; 39Kg3 Rg8+; 40 Nh3+ Whiteresigned

(57) PETROSIAN ENCopenhagen, 1960

Larsen's fighting spirit took him to the Word Champions can-didates stage. He was capabe of defeating even the most powerfulopponents, but in this encounter eary in his career, he runs smackinto one of Petrosian's crushing combinationsa classic kingsidekiler knight sacrifice at f6.

l N d6; d4 Nf6; 3c4 Bg4; 4Nc3 Nbd7; 5e4 e5; 6Be Be7;7 Be3 0-0; 80-0 Bh5 A curious move which oses a tempo, muchstronger is 8 . . .c6. 9Nd exd4; 10Bxd4 Bxe; llQxe Re; 1f4

B; 13Radl a6; 14Q c6; 15g4With the center under contro, White's starts a devastating pawn

advance. 15 Nc5 A further error which eads to a strategicayifeless position for him. 16Bxc5 xc5; 17e5 Nd7; 18Nde4 Qc7;19Rd3 Rad8; 0Rfdl Nb6; l b3 Nc8; g5 A superb move whichprepares the coming sacrifice on f6.




. . .Be7; 3.Qh5 Rxd3; 4.Rxd3 Rd8.

5.Nf6+. The floodgates burst. Perhaps Black had been relyingon 25 . . .Bxf6 but that is refuted beautifully as follows 26.gxf6 Rxd327.5 K; 28.gx7 Ke8 29.8+ Kd7 30.Qx+ Kd8 3.8+Kd7 32.e6+ Kd7 33 .Ne4# or 30 . . .Nd7 3.e6+! Kc8 32.fxe7 etc.

5 gxf6; 6.Rh3 7.Qxh7 Ke8; 8.g6. The final key to

Whites attack. 28 . . .fxg6 fails to 29.e6. 8 . ..B; 9.g7 Bxg7; 30.xg7Qe7; 3l.Ne4 Rd1+; 3.K f5; 33.N+ Kd8; 34.h8+. Back resigned.

58) RSEN PETROSIANSanta Monica, 1966

Revenge time as Larsen delivers a combination of exceptional

elegance. Is it too fanciful to suggest that Larsenconsciously orsubconsciousyrecalled Morphys famous queen sacrifice at ,when he sacrificed his own queen against Petrosians kingside forti-fications? Indeed chess skill is closely related to the abiity to rec-ognize and recall patterns. This is why all great chessplayers havestudied the classic combination. Themes resurface time and timeagain at the chessboard.

l .e4 c5; .N Nc6; 3 .d4 cxd4; 4.Nxd4 g6; 5.Be3 Bg7; 6.c4 Nf6;

7.Nc3 Ng4; 8.Qxg4 Nxd4; 9.Qd1 Ne6; 10.Qd d6; ll.Be Bd7;1.0-0 0-0; 13.Rad1 Bc6; 14.Nd5 Re. Petrosian starts a series ofaimless meanderings which cost four tempi ( ...Re8/ ...Nc7a6/c5) . Best of course is 14 . . .Nc5 ! as Larsen should know since thatwas played in PorathLarsen Amsterdam 1964.



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15f4 Nc7; 16f5 Na6; 17Bg4 Nc5; 18g6 hxg6; 19Q R

0e5!! An ecellent move whch forces Black's mnor pecesonto awkward squares Petrosan has alowed for 20Bc5? dc52Nf6+ Bf6 22Rd8 Rad8 wth good compensaton for thequeen Black's poston s very sold and he would never lose owever 0 Bxe5; lQh4 Bxd5; Rxd5 Ne6 Black had much bet-

ter chances wth 22 e6! 23Qd8 Rfd8 24Re5 de5 25Bc5and t s not absolutely cear that hite wins

3R B; 4Qh6 Bg7

It looks as though Whte must retreat but Larsen unleashes apotent combnaton whch reduces Petrosan's kngsde to rubble56!! Nf4 The mmedate 25 fg6 26Be6+ s about the sameas ths 6Rxf4 g6; 7Be6+ Or 27 7 284+ Bh629Bh6 8Rxf7 h8; 9Rg5 b5; 30Rg3 Back resigns A rarefate for a World Champon



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(59) PETROSIAN VAITONISSatsjobaden Interzona, 195

Petrosian was especially successful on the White side of the

Queen's Gamit. There he usually otained an advantage in spaceand development, which provided fertile ground for rilliant com-inations.

l d4 Nf6; c4 e6; 3 N d5; 4Nc3 Be7; 5cxd5 exd5; 6 Qc 0-0; 7Bg5 d7; 8e3 c6; 9Bd3 Re; 100-0 N; llRabl

This i s the Minority Attack, one of the standard continuationsof the Exchange Variation of the Queen's Gamit eclined. Whitegets ready to use the advance of the a and pawns to underminethe queenside pawn structure. There is another aspect to the posi-tion, however. If Back concentrates on defending queenside weak-

nesses, then the kingside can ecome lnerale. Petrosian feintsto the eft, then slugs his opponent with a ow in the center andfinaly egins a rutal assault on the kingside which is assisted y afine comination.

11 Ne4; 1Bf4 f5; 13Ne5 Bf6? A mistake. This square isneeded for other things. The knight should have advanced o g6.Black's pieces quicky ecome disorganized. 14! Nd6; 15Rbe1g6 5 . . .Ng6; 6.Nxg6 hxg6; 7.g4 would have exposed the weak

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that square however Instead Petrosian offers a knight which mustbe accepted because Back can i afford to et the knight reach d6In hindsight Back shoud have tried to create counterpay wth c5

which is possibe now that White no onger has access to b5 for thebishop 26 Nd7 aso might have been wiser7Nf5!! gxf5; 85 N The massive pawn front virtuay

guarantees victory 9Rg1+ h8; 30.Qh6.

The resut of the combination is a decisive advantage Backoffers a knight to soften the bow but White cuts through the defenses quicky 30 .Ng6 30 Bg8; 31f6 Qc7; 327+ Qxg7;33fxg7# 31g6 Bxg6; 3Rxg6! White has emerged from thecompications with an extra piece Back resigned

60) PETROSIAN

PACHMANBed, 1961Petrosian oen deliberatey chose cramped positions as White

using such fank openings as the Rt and King's Indian Attack Hewoud ie in wait ony to eap at any weakness that emerges In thisgame the target is d6

lN c5; g3 Nc6; 3Bg g6; 400 Bg7; 5.d3 e6; 6e4 Nge7;7Re1 0-0



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Against the King's Indian Attack, Back must pay with carePachman now casuay castes, an obvious move This turns out tobe a big mistake, however, because White can establish a strongpawn at e5 Therefore 7 d6 was necessary

8e5! d6; 9exd6 Qxd6; 10Nd Qc7; l l Nb3 Nd4; 1Bf4 Qb6;13Ne5 Nxb3; 14Nc4! A itte intermezzo that defends 2

14 Qb5?! Back shoud have retreated to d8 15b3 White keepsthe initiative y threatening Ra5

15 a5; 16Bd6!

White's minor pieces dominate the board 16 B; 17Q 7;18Re4 It is hard to criticize this move, but Petrosian has not yetfigured out the position The briiant combination he uses, nextmove, could have been payed here



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18 Rd8

White is ready for action The dark squares on the kingsideinvite an invasion, especially with such a monstrous bishop at d6The only defender is the bishop at f6 19Q6+!! White can affordto invest the queen because Backs forces are in no position todefend The Back queen, bishop and rooks have no useful func

tion Petrosian may have cacuated this to the end, or perhaps simply trusted that his overpowering forces would prevail

19 6; 20Be5+ g5

Here we see the touch of a true Word Champion Petrosian hasinvested a queen for a bishop, but that bishop is very powerfulIndeed, it forces resignation with its next move! 21Bg7!! Backresigned, but the rest is not hard to caculate Back cannot avoidmate in 4 The cutest ine is 2 Rxd3 22cxd3 Kh5 234+ Kg524f4+ 25Nd6#

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PETROSIAN SPSKYWord Championship, 1966

Comnaonal hemes can repea hemselves n dfferen gusesere Perosan sacrfces hs queen on an empy square n order oearn hmself a gganc maeral advanage Oservan readers wlnoce ha hs s he same heme whch Alekhne overlooked nhs game agans Euwe from he 937 Word Champonshp

PETROSIAN IKOV

USSR · Yugosavia, 1979

Blacks kng doesn have much room o maneuver and Whecan eplo hs ow?



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PETROSIAN MOLDAGLIEVSoviet Union,

All of White's forces are attacking Finish the job!

(40) PETROSIAN · STEINSoviet Union,

There are plenty of discovered checks, but which one wins?



1 3. BORI S SPASSKY

Tenth Word Champion ( 1969 197)

Spassky is known the guy who ost the crown to Bobby Fischer,breaking the Soviet hegemony on the World Championship Hisascent to the throne gets much ess attention these days This isperhaps due to his inabiity to maintain his form after that matchWhie the much oder Smysov was able to make it to the Candidates' Fina in 1 84, Spassky made only a brief appearance, osingto Anatoy Karpov in his next shot at the title Since the mid70 's,he has payed from time to time but has not presented any serious

chaenges to modern stars ven his rematch with Fischer in 1 2ended in his decisive defeat His greatest games are from the 1 50' sand 160's

Bernard Cafferty, in his coection of Spassky's bes t games, reates how Spassky expained to him how he was ay like a RussianBear, too ay to bother standing up At his best, chess seemed tofow through him, seemingy effortessy Tremendous compica

tions would lead to combinations that other payers couldn't findSpassky's contributions to the art of the combination are egendary His reuctance to write on chess (he is the east proific ofal Word Champions) perhaps ed to negect of many of his games,though there are excellent collections of his games by Sotis andCafferty Here are some of his finest combinative moments

(6 1) SPASSKY BRONSTEIN

Soviet Championship, 1960This game contains a combination that has been witnessed by

more persons than perhaps any other in chess history It was featured in the eary ames Bond film From Russia With Love," thoughthe names were changed to Kronstein vs McAdams" That seemsrather crue, giving the credit to someone with a name simiar to



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that of the oser, but then Spassky, a gentleman, would hardy wantto have been associated with the evi Kronstein. The supposed payerof the Back pieces was not based on British star, Mickey Adams,

who was not born unti this fim had aready become a cassic.l.e4 e5; .f4 exf4; 3.N d5; 4.exd5 Bd6; 5.Nc3 Ne7; 6.d4 0-0;7.Bd3 Nd7; 8.0-0 h6; 9.Ne4 Nxd5; 10 .c4 Ne3; l l .Bxe3 e3; 1 .cBe7; 13.Bc.

Spassky's combinations are often profound and deep, but atthe same time based on very simple observations. In this position,Bronstein is aready in troube, despite the extra pawn. Back's biggest probem is the h7square. White threatens to pay Qd3, fo-owed by moving the knight from e4 and opening the pathway tothe checkmating square at h7. Back must defend somehow.

Bronstein decides to free the square for the knight, but this weakens the square. 13 Re8; 14.Qd3 e? Hoping to deflect the queento the efie, where it wi be opposed by the rook at e8. he straight-forward defense with . . .N was preferabe. 15.Nd6!!



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15 N 15 exf1Q+; 16Rxf Bxd6; 17Qh7+ K 18cxd6 cxd6;19Qh8+ Ke7; 20Re+ Ne5! was the ony defense though t washard to cacuate and n any case Bronsten was short of tme

After 2Qxg7 Rg8!; 22Qxh6 Qb6; 23Kh Be6; 24dxe5 Whtewoud have enough compensatn for the exchange perhaps butno more oes ths mean that the combnaton s completely un-sound r that the sacrfce was not part of a combnaton at a?We don't thnk so Spassky has payed the best moves n the postons that have arsen and has sacrfced heavy

There are further compcatons and pathways to expore andwe w see that Back mssed some chances too Perhaps ths gamecrosses the border from combnaton to specuatve sacrfce but sspectacuar n ether case 16N!! Ceary ths s the best thatWhte can do but does t work?

16 el Q+; 17Rl

17 B 17 Kx; 18 Ne5+ Kg8; 19 Qh7+ Nxh7; 20Bb3+ Kh8;2 Ng6# s a very eegant wn for Whte 17 Qd5 attracted theattenton of many commentators After a quarter century of anayss the correct contnuaton has been estabshed as 18Bb3!( 18Nxh6+ gxh6; 19 Bb3 Be6; 20Bxd5 Bxd5 s not better for Whte)18 Qx! ; 19 Bx+ x£

Black has a rook and two bshops for queen and pawn but thekng s stl exposed Yet Spassky would have had to resst the temptaton to eap forward wth a dscovered check settlng nstead for20Qc4+ Kg6 (20 Be6; 2 Ng5+ Kg8; 22 Nxe6 Nxe6; 23Qxe6+ Kh8;24Re and sooner or ater Whte wl wn ) 2 8! Bf6 (2 Be6;22Ne5+ Kh5; 23Qxg7 and t s al over) 22Ne5+ Bxe5; 23Q+




7; 24.Qxe8 Bxd4+; 25. and Back has three pieces for thequeen. But there are sti threats to meet, such as Qe4+. 25 ...Ng6;26.Rd Bxc5; 27.Rd8 Ne7; 28.h4! and Back starts to run out of

moves. The simpe threat is h5 foowed by mate at g8 or h8.Black offers a bishop to appease Spassky, and the future Word

Champion is content with the material advantage this confers.18 Qd7 0

The combination has come to an end. In the aermath, Whitehas two pieces and a pawn for the rook. The game does not astlong. 19Qf4 B£6; 0N3e5 Qe7; 1Bb3 Bxe5 2.. .7 22.Q+g6; 23.Qxf6 and there is no point in continuing. Nxe5+ h7;3Qe4+ Back resigned

(6) EN SPSKYBegrade, 1970This is a game which was payed in the spotight of a match

between the top Soviet stars and players from the rest of the world.This game contains a devastating combination which makes itSpassky's bestknown compete game.

lb3 e5; Bb Nc6; 3c4 N; 4N Very risky, 4.e3 is safer.4 e4; 5Nd4 Bc5; 6Nxc6 xc6 Sacrificing his pawnstructure for

the sake of speedy deveopment, somewhat in the stye of Morphy.7e3 B£5; 8Qc Qe7; 9Be 0-0-0; 10£4?! A weakening of

White's kingside, but it takes the pay of a genius to expose thisfault. 10 Ng4; llg3 h5; 1h3 h4!; 13hxg4 hxg3; 14Rgl CanWhite's defenses be penetrated?



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14 Rhl!! The point of this fantastic sacrifice is to seize the h4square for Black's queen, with tempo. 15Rxhl g; 16Rfl 6.RgQh4+ 7.Kd Qh! and wins. 16 Qh4+; 17Kdl gxflQ+ Whiteresigns in view of 8 .Bxf Bxg4+ mates in, at most, two moves.

(63) SPSKY CIIC

Amsterdam, 1970ld4 d5; c4 e6; 3N Nf6; 4g3 Be7; 5Bg 0-0; 60-0 c6;

7b3 Nbd7; 8Bb b6; 9Nbd Bb7

lRcl Spassky opts for the closed form of this openng. Wenow know that the more aggressive 0.Qc2 should lead nowhere.Ironcally, however, Ciric lost a brilliant game as Black n this lneto Geller before Black's defense had been properly elaborated.

GellerCiric, Oberhausen, 96 , went 0 .Qc2 Rc8 Rad Qc72 .e4 dxe4 3 .Nxe4 Nxe4 4 .Qxe4 c5 5 .d5 N. (5 . . .Bf6! 6.Qc2



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exd5; 7.cxd5 Bxb2; 18.Qxb2 Rcd8; 19.d6 Qb8; 20.fe Nf6; 2 .Re7Rxd6; 22.Rxd6 Qxd6; 23 .Rxb7 Qd1+, as n GellerNe, Tfls, 1967,gves equalty.) 6.Qc2 exd5; 17.Be5! Qd8; 8.Ng5 g6; 9.h4 Nh5;

20.Bxd5 Bxd5; 2.Rxd5 Qe8; 22.Re1 Qc6; 23.Bb2 Rfe8; 24.Nx7!Bxh4; 25.Red Qe6; 26.Qc3 ; 27.Qd3 g4; 28.Rg5 ! ! Qe4; 29.Nxf6+Nxf6; 30.gxh4 Red8; 3 .Qxd8+ Rxd8; 32.Rxd8+ 33.Bxf6 f6;34 .Rd6+ 35.Rdxg6 Qxh4; 36.Rg7+ f6! ; 37.R7g6+ 38.Rg7+Kf6; 39.R7g6+ Kf7; 40.Rg4 Qh5; 4.Rg7+ Kf6; 42.R4g6+ Kf5;43 .Rg5+ resgns .

10 Rc8; lle3 c5; 1Qe Rc7; 13cxd5 Bxd5 Ths does notwork out very well. Superor s 13 . . .exd5, although ths type of poston has been known to guarantee White a prolonged ntatvesnce the game BotvnnkPetrosan, Spartakad, 1964, the pawn atd5 slghtly restrcts the scope of Black's b7bshop, and Whte gansuseful squares for maneuversespecally e5.

14e4! Bb7; 15e5! Nd5; 16Nc4! Qa8; 17Nd6!



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3Qc4 Qe8; 4Rel

4 Rxa Hubris? O r was Ciric wifuy cooperating to createa beautifu finish? Such acts of aesthetic generosity and pubicspiritedness are not unknown when a payer reaizes his position isbeyond redemption. 5Rxe6 Qa8; 6 Bxd5 Bxd5; Qh4 Theshis of front, by the White queen, are an especiay attractive fea-

ture of this outstandingy beautifu game. h6; 8Qxh6 N£6; 9Rxf6 Back resigned 29 . . .Rxf6;

30.Qh7+ 3.Qh8+ Bg8; 32.Bxf6 gxf6; 33.Qxf6+ Ke8; 34.Re+Kd7; 35.Re7+ is convincing. This scherzando finish is a fine indica-tion of the combinative artistry of which the fank debuts are ca-pabe. Its simpicity and concentrated force are, in my opinion, infinitey more satisfying than the stereotyped briiancies" which

are manufactured from the combinationa workshop" of such openings as the Morra, Gring and Wing Gambits or the BackmarDiemer.

(64) BAA SPASSKYBucharest, 1953

Unike his predecessors, Boris Spassky can not be easiy de-scribed in terms of a specia stye. Spassky was the first great uni-

versa payer, as comfortabe in massive compications as in quietpositiona waters. In this eary game he shows great maturity, pa-tienty accumuating positiona advantages in a manner which woudimpress Steinitz himsef. Then, he uneashes a Taike combina-tion in a dispay of raw aggression.

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l.d4 N; .N c5; 3.d5 g6; 4.g3 Bg7; 5.Bg 0-0; 6.0-0 d6;7.h3 b5; 8.a4 Bb7; 9.Nh a6; 10.b5 b5; ll.Rxa8 Bxa8.

Blacks position contains some venom. The plan invoves aninvasion of White's position from the fank, specificaly via the afie.

1.Na3 Qd7; 13.b3 Na6; 14.Bb Nc7; 15 .e4 Bb7; 1 6.Qe Ra8;

17.Bcl Ra7; 18.f4.

Spassky notices that both White knights are in terrible posi-ions. Although White seems to dominate the center, a standard

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18 e6! ; 19c4 b4; 20Nc2 exd5; 2 l exd5 Ra2; 22g4

The invasion has begun. Whie is rying o creae somecounerplay on he kingside, bu Black has nohing o worry abouhere. Wha is surprising, hough, is ha he seemingly powerlpawn a d5 urns ou o be ulnerable aer all !

22 Nd5!! This is he sar of a combinaion ha nes a rook

and hree pawns for wo minor pieces The combinaion is basedon anoher insigh by Spasskyhe fac ha he queen a e2 is overworked, having o defend boh d5 and c2!

23cxd5 Ba6; 24Qdl Bl; 25Bxfl? If 25 .Nxf , hen 25 . . .Nb5and Black has a srong game, bu afer 26.Qd3 Nc3; 27.N Blackhas no angible advanage. This resource was missed by Grandmaser commenaors, bu found by 13year old Maser Vinay Bha!

Nxd5; 26xd5 Rxc2; 27Be3



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The freworks have ended. Black's poston s already wnnng.Whte's forces are scattered and there are weaknesses on the backthree ranks. Naturally Spassky would lke to get queens off the board,

to prevent any attack based on, for example, Bc4 and Ng5.7 Qe6!; 8Qa8+ B; 9B Qxb3 Whte has avoded the ex-change of queens, but Black threatens to get an addtonal queensoon. 30g5 Rcl ; 3 l Kg2 Qa3; 32Qd5 Ral; 33Ng4 Qa8! Now thequeens come off, and the endgame s smple . 34Bc4 Bg7; 35 Qa8+Rxa8; 36 Nf6+ Bxf6; 376 Ra3; 38Bel b3; 39Bc3 Ra+; 40KRc ite resigned

(65) SPASSKY TAIMANOVSoviet Championship, 1955

We have already remarked how dangerous t s to delay castlngaganst a top calber opponent. Spassky punshes one of the bestplayers of the day, usng deceptvely smple moves, n a mannerremnscent of Smyslov.

le4 e5; N Nc6; 3Bb5 a6; 4Ba4 b5; 5Bb3 Na5; 60-0 d6;

7 d4 Nxb3; 8b3 f6

Black has adopted a rather artfcal varaton of the SpanshGame. Spassky contnues wth development, but the advance of

the cpawn to c4 mght have been stronger.9Nc3 Bb7; 10Nh4 Ne7; lldxe5 dxe5; 1Q Qd7; 13Rdl

Qe6 The queen sts comfortably here, where t can keep an eye onthe center and can retreat to n the event of a check at h5 . Spasskysees, however, that the square s not as secure as t seems.




14Be3 g5

Ths s an open nvtaton to dsaster. Spassky uses a comna-ton to wn the queen. Black wll temporarly have materal com-pensaton, ut the Black poston s so we that Whte wll soonwn addtonal pawns.

15Nxb5! b5; 16Qh5+ Q; 1 7Rxa8+ Bxa8; 1 8Rd8+! xd8;

19f7 gxh4; 0Q

Black has a rook, shop, and knght for a queen and two pawns,ut vrtually every one of Black's peces s n a lnerale postonand the forces are uncoordnated. 0 Rg8; 1 h3; g3 Ke8;3e5 Rg6; 4Qxb5+ Bc6; 5Qb8+ ; 6Qxc7 Whte hasgoled up three pawns and wns wthout dffculty. 6 7 Bg5Re6; 8 b4 Kg8; 9Qb8 Ng6; 30 Ne5; 3 l b5 Be8; 3Be3 Bd6;33Qc8 ; 34b6 Rf6; 35Bf4 Bd7; 36b7 Be6; 37Bxe5 Bxe5;38b8Q Bxc8; 39Qxc8 Back resigned



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(66) SPASSY BILEMoscow, 1967

The White side of the Siciian was Spassky's favorite opening

and on the way to the Word Championship he scored an amazing75% against it The opening presents many opportunities for combinations and when Back eaves the king in the center punish-ment coud be swi

l.e4 c5; .N d6; 3.d4 cxd4; 4.Nxd4 Nf6; 5.Nc3 Nc6; 6.Bg5Bd7; 7.Qd a6; 8.000 R; 9.f4 h6; 10.Bxf6 gf6; ll.Be h5;1.bl e6; 13.Rhfl b5; 14.Nxc6 Rxc6; 15.B Rc5; 16.f5.

This i s a typica Siciian of the RichterRauzer or Najdorf variety Back's king is stuck in the center but protected by a wa ofpawns The open cie gives Back some hopes of a queenside at-

tack Back shoud now pay conservativey with the queen at c7defending d6 whie adding pressure to the cfie16. . .Qa5?!; 17.e6 e6; 18.e5! A surprising move White of-

fers the epawn three different ways but Back has ony one optionthat does not get punished immediatey 18 .. .Rxe5. 8 fxe5? etsWhite infitrate with 9g5!




19Qf4 Rf5; 20Qg3 Rg5; 21Qh4 d5

Now the combinationa fireworks expode! The king in the cen-ter is a juicy target 22Bxd5! ! exd5; 23Rxf6 White wi win the dpawn too, since Back must defend the rook at g5 whose protectorhas just been eiminated

23 hg8 23 Rg4 oses quicky to 24Re+ Be7; 25Rxe7+!!

xe7; 26 Nxd5+! Ke8 (26 Kd8; 27R# ) 27 Re6+! and the queengets to e7, with mate to foow 24Nxd5 Bg4 This is the best de-fense, in that it forces White to find a good move 25Rx+! andhere Back resigned

White wins because of the weakness of the e7square, for exampe; 25 Kx; 26Rf + Ke8; 27Nf6+ foowed by Nxg8



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(41 ) SPASSY, PFLEGER

Munich, 1979

Find the weak spot in Back's fortress

(4) SPASSY SMYSLOVBucharest, 1953

Back's pieces are in no position to defend the king so rush in!



1 4. ROBE RT FI SC H E R

Eeventh Word Champion ( 197 1975)

To many, Bobby Fischer is the epitome of a Word ChampionMoody, briiant, more than a itte paranoid and simpy awesomeat the chess board He has ony payed one serious competitionsince his 1975 resa to defend his Word Championship tite, pum-meing Boris Spassky in 1992 It is his refusa to pay, more thananything ese, that has reduced his chances of being rememberedas the greatest payer of a time

Kasparov once said of Fischer that even more than other WordChampions, Fischer simpy didn't make many bad moves RobertBurger, in The Chess of Bobby Fischer, observed that Fischer seesmore combinations inherent in moves, seies upon them more of-ten, and pursues them more accuratey in their proper sequence ofmovesthan any other payer aive" Most of Fischer's opponentsseem to have found ways to make bad moves which allowed nicecombinations, but this is just a resut of Fischer's avoidance of bad

movesTo seect a few of Fischer's briiant combinations is no easytask There are penty of exampes at a stages of the game Wehave chosen a few which capture his particuary effective stye, cov-ering the entire span of his career to date

(67) BE FISCHERUS Championship, NY, 1963

The miracuous nature of this game is demonstrated quite cearyby the fact that many peope simpy refused to beieve in it! WhenWhite resigned, a number of spectating Grandmasters coud notunderstand why ( ! ! ) , whie a controversy raged for over a year afterwards as to the soundness of Fischer's combination, which was, infact, utimatey vindicated



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ld4 Nf6; 2c4 g6; 3g3 c6; 4Bg2 d5; 5cxd5 cxd5; 6Nc3 Bg7;7e3?! 0-0; 8Nge2 Nc6; 900 b6; 10b3 Ba6; l l Ba3 Re; 12 Qd2

12 e5! Whether sound or not, this move is justified on thegrounds that it sets White a multitude of problems As it is, themove is sound 13xe5 Nxe5; 14Rfdl If 14Rad, then Fischerwould have played 14 Qc8!

14 N3

15Qc2 It was later claimed that 5Nf4 would have refutedFischers play, but Fischer refuted the refutation with 15 Ne4!15 Nx!!; 16 Ng4+; 17Kgl Nxe3; 18Qd2 Nxg2; 19xg2d4!; 20Nxd4 Bb7+; 2lKfl Qd7! ite resigned

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Byrne ceary saw what the spectators had missed 22 Q Qh3+;23Kg Re+; 24Rxe Bxd4 and the threat of mate on g2 costsWhite the queen 22Ndb5 Qh3+; 23Kg Bh6 aso wins

(68) FISCHER · BENOUnited States Championship, 1963

This one is short and sweet It contains an amazing combination which demonstrates Fischer's efficiency He finds a way tosquech a counterpay and finishes the game in stye

le4 g6; 2d4 Bg7; 3Nc3 d6; 4f4 Nf6; 5N 00; 6Bd3 Bg4?!;7h3 B; 8Qx Nc6?!; 9Be3 e5; 10dxe5! dxe5; llf5 g;12xf5 Nd4; 13Q Ne8; 1400 Nd6; 15Qg3 h8; 16Qg4! c6;17 Qh5 Qe8? 17 N e6 woud have been more soid

18Bxd4 exd4




Now Fischer uneashes one of his most famous tactica movesSince 19 e5 woud be met by 19 , he eiminates that possibiityin the buntest, yet most unexpected, manner 19Rf6!! The rook

must not be captured because then 20e5 ! woud win 19 g8; 0 e5h6; l Ne! There is no defense, so Back resigned

(69) FISCHER SPSKYSveti Stefan (match), 199

The rematch between Fischer and Spassky, 20 years after theirfirst encounter, was an interesting affair Fischer showed some evi-

dence of his od form in the present game In truy modern stye,however, most of the advantage he obtained was a resut of homepreparation

l e4 e5; N Nc6; 3Bb5 a6; 4Bxc6 xc6; 50-0 ; 6d4 exd4;Nxd4 c5; 8Nb3 Qxd1; 9Rxd1 Bg4; 10 Be6; llNc3 Bd6;1Be3 b6; 13a4

The opening has foowed a path that had been recommendedfor Back by many theorticians The approved continuation, be-fore this game, was queenside casting, which Spassky woud soondiscover to be fawed A key positiona factor is the abiity of White'spawn to advance to a5 Back shoud have prevented this with 13 a5

13 0-00 The books said this was a fine move, but Fischerproves otherwise 14a5 Kb7; 15 e5! A sma pseudosacrifice, whichis part of a prepared pan by Fischer 15 Be7 15 fxe5; 16axb6cxb6; 7Ne4 Bc7 invites another sacrifice: 18Nbxc5+ bxc5;19Nxc5+ Kc8; 20Rxd8+ Bxd8; 2Nxe6 and White wins at eastanother pawn

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16Rxd8 Bxd8; 17Ne4

Fischer had done his homework well There is nothing new hereut Spassky was clearly not familiar with the theory of this particu-lar varation 17 Kc6? 17 Bx3; 18cx3 ; 19Rd Ne7; 20Ng5Nc6; 2ax6 Bxg5; 22Bxg5 x6; 23Rd7 Re8; 24Rxg7 Rxe5;25Rxh7 Re+; 26K R; 27h4 was a 1980 game played y

Fischer's friend Peter Biyiasas as White18 b6 cxb6

We are in an endgame where cominations are not all that

common In a sense however Black has not completed the open-ing stage of the game as the kingside pieces are still undevelopedThis allows White to create a comination 19Nbxc5! Bc8 19 xc5;20Rxa6+ Kd7; 2Nxc5+ Ke7; 22Nxe6 g6; 23Bc5+ Ke8; 24Ra8and the ishop falls 0Nxa6 e5; l Nb4+ Back resied

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(70) SAIDY FISCHERNew York, 1965

ere Fischer takes advantage of his understanding of the

endgame to uid a winning comination invoving iquidation ofpieces . This is a cassic technique, ut it requires precise evauationof the resuting endgame position.

l c4 N; Nc3 e6; 3d4 Bb4; 4.e3 b6; 5N Ba6; 6Ng3 Bxc3+;7.bxc3 d5; 8Q 0-0; 9e4 xc4; 10.Bg5 h6; llBd d7; 1e5Nd5; 13N exf5; 14.Qxd5 Re; 15Bxc4.

From a appearances White is on the attack with tremendouspressure at Yet in reaity, the attack invoves too itte force. Fischersees the White rooks ying hepessy in their cuy hoes and usesa comination to ead to an endgame where even though he re

mains ehind in materia he can count on a decisive advantage.15 Nxe5!; 16.Qxd8 Nxc4+! The tactic of discovered check forcesWhite to give up the queen for the rook at e8.

17 Qxe8+ Rxe8+; 18 Kdl Nxd; 19.xd Re+; 0Kcl R

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The combnaon has ed o an endgame where Whe has anera echange for wo pawns, bu he rooks have no useful funcons and he domnaon of he sevenh rank canno be conesed.

l g3 Bb7; Rel Be4! Back coses he ony open fe beforednng on he pawns. 3 Re3 Rxh I was an easy maer o eplohe massve advanage on he kngsde. 4a4 h5; 5Ra3 g5; 63; 7a5 h4; 8b6 b6; 9h4 Rxh4; 30Ra3 Rh7; 3lRa7Re7; 3d5 33Kd f4; 34l ; 35c4 g4; 36Rb7 g3; 37d6cxd6; 38Rxb6 ite resigned

(7 1) FISCHER BOLBOCHANStockhom Interzona , 196

The Scan efense ofen gves r se o combnaons, snce hepayers ofen case on oppose sdes of he board. Geng o hekng s paramoun, and maera canno b spared n he ques.Lke hs predecessor, Spassky, Fscher oved o pay he Whe sdeof he Scan. Bu he aso reed amos ecusvey on he Scanas hs defense o .e4! The combnaona possbes for boh sdes

were, no doub, par of he aracon. Ths game has been parcu-ary conroversa, n ha anayss have red o correc" Fscher'sown noes. We sha see ha hs venure has me wh med resuls.

le4 c5; N d6; 3d4 cxd4; 4Nxd4 N; 5Nc3 a6; 6h3 Nc6;7g4 Nxd4; 8xd4 e5; 9Qd3 Be7; 10g5 Nd7; llBe3

ere Black mus acquesce o he endgame ha s key o arseaer echanges a g5 and e7. l l Nc5? ...Bg5; 12.Bg5 Qg5;13.Qd6 Qe7; 14.Qe7+ e7; 15.Nd5+ K; 16.000 g6 was sug

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to 29 Nf4 28 fe8; 29 Rf competey ties down Black's position28 Rc8; 29Ra7 Ra8; 30Rxa8 Rxa8; 3Nc7 forks the queen androok 9Nf4 Qe5; 30Rd5 Qh8; 3 1 a3 h6; 3h6 h6 32 Bxh4?

oses eeganty to 33Nxg6! fxg6; 34Qb3 35R and fas33h5 Bg5

The combination that foows is remarkabe White waks into a

pin on the ffie and gives up the knight at f4 34hxg6! fxg634 Bxf4 leads to a hopeess endgame 35gx Rx; 36Rx Kx;375! and White recovers the bishop, whie keeping the heat onthe enemy king 37 6; 38Qxf4 Ke7; 39Rh6 g; 40 Ka2 andnow White wi be abe to set up a winning endgame, for example40 Qc5; 4 Qf6 Kd7; 42 Rh7 Kc8 (42 Kc6; 43Qf7 Qc4;44Qxc4 bxc4) 43 Q and Back must pay 43 Qc4; 44Qxc4

bxc4 when 45Ra7 wins35Qb3!




35 Rxf4 Decining the offer doesn't work either 35 Bxf4??alows 36Rh5+! Much more interesting is 35 Kh8; 36Nxg6+! ! Qxg6;37Rxg5 ! ! Rf+ (37 Qxg5; 38Qh3+ Kg8; 39 Qh7# ) 38Ka2 Qxg5;

39Qh3+ Kg8; 40Qxf g6; 4Q eads to a winning endgameWe must pause here just before the end of the game and men

tion that the new edition of Fischer's My 6 Memorable Games ed-ited by ohn Nunn actuay repaced the winning ine given at move40 with the erroneous 40Qh7+ 4Qh8+ g8; 42Qh6+ g7;43Qxg7# But in fact this correction" fais and in fact isn't evenega since 4g8 is a check! The ine does not win for White!

This shoud be a warning to a anaysts who think they can dobetter than the payers themseves though we must point out thatin the vast majority of cases as we saw in RtiAekhine notes Nunn'scorrections in anaysis are improvements The controversy swiringaround his editing of Fischer's notes is that there unike his editions of other works the changes are presented as if they wereFischer's own words and not in footnotes ceary indicating Nunn'sopinions 36Re5+! ; 37 Rxe8+ Back resigned White infitrates

with Qe6+ and mates quicy

(72) MER SCHER,United States Championship, 1957

In this next exampe a young Bobby Fischer shows his tacticaprowess with a doube sacrifice as part of a knockout combination

l N N£6; 2g3 g6; 3 Bg2 Bg7; 4d3 d6; 50-0 0-0; 6e4 c5; 7 c3

Nc6; 8Nel? ! The start o a very passive pan8 Rb8!

The contour of the middegame is set Back takes the initiative

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and s prepared to blast open the queensde, a typcal strategy nthe Closed Sclan we have reached by transposton.

9£4 Ne8; 10Be3 Bd7; llNd b5; 1e5? dxe5; 13Bxc5 ex£4;

14Rxf4 Nc7; 15l b4! 16Qc bxc3; 17bxc3 Nb5; 18d4 R!19Qb

Whe has an awkward poston, but the center seems sold

enough. Appearances can be decevng, however. 19 Nxc3! Thebase of the pawn chan falls. 0Qxc3 Nxd4!! Fantasc! A secondknght s offered. Whte cannot accept, because the bshop s pnned

1Qb4 2 .Qxd4 Bxd4+; 22 .Bxd4 Bb5; 23.Rf4 e5! s ye anotherexplotaton of he pn. l Ne+; l Rxc5! ; 3 Qxc5 Bxal

Whte s down two pawns, and Fscher won wthout dffculy.4Ne Bg7; 5 Rel Nc3; 6xa7 Be6; 7a3 Qd6; 8Qa5 Bd5;9 Nbl? Ra8!; 30Qb4 Qxb4; 3 1 b4 Bx; 3Nxc3 Bxg+ iteresigned

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( 45) FISCHER DELYSkopje, 1967

ere, there are distinct simiarities with position number 44.You need to sacrifice not just materia, but one of your positionaassets as we.

(46) FISCHER MIAGMASUENSousse Interzona, 1967

Finish quicy, but with stye

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(47) BISGUIER FISCHERNew York, 1960

Ths poson looks compcaed snce e Whe, passed pawnsare dangerous, u Fscher rually elmnaes all ressance

(48) OSO FISCHER

New York (match), 1957

Fscher s a pawn down, u he regans wh neres

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1 5 . ANATOLY KARPOV

Twefth Word Champion(19751985 and DE Word Champion 1993-present)Karpov is known as one of the greatest positiona payers of a

time, and his preference for quiet positions has characterized hisstyle ever since he was awarded the Word Championship title afterBobby Fischer refused to defend it in 1975 Therefore, his combi-nationa output is much smaer than that of the other Word Cham-pions Karpov's wins tend to invove the steady accumuation ofadvantages and expoitation of opponent errors

His ability to cacuate is strong, but from time to time he wiose concentration and has committed some whopping bundersWhen focused, he exces at defense, and his success is due in nosmal part to his ability to anticipate enemy pans Karpov does nottake risks He enters compications , usuay, ony aer he has workedout a the detais A sharper stye emerged in his 1 998 FIDE Word

Championship match against Viswanathan Anand, though he didmake some serious tactica errors in his successful tite defenseKarpov has hed the FIDE Word Championship for most of

the last quarter of the 0 century He has been ecipsed by GarryKasparov, who took the FIDE tite from him in 1985, and aban-doned it in favor of the PCA crown in 1993 He remains one of themost active champions, and continues to produce artistic games,and, from time to time, a memorabe and instructive combinationSome of his artistry is dispayed in the foowing examples

(73) KRPOV KORCHNOIMoscow USSR, 1974

Karpov has no fear of compicated openings In this game, fromthe Candidates fina that was to earn him the Word Champion



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ship, he enters one of the most uncompromising openings of a,the mighty Dragon, and finds a briiant combination waiting

l .e4 c5; 2.N d6; 3.d4 cxd4; 4.Nxd4 Nf6; 5.Nc3 g6; 6.Be3 Bg7;

7. Nc6; 8.Qd2 00; 9.Bc4 Bd7; 10.h4 R; l l .Bb3 Ne5; 1 .00 Nc4; 13.Bxc4 Rxc4; 14.h5 Nxh5; 15.g4 Nf6.

This has been weknown theory for a ong time, and is a typi

ca Yugoslav Attack in the Dragon Sicilian, which has seen morethan its fair share of combinations from both sides of the board

16.Nde2. This is an exceent move It consoidates the positionof the knight at c3, and eiinates any Black notion of an exchangesacrifice at c3 It is interesting to note that Karpov takes time outfor safety right in the midde of his fierce attack on the kingsideThis sort of move underines the contrast between modern payers

and the od Masters You woud not find Morphy or Anderssentaking time out for such preiminaries16 .. . Qa5; 17.Bh6 Bxh6; 18 .Qxh6 Rfc8; 19.Rd3.




This is the perfect companion to Karpov's 16th move Now thethreat of g5 ooms arge Korchnoi had probaby anayzed this athome, but not as deepy as Karpov He took a ong time to respond

to this move, perhaps noticing some faws in his preparation19 R4c5; 0g5! The beginning of a ong and briiant combi

nation 0 Rxg5 Back accepts the pawn However, the ast chanceto resist was 20 Nh5 Here is one exampe 20 Nh5; 2Nf4 Rxc3;22Rxc3 Rxc3; 23Nxh5! gxh5; 24Qxh5! Kf; 25Qh6+ Ke8;26Qxh7 and White threatens Qh8+ foowed by Qxc3 , so Back hasto try the desperate 26 Rxc2+; 27Kxc2 Be6 But after 28g8+

Kd7; 2 a3 Qb5, that turns out to be good enough for a draw lRd5Rxd5; Nxd5 Re; 3 Nef4 White's knight, which had been overprotecting c3, now returns to the attack with decisive force

3 Bc6

23 Be6; 24Nxe6 fxe6; 25Nxf6+ exf6; 26Qxh7+ 27Qxb7and White ceans up quicy 4e5! This must have been the mostdifficut move to find It jams the route to g5, shortcircuiting Back'sresistance 24Nx+ exf6; 25Nh5! g5+!; 26Qxg5 fxg5; 27Nf6+ 28Nxe8 Kxe8; 2Rxh7 and Back can contiue to resist4 xd5; 5ef6 exf6; 6Qxh7+ 7Qh8+ Korchnoi resigned.

This beautifu game has been showered with praise and prizesby journaists the word over, as we as by the judges at the competition But there is a troubing question Was this reay a game, ordid Korchnoi merey stumbe down the paths of pregame anaysisby Karpov and his seconds, Geer and Furman? We know that muchof it was preparation, and the speed with which Karpov executed



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his plan indicates that this may all have been home cooking as inthe case of Kasparov' s demolition of Viswanathan Anand that wewill see later on Of what sporting rather than scientific value is a

combination conceived at home in the laboratory or now with theassistance of computers? It is as if a favorite painting supposedlyfrom the brush of a great artist turned out on closer inspection tobe a forgery by numbers!

(74) TIMMAN OVMontrea, 1979

Karpov is not known for aggressive play especially as Black Inthis game however he aims his piece at White's kingside and firesaway The result is a brilliant combination

l c4 Nf6; 2Nc3 e5; 3 N Nc6; 4e3 Be7; 5d4 exd4; 6Nxd4 00; 7Nxc6 bxc6; 8Be2 d5; 900 Bd6; 10b3 Qe7; llBb2 dxc4;12bxc4 8; 13Qcl Ng4; 14g3 Re; 15Ndl

White has played without energy and has a passive positionThe king is defended only by the bishop at e2 and rook at f andthis allows Black to sacrifice material to launch a combination

15 Nxh2! The target is actually g3 The defender at h2 is gone16c5 Inventive counterplay attacking the bishop at d6 which needs

to remain on the b8h2 diagonal Taking the knight gets clobbered6xh2? Qh4+; 7Kg Bxg3; 8fxg3 g3+; 9 Re4 andWhite is in serious trouble The best try is 20Rf4 Qe+; 2Kg2Qxe2+; 22Kg3 Rxb2; 23Qxb2 (23Nxb2 Re5! and there is no defense to mate in 4 ! ) 23 Rxe3+; 24Nxe3 Qxb2 ; 25Rd g5! and Blackhas three extra pawns with more coming 9 Re6 is not as good




since Back can hang on with 20Bf6 Rxf6 2 Rxf6 Qh4+ 22 KgQxf6

16. . .Nxfl; 17.cxd6.

What now? Back's queen, knight and pawns on the cfie are aunder attack, and White may take the initiative with Qc3? Howdoes the combination continue? With another sacrifice!

17 Nxg3!!; 18 dxe7 Nxe2+ 19 Nxc 20Bxc Rxe7gives Back an extra exchange and three pawns! 18 ...Qxd6; 19..The result of the combination is a materia advantage and continuing attack

19 Qh6; 0.Bd4 Qh+; 1 .el Qxg3+; .d Qg.

White coud resign here Back sti has the initiative as we asfour extra pawns 3 .Nb Ba6; 4.Nd3 Bxd3; 5.xd3 Rbd8! Backhas not finished attacking There wi be no endgame 6.Bfl Qe4+;7.c3 c5; 8.Bxc5 Qc6; 9.b3 Rb8+; 30.a3 Re5; 31.Bb4 Qb6.hite resigned.




18l! Typica caution. Karpov wi attack ut not at any riskto his own king which is now safe. 18 b5; 19b5 axb5; 0Nxb5Qb6 Now we see the ogic ehind Karpov's 18th move. There s no

threatened discovered check.Nbc3 Qb4; Qd3 Nb6; 3Qg3 8; 4Rcdl Nc4; 5b3

Nb6 Now a surprising move cracks open the Back positon.

6g6! g6 Taking with the other pawn aso loses 26 . . .g6;27.Qh4+ Kg8; 28 .Ng5 and it is a over.

7£5! gxf5; 8Rxf5 Nd7; White's pieces qucy overwhemthe kngside. 9Rdfl Ne5; 30R5f4 Qb6; 3 1 Ng5 Ng6 No for aneegant finish!

3N+ Kg8

33Qxg6!! The sacrifice of the queen forces checkmate on33 . . .g6; 34.Rh4 Be7; 35Rh8# so Back resigned




Karpov has a typica opening advantage We can see that is abit negected There is no way to take advantage, however, whiethe game remains cosed Therefore, Karpov opens it up

0e4! dxe4; lNxe4 Qf4; Bc4 Bg7; 3Re c5 Backstrugges to find counterplay, but Karpov repes a efforts 4d5!Raa8; 5Rbel White is setting up tactica threats Back now triesto reorganize to go after the pawn at d5 5 Rad8; 6Qb3 Ba;7g3 Qb8; 8d6! Now the path to is cear

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Back has defended the pawn, but Karpov has prepared a com-bination! 9Bxf7+! Rx; 30Neg5! ! A of White's pieces play theirroes to perfection

30 g5; 3 l Nxg5 R Now, Karpov just bows down the was

and triumphanty enters the position 3 Re8 xd6; 33Qx+ 8;34Ne6 Back resigned

(77) OV COBOSkopje Opiad, 197

Karpov shows that he is quite capabe of breaking down barri-ers with sacrificia and combinative pay in this next game

le4 c5; N d6; 3d4 cxd4; 4Nxd4 Nf6; 5Nc3 a6; 6f4 e6;

7Be Qc7; 80-0 Nc6; 9l Bd7; 10 a4 Be7; l l Nb3 0-0; 1 Be3

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The opening is a typica Scheveningen Siciian, and, in fact, thisposition is in keeping with a of the main ideas of that opening. SoBack hasn't had to do much thinking yet. With the next move,Coo makes an error in strategic judgement which turns out to becriica . The knight at c6 shoud head for c4 via a5, but instead goesto b4, in a vain attempt to carry out the Siciian break with. . .d5.

12 Nb4?! ; 1 3a5 Bc6 13 . . .d5; 1 4.Bb6 Qc8; 15 .e5 Ne4; 1 6.Nxe4dxe4; 17.c4 eaves Back a tied down. 14Bb6! Qb8?! 14 . . . Qd7;15.B is better for White, but not as bad for Back as the text.15Qd2 d5 Back has achieved the break, but under unfavorabecircumstances, as the bishop at c6 is reduced to the status of anatar boy.

16e5 Nd7 16. . .Ne4; 17.Nxe4 dxe4; 18.c4 is aso miserabe for

Back. 17Bd4 b5; 18Bg4 g6; 19Rael R; 20£5 £5 20 . . .ex;22.e6 opens up too many ines.



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The kingside has no defense, and Karpov aunches a combination which wins by force 1B5 If Back pays 2ex, then22e6 wins, according to Karpov This requires a itte more expa-

nation

It is not merey that the knight on d7 is under attack That, infact, is irreevant Let's first dismiss 22 Nf6 on account of23g5+

22 fxe6 is countered with 23Rxe6 The retreat 22 N fais tothe simpe 23ex+ ; 24Rxe7+ and mate in 6 So the knightcan't be saved in any case A reasonabe pan is 22 Qd6; 23Qh6f6; 24Rx N, but this eads to 25Rg5+! Ng6; 26Rxg6+! hxg6;27Qxg6+ Kh8; 28Rd3 and 29Rh3#

Back to the game, where the action continues l N; Qh6!

Before a success combination can be aunched, a pieces mustbe in position to reach usefu squares Here the White queen wasnot aready on the kingside, but she sat on a square with direct



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access to crucal kngsde dark squares Karpov s not worred aboutthe bshop at , as capturng t would allow Whte to blast openthe efle

22 Ng6 Though Black declnes the sacrfce, Whte' s forcngvaratons contnue 22 ex allows 23e6! and to avod mmedatedsaster Black must play 23 f6 Now there follows 24Rx Nxc2(24 Be8 25 Rxf6) 25Rg5+! The rook cannot be captured becauseof mate at g7, so there s nothng better than 25 Ng6 26Rxg6+!hxg6 27Qxg6+ Kh8 28Bxf6+ Bxf6 29Qxf6+ h7 30Re5 andmate follows

23Bxg6

23 . xg6? Black could have put up stffer resstance 23 fxg6forces Whte to fnd 24Qh3! Ths excellent move keeps the pres-

sure on Black must now retreat the bshop to d7, but ths takesaway a valuable flght square 24 Bd7 25R The threat of mateat h7 forces Black to accept ths gft 25 Kx 26Qxh7+ Ke827 8+ Bf8 28 Rf Kd8 2 9 Qx+ Be8 (29 Kc7 30Qd6+)30 Bb6+ Kd7 (30 Rc7 3 Nc5 ) 3 Rf7+ Bx 32 Qxf7+ Kc633Nd4#

24Re3. Black must now cope wth the threat of Rh3 and Qh8#24 B; 25Qh4 Bg7; 26h3 The combnaton has resulted n a

wnnng poston, because Black wll not be able to cope wth allthe threats, the most deadly of them beng Bc5 and Qh7#

26. . Be8; 27Qh7+ 28.Qxg6 f6.



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And a small sacrfice wraps things up 29R+ Back resigned29 Bxf6 30Qxf6+ and 3 8#

(78) OV NNWijk Aan Zee, 1993

One would expect a sharp tactical brawl when Karpov plays

against Nunn and this game does not disappoint Early in he gameit is superb actician John Nunn offering a sacrfice As the gamegoes on we will see that it is Karpov who shows greater combina-tional insight though his combination comes deep into a tacticalendgame

ld4 N; 2c4 g6; 3Nc3 Bg7; 4e4 d6; 5 0-0; 6Be3 Nbd7;7Qd2 c5; 8d5 Ne5; 9Bg5 a6; 10.£4 Ned7; llN b5



ANATOLY KARPOV

Right away Karpov is faced with a decisionto accept or decline? 12.cxb5. 12e5 b4; 13Ne2 Ne4 would have given Black anactive position, and the pressure on the pawn at e5 would be un-

bearable12 . . .Qa5; 13.e5! Karpov grabs the initiative 13 .. .dxe5; 14.e5Ng4; 15.Bxe7 Re; 16.d6 Bh6. The pawn at e5 is taboo 16 Ndxe5;17Nxe5 Nxe5; 18Nd5 xd2+; 19Kxd2 is a tremendous endgamefor White

17.Ng5 Ne5; 18.Be2 b5. 18 Rxe7; 19de7 Bb7 would beplausible if Black could corral the epawn, but Karpov had planned2000! when Black does not have time for 20 Re8 After 20 f6;2Qd6! Bxg5 (2fxg5; 22Qe6+ Kg7 the pawn also advances toe8 ) 22 Qe6+ Kg7; 23bxa6 Be3+; 2Kh Bxa6 The pawn promotesand Black must part with the rook 25e8Q Rxe8; 26Qxe8 Bxe2;27Rfe and the efile again proves decisive

19.00 c4; 20.B N+; 2l.Rx.

Black is already in serious trouble on the kingside and materialis still even! 2 l . . .Ne5. 2 Bb7 leads to 22 Rh3 Bxg5 (22 Bg7;23 Rxh7 Qb6+; 24Kh f6; 25Rxg7+! ! xg7; 26 Ne6+ Kh7) 23 Qxg5Qb6+; 24Kh 22.Re3. 22Qd5 Nx+; 23 Bxg5; 24 Qxg5 Qb6+;25Kg2 B; 26Nd5 Qd4; 27Nf6+ Kh8; 28Nxe8 Qxb2+; 29Kg3

Qe5+ is just a draw! 22 .. .Nd3; 23.l. White might have tried 23 b4here instead




23 Be6; 24h4 B

Nunn srkes agan, sacrfcng a pawn a e6 o draw he pawn ad6 o a more vunerabe square. Perhaps Karpov shoud have jusexchanged bshops a £

25Nxe6 e6; 26Rxe6 b4! Back drves Karpov's kngh backo a pahec square before swappng bshops a e7. 27Ndl 27.Ne4

ooks beer, bu sn' t. 27 . . .Bxe7; 28.dxe7 Qa7+; 29.Kh2 Rxe7 andnow 30 .Nf6+ Kg7 leves Whe facng dffcues , wh a weak pawna a2, unresoved rook a e6, and menacng Back forces on hequeensde. Ye here s more han mees he eye here. Whe canconnue he aack by a combnaon.

3 .Nh5+! s crca. Back mus not pay 3 . . .Kg8; 32 . Qe2! Qc7+;33.g3 Ra7. (33 . . .Rxe6; 34.Qxe6+ Kh8; 35.R and Black mus parwh he queen.) 34.Qe4!! gxh5; 35.Qd5! Rxe6; 36.e6+ Qf7.(36 . . . Kh8; 37.R+ Kg7; 38.Qf6#.) 37.Rx Rx; 38.Qxc4 Ne5;



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39Qxb4 Ng4+; 40 Kg2 R+; 4 Kg and Back can resign, as the apawn wi race up the board after Back deas with the immediatethreat of 42Qxg4+ folowed by

More accurate is 31Kh8!, which forces White to take radicameasures, as too much materia is hanging and, in any case, Backthreatens to consoidate with Rg8 32Rxg6! is the best reply32 hxg6; 33 Qh6+ Kg8; 34 Qxg6+ h8 (34 Rg7; 35Nxg7 Qxg7;36 Qe6+ Kh8; 37 Rf6! and White wins the Back queen for the rook )35 Qh6+ Kg8; 36 N+ ; 37Qh5+! 38Nd5+ Kg8 (38 N;398+ ; 40 Qf6+ picks off the knight ) 39Nf6+ . This ongforced variation eads to the foowing position

As a resut of the combination (so far) White has cracked openthe Black kingside However, with ony two pawns for a rook, White

must find some way to continue the forcing nature of the positionSimply winning the rook at e7 for the knight woud eave Whitewith ony two pawns for the piece, and the queenside pawns areboth under attack 40 Nd5+ Kg8; 4 Nxe7+ Qxe7 With superb ma-neuvering, White is now ready to pose an unanswerabe questionto Back 42R! (42 Qd5+ Kg7; 43 Qxa8 Qxh4+; 44Kg Qd4+ andBack escapes with a draw) 42 Qe5+; 43 Rg3+!

White maintains the initiative even in defense Glorious! Back

can give up the queen now, but woud have no chance in theendgame 43 . . . 44Q+ Qf4; 45Qxa8+ Ke7; 46Qh8 Whitedefends the weak pawns at b2 and h4 and can convert the materialadvantage One can argue that this entire ine is a huge combina-tion, but it is highy unikey that Karpov, or any human, coud cacuate it In fact, we performed this anaysis with the assistance




from powerfu computers, which coud not come cose to findingthe main ine

Back to the game!

27 B7; 28Qe3 Qc5 28 Qa7; 29Rxe7 Qxe3; 30Nxe3 Rxe7;3dxe7 Re8; 32Nxc4 Rxe7; 33Rd Re4; 343 is a superiorendgame for White

29dxe7 Rxa2; 30l Ra7

Whie the goa of invoving a forces in the attack is an admirae one, sometimes it is just not possie The knight at d justcant get invoved Therefore, White is imited to attacking with aqueen and two rooks, with an assist from the pawn at e7 Giventhat the Back king has ony two sma pawns as defenders, it ismore than enough to justify a sacrifice Besides, Whites position isawfu, despite the pawn at e7 Back is cruising down the queensideand the epawn is not going anywhere except, perhaps, ack intothe ox



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31.Rxg6+!? hxg6; 32.Qe6+ Kg7; 33.Qf7+ h6; 34.Qxe8.

Karpov has recovered the materia, and is a pawn ahead. Moreimportant than the pawn, however, is the vunerabe position ofthe enemy king. Although the forcing variation seems to have cometo an end, that is not the case.

The combination continues, as Back is sti forced to deal with

immedate threats. In the present position, White threatens notony Qh8#, but also Q+, foowed by the advance of the pawn toe8.

34 e7. 34 . . .Rxe7 is much stronger. 35.Qh8+ Rh7; 36.Qd8seems to e the best White can do, and with equal materia, White'spositional advantage and the vunerabe targets on the queensideare offset by the insecure position of his own king. So what we have

seen so far, is a sacrifice, but not a combination, uness one canargue for a significant advantage for White here. 36 . . .Qe7; 37.Qd4Qc5 and Black should have no probem drawing. 35.Qh8+ Qh7;36.Qd4. Now the threat s the capture of the pawn at c4 and theBack knight is ready to fal . 36 .. . Qe7; 37.Ne3 Ne5.




If the previous sacrifice fais to quaify as a cominaton Karpovmakes a cear cominatve statement with his next move. 37 . . .c3oses to 38.Qh8+ Qh7; 39 .Ng4+ Kh5; 40.Nf6+.

38xe5! xh4+ 38 . . .Qxe5; 39.Ng4+ Kg7; 40.Nxe5 c3; 4 .xc3c3; 42 .Rc s a simpe win for White. 39Kgl Re7; 40Qh8+ h7;41Q+ Rg7 Karpov proay repeated the position n order to

nsure that he ·made time contro. 42Qh8+ h7; 43Q+ Rg7;44R! Back resigned

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ANATOLY ARPOV

FIND THE WI( 49) OV BURT

Mata Oympiad, 1980

The light squares provide all the illumination needed for vic-tory.

(50) OV OFIESHSimutaneous Exhibition, 1991




OV CSOMBad Lauterberg, 1977

Both kngs are naked but for a snge defensve knght Whtemust hurry, however

TARJAN OV

Skopje, 1976

How can Back fnsh off the game?



GARRY ASPAROV

Whie's pieces dominae he board, bu don' seem o be arge-ing he kingside. Acually, he move Kasparov played is par of along and amazing journey. The ligh squares belong o his bishop,

who will use hem o grea effec.2 1 Bb6 Black's posiion is falling apar, so counerplay wih

2 . . .d3 was indicaed. 22Qb3 A simple fork of pawns a b5 and .22 Re7; 23B! 23.Qxb5? Bd7 gives Whie compensaion for heexchange, bu no more. 23 Re5; 24Bh5! The bishop, ired fromis longjourney, prepares o make he ulimae sacrifice. 24 g6

25Bxg6!! xg6; 26Rxg6+ The pin on he pawn a f7 is nowrevealed o be he rue reason behind Kasparov's 22nd move.

26 K 27 h6 Ke7 27 . . .Kg7 ses up anoher brillian finish.

28 .Rh7+! ! Kxh7 29 .Qx+ Kh8; 30 .Ng6#. In he game, we see adifferen heme. 28Rcc6! The hrea is Ng6+! Kasparov creaes afence along he 6h rank, keeping he Black king compleely con-ained.




28 Rf5; 29Q Bc7; 30 Qe+ Re5

Back is hanging on, but another combination brings the Backmonarch to his knees in submission 3 1 Ng6+! ! g6; 32h7+ 33 Qxg6 Back resigned

(80) SPAROV YUSUPOV

Soviet Championship, 1981Kasparov's abiity to find a way through the defensive barrier

characterized his ascent to the Word Championship This gamecontains one of the most impressive of a of Kasparov' s combina-tions Kasparov basts open a seemingy bocked posiion in hemanner of some mean and particuary ravenous dinosaur The Blackking is accessibe ony via an open ie, which Back can easiy con-

rold Nf6; 2c e6; 3N Bb+; Bd2 a5; 5g3 0-0; 6Bg2 b6;70-0 Ba6; 8Bg5 Be7; 9Qc2 Nc6; 10 a3 h6; l l B Bx; 12 Rd1Qe7; 13e3 Rae8?!



GARRY KASPAROV

In this slow opening, Back has actually outstripped White' s de-velopment, but that is only an ilusory advantage. White controlsthe center, and d7d5 will not be appropriate because of the posi-

tion of the White queen, putting pressure on the cfie.14.Nfd2 g5?! Black overreacts to the positional strength of

White's game. 4. . .g6 would have been more solid. 15.Nc3 Bg7;16.Nb5 Qd8; 1 7.f4 Ne7! Back has taken advantage ofWhite' s fautyplan by reorganizing his pieces so that the Ne7 can take part in thedefense. Unfortunately, Yusupov soon forgets why he wanted theknight at e7.

18.N N£5; 19.Q c6; 20.Nc3 gxf4; 21.xf4 Bxc4.The pawn

at c4 would have heped White to break through at d5, but Kasparovhas eyes only for the kingside. 22.e Nd6? 22 . . .Ne7; 23.Kh! ;24.e5 brings White sufficient compensation for his pawn, becauseBack's kingside is very weak.

23.Ne5 £5; 24.Nxc4 Nxc4; 25.b3! The Black knight is drivenback to its home rank. 25 .. .Nd6; 26.e5 Nc8; 27.B Kh7; 28.Bh5Re7; 29.Khl Rg8?! 29 . . .Bh8; 30.Rg Rg7; 3.Rxg7+ Bxg7; 32.Rg

Qe7 ! would have been relativey best.30.Rgl Bh8.

The Back king is suffocating at h7, but there does not seem to

be any way to attack it. Back threatens to use the gfile to exchangethe heavy pieces, and in an endgame White may suffer because ofthe weaknesses of the pawn structure. Kasparov's solution is inge-nious and origina, but makes use of the same themes seen in thousands of other combinations.

3l.Ne4!! The combination begins with the offer of the knight,




whch must be accepted because of the threat of Nf6+. Ths gvesWhte access to the square. The sacrfce of matera s not ofgreat mportance because Back's knght s so out of pay.

3 1 . .. e4; 32 .f5 Rg5? Brngng the queen to woud have beenbetter (Back cannot pay 32 . . .Reg7 because of 33.Bg6+). 32 . . .Q.Whte now does not check wth the bshop, as Back woud sacr-fce the rook for t, but nstead advances 33.f6! Back's most nge-nous defense s 33 . . .Reg7, expotng the pn on the ffe. After34.Rxg7 Bxg7 there s the resource 35.!

It doesn' t matter much what Back pays here, snce Whte w

have a serous advantage after capturng the rook wth check. If35 . . .Rh8; 36.g2 Ne7; 37.Qxe4+ N; 38. Black has nothngbetter than 38 . . .Rg8 and then Whte easy wns the endgame aer39.fxg8+.

33.Rxg5 xg5; 34.f6.

34. . .6. Ths s pretty much forced. 34 .. . Q; 35.fxe7 Qx;36 .e8Q wns because Back has no checks. 35.fxe7 Qxe7. 35 . . .Nxe7doesn't hep. 36.Q Bg7; 37.Rf Bh8; 38.Rf6+ Bxf6; 39.exf6 andite wins 36.B! d6. 36 . . .g4 s reted by 37 .h4! gxh3; 38 .RgBg7; 39 .Qf4+ 7; 40.Qxe4+ Kh8; 4 .g6.



GAY KASPAOV

37.Rf1 g4.

A inal elegant cominative touch rings the game to an end.37. . .dxe5 would have led to death on the dark squares after 38 .Qe2.38.Bxe6!! e6; 39.Qh4+ Kg7 and here Yusupov resigned eforeKasparov could pay 40 6 1-0.

(8 1 ) KPAROV · ANANDPCA Word Championship, 1995

Cominations are generaly invented at the chessoard utsometimes as we have seen they are part of careful home prepara-tion. This game is perhaps the most spectacular exampe of a pre-pared comination and its significance is enhanced y the factthat it was unveied in a critical game of the 995 World Champi-

onship. Kasparov refined an idea suggested y Word ChampionMiail Tal so this is truly a World Champion comination!l .e4 e5; 2 .N Nc6; 3.Bb5 a6; 4.Ba4 Nf6; 5. 0-0 Nxe4; 6.d4 b5;

7 .Bb3 d5; 8.xe5 Be6; 9.Nbd2. This move has moved up to an equalposition with 9.c3 as the main line of the Open Spanish.

9 Nc5; 10.c3 d4. Anand takes up the challenge of the aggres-sive main line.




ll Ng5 This introduces a piece sacrifice which leads to uncearcomplications if accepted Anand had preared an alternative linel l dxc3 Qxg5; 12Q 000; 13Bxe6+ fxe6; 4Qxc6 is awellexplored alternative for Back

12 Nxe6 e6; 13 bxc3 Qd3 This much had been seen in game#6 of the match, but in this game Kasparov was ready with an old

new move from the magica hand of Mikhai Ta

14Bc2!! Ta's idea is to set up a magnificen rook sacrificeKasparov claimed that the idea had only come to his attenion afew days before his game In any case, Kasparov had the lury ofexploring the wild compications in the comfort of his home, andwas abe to work out all the details and check them with powerfucomputers

14 Qxc3 Anand responded quickly and seemed to be welwithin his own preparation 15Nb3 Nxb3 Amazingly, even this

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much is not new An obscure posta game between Berg andNevestveit in 1990 reached the same position, and varied with15 Rd8 Aer, 16Bd2 Qxc5, Kasparov woud have reveaed the

strong origina move 17g4! Better is 16 Rxd2! 17Nxd2 andthen a capture at e5 16 .Bb3 N d. Anand defers acceptance of thesacrifice unti the next move After 16 Qxa 17Qh5+, it is hardto find a defense for Back

17 .Qg Qal ; 18.Be6.

Back has an extra rook, but the king, trapped in the center, wipay a high price 18 .. .Rd8. 18 Nxe6 19Qxe6+ Be7 20Bg5 is immediatey termina 19.Bh6 Qc3. Not 19 Qxf+? 20Kxf gxh62Qh5+

20.Bg7 Qd3; 21.B8 Qg6. 2Ne2+ ony postpones the in-

evitabe 22.B Be7; 23.Be7 g. Or 23 e7 24Qh4+ 2.Bg4e7; 25.Rcl . No onger in home preparation, Kasparov needs noassistance to win this endgame




25 c6; 26.£4 a5; 27 a4; 28.Ke3 b4; 29.Bd. The bishopges ou of he way so ha he gpawn can advance. 29. . .a3; 30.g4Rd5; 3l .Rc4 c5; 32.Ke4 Rd8; 33.Rxc5 Ne6; 34.Rd5 R; 35. Rc4+;

36 .Ke3 Nc5; 37 .g5 Rcl ; 38.Rd6. Back resigned

(82) PAROV MEPHISTO (COMPUTER)Bindfod Simutaneous, 1985

Kasparov played he following game in a simulaneous exhibi-ion where he faced a oal of en opponens and had jus 90 min-ues o make 40 moves agains each of hem Tha is quie a handi-

cap! Now consider ha one of his opponens was a powerful com-puer. Usually combinaions are sidesepped by compuers bu hereKasparov creaes an avalanche of combinaive blows he machinehas a devil of a ime defending and evenually has o capiulae

l.e4 e5; 2.N Nc6; 3.Bb5 a6; 4.Ba4 Nf6; 5.00 Be7; 6.Rel b5;7.Bb3 d6; 8.c3 00; 9.h3 Na5; 10.Bc2 c5; ll.d4 Qc7; 12.d5 Bd7;13.b3 Qb6.

Black's passive play leaves him wihou a plan The formaionswih . . .Bd7 are no considered very good hese days. Kasparov loso eeper Blue in heir 1997 mach from a relaed srucure asBlack. 14.Nbd2 Rfc8; 15.Nfl . Whie adops he cenuryold plan of

shifing he knigh o he kingside where i can leap o .



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15 h6; 16 .Be3 Qd8; 17.Qd2 Nh7; 1 8.Ng3 Rab8; 19 .N! B5;20.ex Nf6; 2l.g4.

Black has no counterplay at al , and White is free to slowly uildup in preparation for a decisive combination 2 l .. .Nh7; 22.Kg2 7;23 .Rhl Nf6; 24.Ragl Qb6; 25 .Kfl Rd7. A typica Kasparov comi-nation is just a few steps away The sight of all those Black pieces on

squares far from their monarch must have had Garry drooing26.g5 g5; 27.Nxg5 Qb7.

Now Kasparov must pick up the pace, since the pawn at d5 is

ready to fall and there is only one open line to the enemy kingMany players would calcuate a sacrifice at here, ut it is g7 thatis the target Kasparov starts the forced variation y attacking ittwice




28Ne6! ! e6; 29e6 dc7

Kasparov is propery obsessed wit g7, and continues to ackaway at it 30 xg7+!! g7; 3 1 Bh6+ h8 Not to belabor te point,ut g7 beckons 32Bg7+! Tis fina sacrifice forces mate 32 32 Kg8; 33Q6 33Qg5+ Kf8; 34Qh6+ Ke8; 35Bg6+ Kd8;36Qh8+ Back resigned

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(83) KPAOV SEIAWANAmsterdam, 1996

Because te modern professiona is a better defender tan inte pas , we find more and more combinations buried in sidevaria-tions to te game Te defense is better abe to spot te combinations in advance, and tey are terefore ess ikey to see te igt of

te cessboard unti te postmortemld4 Nf6; 2c4 e6; 3N d5; 4Nc3 d7; 5Qc2 An uncommon move wic trows Back on is own resources Instead, 5Bg5c6; 6e3 Qa5 woud transpose to te weworn pats of te Cam-bridge Springs variation

5 c4 In view of wat appens, tis surrender of te cenerfor temporary materia gains may be too risky 5 c6 is a soid alternative



GARRY PAROV

6e4 c5; 7dxc5 Bxc5; 8Bxc4 a6; 9a4 Qc7; 100-0

10 Ng4 Back coud aready go for the immediate win of apawn with 0. . .Bx+; .Qx; Qxc4 2.e5 Ng4; 3.Qg3 or2 .. . Nd5 when again 3 .g3 gives White a strong attack. With themove of the text Seirawan hopes to win more than a pawn and toremove Whte s dangerous king's rook in the process. llh3 Nx

Black coud have equaized with 1 . . .Nge5 12Rx Bx+; 13Qxc4; 14Qg3

sudden reversa of his previous poicy of unrestrained gut-tony ut if 4. . .g6 hen 5 .Bh6 eaves Back s kng pinned down inthe center whie 4 . . .00; 5. Bh6 g6; 6. Rd gives White a ter-re attack with moves such as Qh4 or Ng5 in the offing.

15Qxg7 Qc5+; 16hl Q; 17Qg4 Q£7

Black is a cear exchange i.e. rook for knight ahead ut hisforces reman argey dormant and he cannot caste. Such a posi



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tion is meat and drink to Kasparov 18.e5! Offering a further pawnto prepare the murderous incursion Ne4, Back hastens to denyWhite the use of this square. A Morphy opponent woud probaby

have payed 18 Nxe5; 19Nxe5 fxe5; 2Ne4 Qf+; 2h2 ;22Bh6 Qxa; 237+ Ke8; 24.Bg5 and Back is mated as a resutof the combination. After 2 1 . . .R, White wins with 22.7 Qd3;23.Bh6! In decining the materia, Back aows White to maintainthe initiative Athough the win ies far in the future, the resut ofthe strong advance of the epawn is fet for some time.

18 .. .Rg8; 19.Qc4 ; 20.Bg5 h6; 21.Bh4 Qg6. Briefy threaten-

ing mate himsef, but Back has itte chance of deveoping a genu-ine attack. 22.Rgl N; 23.Qb4 Rg7; 24.Ne2.

24. . .b5. Vioent measures to burst free from his straiacket. Fai-

ing this, White simpy tightens the noose with moves such as Nf4and Rd 25.b5 Kasparov had a win here with 25 Nc4 ! Q; 26Bf6Rg8; 27b5 and a crush. 25 . ..Rd7; 26.Nf4. Forcing the back queenback from its active post. 26 ...Qf7; 27 .Rcl Bb7; 28.bxa6 Bx. Thebishop's career is brief. With this exchange, Back specuates thatthe fracturing of the pawn structure around White' s king may givehim some prospects of a perpetua check. 29.g Rda7; 30.Rgl.As Back nears emancipation on the queen's fank, Kasparov

switched fronts. The gfie, which had once been Back's territory,is now to be used as a foca point for the white invasion.

30 . . .Rxa6; 3 1 .Nh5 Qc7. Of course not. 3 .Qxh5 on account of32.Qe7 checkmate 32.Rg7 Ral+; 33.Kg2 Qc2+; 34.B. avingescaped the checks from Back' s brief outburst of activity, White'sattacking formation is now compete. In order to prevent check-mate at e7, Back must pay 34 . Raa7 owever, disaster strkes



GARRY SPAROV

from a different direction, namey 35.Nf6+ Kd8; 36.Qx mate. Aremarkabe feature of this game is that Back ost, without casting,and without having once moved his queen' s rook.

(84) PAROV NIKOLICLinares, 1997

Our fina exampe is another game in which the briiant combinations are partiay submerged, because Nikoic is too sophisti-cated a defender to fa for the prettiest of the tactics . This is typi-ca of Kasparov's abiity to construct such compex combinationsthat even when the defender has a path to defend against immediate threats, the pressure is sti strong enough to force victory.

The resut of the combination is not necessariy an immediatechecmate or win of materia, but rather a situation which is sofavorabe that even the best defense by the opponent must inevitaby fai. The sacrifice, an essentia part of the combination, is oftendecined, but the power of the move is in no way diminished.

le4 e5; 2Nf3 Nc6; 3d4 The opening has been one of

Kasparov's favorites, the Scotch, first introduced in a correspondence match between Edinburgh and London in 824. Interest-ingy, it was the London cub that first tried the variation, but thehonor of acquiring the name strangey went to Edinburgh!

3 exd4; 4Nxd4 Nf6; 5Nxc6 bxc6; 6e5 Qe7; 7Qe2 Nd5; 8c4Ba6; 9b3 g5 An amaing idea, payed by Anand with reasonabesuccess against Kasparov in their 1 995 Word Championship match.The move ooks insane, since it wrecks Back's kingside pawns . owever, after 0.Ba3 d6; .exd6 Qxe2+; 2 Bxe2 Bg7, as payed byKasparov in the stem game, White coud prove nothing. ere,Kasparov comes prepared. 10g3 Bg7; llBb2 0-0; 12Nd2 f6




13.Qh5. Kasparov immediately gets to the heart of the matterBlack's g5 has weakened squares and pawns in the vicinity of hisking That is where Kasparov concentrates his army 13 ...Nb4; 14.h4.

A fascinating combinational situation If now 14 Nc2+; 15KdNxa; 6hxg5 with multiple threats against Black's king

14. . .g4.

Thwarting White's intention to open the hile, but now Kasparovcomes up with a serious threat in another quarter 15.Kdl. We havearrived at the culmination of the operation that allowed Black tofork White's king and rook, and this culmination, by a forced tactical sequnce, now wins material for White Black is now threat-ened with a3, trapping his knight Once it retreats, White will fol-low up with Bd3 and Re , effectively mobiliing the rest of his forces

15. . .c5; 16.a3 Nc6; 17.Bd3 ; 18.Bxf5 Bxe5; 19.Rel. All hasgone according to plan, and White now wins material by force19 . . . d6; 20 .Be4 Bb7; 2 l .Qg4+ Qg7. Tantamount to resignation,but f 2 Kh8; 22 Bxc6 Bxc6; 23 f4 and White wins a piece

22.Bd5+ h8; 23.Bxe5 dxe5; 24.Qxg7+ xg7; 25.Ne4 Rad8;26.Nxc5 Bc8; 27 .Ra2. Apart from being two pawns down, Black isalso unable, in the long run, to salvage his pawn on e5 One ofKasparov's most original and best games



GARR KASPAROV

W!

(53) PAROV BROWNEBanja Luka, 1979

White's pieces do not seem to be attacking the enemy king, butthe key to this position is a sacrifice foowed by a pin

(54) PAROV MARTINOVICBaku, 1980

White to move Concentrate on the queenside and infitrate!




(55) SPAROV ARPOVWO CHAMPIONSHIP, 1985

Even in a Word Championship simpe combinations can beoverooked What did Karpov miss?

(56) PAROV RSO

HIBON TEET, 1995

In our fina task, White' s starting move is perhaps bvious Makesure you work out a of the detais!

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PROBLMS

( 1 ) DE IVIEE MOHYParis, 1863

l...N+!? Is this a combination or a sacrifice? As we have seen,Morphy's play was more sacrificia than combinationa, and in thiscase the sacrifice does not lead, directy, to a checkmate It does,however, produce a winning position 2. Qh4; 3.l. 3Nd2Bxh3; 4Ne4 Bg4+; 5 Kg2 Qh3+; 6Kg Bx and there is nothing tobe done about mate at g2 3 . 3 Qxh3+; 4Kg woud nothave accompished anything

4.Bd2. This was just a waste of time 4Bxf4 Rxf4; 5 Qe3 is critical, and the question here is whether Morphy had found any cearn 5 R! does the trick 4 ...6. ite resied

5B4 4; 6.Qe3. 6Qxf4 Qxf4+; 7xh3 Qx+; 8 2 Qx+;9Kh3 R and mate in 4 6 ...5 is the same win as in the note tomove 4



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(2) MARACHE MOHYUSA, 1857

Watch the knights dance l. . .Ng3! ! ; 2.Qg6 Nde2#.

(3) MOHY DE IVIEREParis, 1858

A sacrifice at h6 does the trick l.Bh6! Rh6; 2.Ng5.



ANSWERS TO THE PROBLEMS

(4) MOHY MONGDNParis, 1859

lQb4! Qc8; 2Qxb7! Back resigned because of 2 . . .Qx7;3Re8#

(5 ) STEINITZ SCOTT

Dundee, 1867

The key here s the pn on the dfe and a8 dagonal. lc4!Bxc4; 2Qd6 Rxd6; 3Bxc5 Re6; 4Rxe6 e6; 5 Bx 6Rcl

Bd5; 7Rc8+ Back resigned



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(6) STEINITZ BLACBUNELondon, 1876

lg6! Qxg6 Qf6; 2Qh7# hg6; 2 Ng5! and the threatof Qh7# wns 2Bxg7 Qxh6+ If 2 Qg7; 3hg wns 3Bxh6,and Whte has an etra pece

(7) STEINITZ CHIGORINWord Championship, Match Havana, 1892

l .Bxg6! xg6; 2 .Qf5+ Kg7; 3.Qxe6. White hasn't merey won apawn he has aso cracked open the enemy she and the enemykng s eposed 3 Qb7; 4d4 Bb8; 5Rgl+ 6Qf5 Bd6; 7c5Be7; 8c6 Back resied




(8) INER STEINITZVienna, 1860

The g square beckons l. . .Qxh2+; 2.Rxh2 Rg1#.

(9) SKER · STEINITZ,Wod Championship (2nd game), 1896

Lasker broke through with l.Nec5+ dxc5; 2.Nxc5+ Kd6? Thisgets mated but 2 Kc7; 3 Bxe7 was not worth paying 3.Bf4+ Kd5;4.Re5+ Kc4; 5.Rcl+ xd4; 6.Re4+ Kd5; 7.Rd1+ xc5; 8.Be3#.




( 10) JW - aris, 1909

1 g4! ; 2Be2 2fxg4 Ng5 threatens the deadly N# 3QdQxh3+; 4Kg N+ is also termina Or 2ex Ng5! when h3 and are indefensible 2 Ng5! ; 3g4 ; 4Rg3 e2

1 1 ) - scw, 193

This is a ong combination, but the pay is forced lR! 6;2Qh5+ Kd8. 2 Kd7; 3 Q+ Be7; 4 N Re8; 5 Rd wins for White,as does 2 Ke7; 3N+! ex; 4Nd5+ Kd8; 5 Bb6++ Kd7; 6Q+Kc6; 7Qc7+ Kb5; 8a4+ Qxa4; 9Nc3+ Kb4; 10Rxa4# 3Q Bd7Diferent checkmates greet the deveopment of the other bishop3 Be7; 4N Re8 (4 Qc7; 5Na4 ; 6Qxh7 Ke8; 7Bb6! Qd7;8Qh5+ 9Ng7+ K; 10Qh8#) 5Nxd6 Bxd6; 6Bb6+ Bc7;




7Rd+ Qd5; 8Bc7# 4Q6+ Kc7; 5 h8 Bh6; 6Nxe6+! e6;7Qxa8 Bxe3+; 8hl

( 12 ) LSKER FOBESROBERTSONChetenham, 1898

The wn s acheved by removng Black's apan 1Rxb5+!! 5,

or b5; 2Qb6+ Ka4; 3Rc4+ Ka3; 4Qb3+ 2Qa7+!! Rxa7;3Rxa7#

( 13) CAPABLANCA FONAROFFNew York, 1904

Blacks poson falls apar aer lNh6+ Kh8; 2Qe5! e5;3Nx+!




( 14) CAPABLANCA MIESESBerin, 1931

The drama takes pace on the back rank l +! ; 2Ne6+; 3Nxd8+ Back resigned

( 15 ) CAPABLANCA YATES

Barceona, 1929

The Whte pawn promotes to defect the enemy queen lRc7+Bd7; 2Q+ Q; 3Rxd7+




( 16) CAPABLANCA KERBerin Speed Game, 1914

l.Ra8+!! Nxa8. a8; 2 c7 Ka7; 3 Kc6 Ka8; 46 K8;5 Kc6 reaches the same position 2.Kc8 Nc7 . The only legal move3.xc7 Ka8; 4.xb6 Kb8; 5.Kc6. Back resigned.

( 17) ALEINE EUWEWord Championship, 1937

.Qh8+ xh8; 2.Nxf7+ h7; 3.Nxe5 would have left White two

pawns ahead and caused Black's imminent resignaton




( 18 ) EINE BOGOLBOWWarsaw, 1941

The kingside gets blasted open with lNxe6 e6 If Bxe6;2Qd8# or Qxe6; 2Rc8+ Bxc8; 3Qd8# 2Rc8+ If now 2 2 Bxc8; 3Qd8+ 4 Qe7+ Kg6; 5 Qxg7+ Kh5; 6 5#

3Rxh8 Or 3 f6; 4 Q+ Ke5; 5 h4 mobilizing White' s

king's rook when the lack of shelter for Black's king means that hemust soon lose 4Qh5+ Ke7; 5Qc5+ ; 6Rxh7+ Kg8; 7 Qe7

( 19 ) ALEINE EEMANUSA, 1924

Our old friend the back rank is quickly exploited l Re8+! N;2Nh6+!! h6; 3Rx+ ; 4Qd8#

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(20) LEINE OPOCENSKYParis, 1925

l.Rxd4 cxd4; 2.Rc6 7. 2 Kg7; 3Rxg6+! g6 (3 fxg6;4Qb7+) 4Qf6+ Kh7; 5 Bx Rg8; 6 Qf5+ Kg7; 7 g6+ K8; 8Bf6+g7; 9Qh6# 3.B R; 4.Rxg6. Wite wins.

(2 1) EUWE NAEGELIZuric, 1934

1 Bxg6+! xg6; 2.Qe4+ 3.e6+ Kg6. 3 4Qe8# 4.+

Kg7; 5.Bh6+! Rx6; 6.Q+ ; 7 .Qx6+. Back resigned. 7 . . .;8Qh7+ 9Qh8+ ; 10 Re5 and Wite wins




(22) EUWE · NESERDubroi, 1950

The ffie must be opened! l.Rg5 g5; 2.Qh8+ Rg8; 3.Rf1+Ke8; 4.Qxg8#.

(23) EUWE ROSSEO

Buenos Aires, 194 7

Before checking at a8 you need to take away Back's fight squareat c7 l.Nxb5! cxb5; 2.Qc5! Nc6; 3.Qd6+ Qc7; 4.Ra8#.

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(24) TACH EUWEAmsterdam, 1923

Black won wh 1 .. .Nc3; 2.bxc3 Qx; 3.cxb4 Rc6; 4.Bxa5 Be2;5.b5 Rxd6.

(25) BOTVIIK SWord Championship,The Hague, 1948

The n egns h l .Rxg7! ! xg7. 8; 2 Bh6 Qe5; 3Qxe5Nxe5; 4 f4 Neg4; 5 Bxg4 Nxg4; 6 Bg5 g7 (6 Rd7; 7Nh5 followed y h3 and Bf6 ) 7 Bxe7 and Whe has a serous maeraladvanage 2.Nh5 Kg6. 2 8; 3B2 wns a pece 3.Qe3. Backresigned.




(26) STOLBERG BOTVIIKSoviet Championship 1940

Back can win with the stunning l. .. Rxh3+! ; 2.h3 d4! Thequeen uses the ightsquared diagona to enter the kingside andfinish off the enemy king

(27) GOGLIDZE BOTVIIKMoscow, 1935

his time the two back ranks are needed 21Rb1+; 3Ke2 Rc2#




(28) LILIENTH · BOTVINNIKMoscow, 1941

It i s not easy to spot l. . .Rg2! ! ; 2.Qe4. .Qxg2 Qh5#. 2 . . .Rxh2+!;3.xh2 Qh5+; 4.Kg2 Qxd1; 5.Bc4 h5 and Black won without muchdifficulty

(29) SMYSLOV · HBNERCandidates' Match, 1983

l.Bxh7 Rxh7; 2.Ng6+ Kg7; 3.Qd7+ 4.R7+ Bxf7; 5.Nxe5

Qd5; 6.Qxa7. White had an overwhelming advantage.



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(30) SMYSLOV · DONNERHvn, 1966

l.x5 Rx5; 2.Rxc8! Rxc8; 3.Bxb7 Re; 4.Nc6 Rd5. 4 . . .R5woud have een etter, ut even so White shoud win after 5.Nxe7+Rxe7; 6.Bc6 Rx2; 7.Bxd7 wit the deady threat of Bc5. 5.Nxe7+Rxe7; 6.Bxd5 exd5; 7.Rxd5 and two extra pawns are too much.

(3 1 ) SMYSLOV · FLOHRSoviet Chmpionship, 1949

Matng cominations in the endgame? Why not! l.g6+! hxg6;2.Rb7#. More resistance is provided y . . .Kxg6, ut after 2 .Rg+checkmate cannot e avoided. 2 . . . Kh6; 3.Kf6 K5 . (3 . . . Rh3; 4.Rg6+Kh5; 5 .8 wins. ) 4 .Rg5+ K4; 5 .Rh8 Rxc6; 6.Rxh7# nor 2 . . .;3.Rcg8 Rxc6; 4.Rg7#.



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(34) MICVarna, 1958

Whie wins wih l.Rxe5+!!. Back ried 1 . .. e5 since de5oses o 2d6+ and afer 2 Ke8 3d7+ Kd8 4 Qd6 or 2 Kd8 3 Qh6here is no defense 2.Qg5+ 2 Ke8 3 Q and 2 37+aso win wihou difficuy 3.Qf6 Rg8; 4.Be6. Back resigned.

If Back defends he fpawn wih eiher rook hen Qd8+ wins

(35) PAABed, 1961

The fork a e6 can hardy be missed so he queen merey has oevacuae ha square wih a hrea or capure l .! 2.Ne6+.




(36) TAL SOLOMISSoviet Union, 1970

Ths s somewhat compcated Whte must break down the doorbefore Black cleans up on the queensde l.Bxg6! bxa2 fxg6;2Rxg7+! Kxg7; 3 Qe7+ Kg8; 4Bxf6 and White wins 2Bxf6 a1Q2 Bxf6; 3 Qh6 andWhite wins 3.h2 Qc3; 4Bx+ h7; 5Bg6+!

h8 5 Kg8; 6Rxg7+ Kh8 (6 7 Qe7#) 7 Qh6# 6Qh6+ Kg8;7Qxg7#

(37) PETROSIAN SPASSKYWod Championship, 1966

The fork agan! lQh8+ x8; 2Nxf7+




(42) SPASSKY SMYSLOVBucharest, 1953

l.Nxg7 Rxd6. . ..xg7; 2.Rg3+ 3.4 gves Whe e ponas does . . .g6; 2.Nxe8 B+; 3.Kf and Black as run ou of usefulmoves. 2.Nxe6 Rxd2; 3.Rg3+ h7; 4.4#.

(43) SPASSKY AVERKINSoviet Union, 1973

Geng o he g7square akes some work on he oher sde ofhe oard. l.Bc7! Rxc7; 2.Qe5.




(44) SPASSKY · DARGAVarna Opiad, 1962

Ts s a nce long conaton wc s suffcently forced sotat all coplcatons can e worked out l.Nxe6! e6; 2.Qxa4+Qb5. 2 Ke7 ; 3 Q4+ Ke8; 4 Qg4 Rf8 (4 Qe7; 5Qa4+ Qd7;6Qxd7#) 5 Qxe6+ Be7; 6Rx x; 7 Rd7 and hite wins 3 Qg4

Qc6. 3 ; 4Qxe6+ Be7; 5Rx x; 6c4! Qc5; 7Rf+ Ke8;88+ B; 9Q+ and White wins 4.xg7 R 5.Rx+ Bx;6.h7 R 7.Qg6+ Black resgned ecause on 76+ Ke7 8Rd6Wte wns 7 Ke7 te sple 8 Rd6 as treats at e6 and 7

(45) FISCHER · DELYSopje, 1967

Wte gves up te excange and control of te ffle ut teconed force of te queen and sop on te dagonals and terook wc oves fro a to te open dfle s overpowerng



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l.Rx+! Qx; 2.Qa4+ b5. 2 .. . Ke7 drops he queen o 3 .Bc+.2 . . .Kd8 akes longer o defea u he wn s sraghforward and s mae n egh! 3 .Rd + Kc7; 4. c4+ K8; .Rd7 c8; 6.Bf4+ Ka7;

7.d4+ c; 8.xc#. 3.Qxe4 Rd8. 3 . . .Rc8; 4.xe6+ Kd8; . Rd +Kc7; 6.6#. 4.Qc6+ Rd; 5.Rd1 Qe; 6.Bg5. Back eged.

(46) FISCER · MIAGMASENSoue, 196

A classc case of parng wh he lady. l.xh+! ere Backresgned ecause . . .xh7; 2.g6+ xg6. (2 . . .Kg8; 3.h8#.) 3 .Be4#.

(4) BISGER · FISCERNew Yok, 1960

l. Qxc3! ; 2.Bxc3 Nxd1; 3.Qd4 Nxc3. The wo rooks and knghare more han a mach for he exposed queensde pawns. 4.b6 Rc5;




e Word Campon u e surey ddn' expec o ge own awayqucky w l.c5! dc5; 2.Bb5 c6; 3.Bxc6 Bd4+; 4.Nxd4 Nxd4;5.b6 N+; 6.R Rel+; 7.Rxel . Bck resigned.

(50) KOV OFIESHSimutneous Exhibition 1991

A ong u effecve comnaon l.N7! A eaufu move osee n a smuaon l . . . 2.Nb6 dey expos e pn 2 .. .Ke6;3.e4! e3; 4.Rfel Nd4; 5 .Rxe3+ ; 6.Qd5+ Qxd5; 7.Nxd5 Ne6;8.Rxe6 xe6; 9.Nc7+. Bck resigned.

(5 1) RPOV CSOMBd Luterberg 1977

Lookng a e seven rank we know e end s near. Te queenneeds o move o e ead of e queue u mus use a crcuous




roue. lN! Nxd7 ...ex; 2.Q2+ Kg8; 3.g3+ K8; 4.g7#. . . .Q8; 2 .R7+ Nx7; 3. 7#. 2Qh2 Kg8; 3 Qg3 Kf7 4Qg7#

(52) TARJAN KRPOVSopje, 1976

Black forces mae or e wn of al We' s peces . 2 .fxe3 g3#.

We can al ou w 2 .Q u 2 . . .Rx+; 3 .gfx3 Qx+ s ardlywor sckng around for. 2 Rxg3; 3Kh2 Q; 4Kh1 Rg1#4 . . .#.

(53 ) SPAROV BROWNEBnj Lu, 1979

Kasparov wasn' even a Grandmaser ye u s comnaonsould e spoed even y an amaeur payer. l Bh7 xh7; 2e6




(54) PAROV RTINOVICBu, 1980

Tere are defne smares eween s poson andMorpys expoaon of de Rveres queen suaon n comnaon numer 3. l.Nc4! A acca ow n e neress of advancnges sraegc cause.

l . . .Rc. ...xc4?; 2.Bxc4 Qf6; 3.Rxd7 R8; 4.Na5 Bc8; 5.Rc7Rx4; 6.Nxc6! R7; 7.Nxe7+ and e wns. 2.Nd6 Rb8; 3.b5cxb5; 4.Nxb Rbxb; 5.Q2! and s a over u e soung.Bc resigned afer anoer en moves.

(55) PAROV RPOVWord Chmpionship, 1985

Karpov lundered no s poson one of s wors accaoversgs. e mssed. l.xd Rxd; 2.Re8 h; 3.Be4. Bc




resgned. After 3 g6; 4 Rxd7 Ba6; 5 Bxc6 Qxc6; 6 Rx s checmte In all alternatve lnes Black loses massve amounts of materal

(56) PAROV RSOhbton Internet, 1995

Yes tere are comnatons n cyerspace! l.Bxh7+ xh7;2.Be7 Qd3; 3.Qh5+. 3Bx s only slgtly etter for Wte e-cause Black as dangerous connected passed pawns on tequeensde after say 3 N7; 4B4 Rd8 wt counerplay 3 Kg8;4.B Nb7. 4 x; 5 Q8# 5.Be7 Bc4; 6.d6 Nd8; 7.Bxd8 Rxd8;7 .Qh4 and Bc resgned a few moves later



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Alekhine Kieninger Game, 2 8Alekhine Opocensky Ex , 2 0Alekine Reshevsky Game, 26Averbakh Petrosian Game, 5 5Barda - Spassky Game, 64Bisguier - Fischer Ex, 47Botterill Tal Game, 54Botvinnik - Batuyev Game, 40Botvinnik Capablanca Game, 37

Botvinnik - Keres Ex, 25Botvinnik - Padevsky Game, 42Botvinnik Portisch Game, 38Botvinnik - Smyslov Game, 44Botvinnik - Tartakower Game, 39Byrne Fischer Game, 67Capablanca Fonaroff Ex, 3Capablanca Havasi Game, 2 0Capablanca Lasker Ex , 1 6

Capablanca - Mieses Ex, 4Capablanca Souza Campos Game, 23Capablanca - Steiner Game, 24Capablanca - Yates Ex , 15Cardoso - Fischer Ex, 48Chigorin - Lasker Game, 1 7D e Riviere Morphy Ex, 1Dubois Steinitz Game, 8

Euwe Alekhine Game, 32Euwe Maroczy Game, 3 1Euwe Naegeli Ex, 2 1Euwe Nestler Ex, 22Euwe Rossetto Ex, 2 3Euwe Thomas Game, 3Euwe Weenink Game, 35

Filip Petrosian Game, 56Fischer Benko Game, 68ischer Bolbochan Game, 71Fischer Dely Ex, 45Fischer Miagmasuren Ex, 4 6Fischer Spassky Game, 69Geller Euwe Game, 33Geller Smyslov Game, 46Goglidze Botvinnik Ex., 2 7

Gurgenidze Tal Game, 50Janowski Lasker Ex , 10Kan Lasker Game, 16Karpov Alburt Ex , 49Karpov - Coo Game, 77Karpov - Csom Ex , 5 1Karpov Georgiev Game, 76Karpov Korchnoi Game, 73Karpov Nunn Game, 78

Karpov Ofiesh Ex, 50Karpov Salov Game, 7 5Kasparov Anand Game, 81Kasparov Browne Ex , 53Kasparov Gavrikov Game, 79Kasparov Karpov Ex, 55Kasparov Larso Ex , 56Kasparov Martinovic Ex, 54



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