Sep-20-03
 | | refutor: good forceful play by botvinnik |
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| Sep-21-03 | | skakmiv: Why did white resign? |
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| Sep-21-03 | | Diggitydawg: White resigned because of 26..e3!; at this point black is positionally overwhelmed. If you only look at a material count, white appears to be equal to black. But notice how Black has absolute domination of the central territory, while white has only gained space on the queenside wing, away from being able to threaten on the kingside wing. Black has the two bishops, while white has a weak knight sitting on the backrank, which is also a target for capture. The key point in this game was 21..Bc6 where Botvinnik begins to wrest domination of the dfile from white. A further error by white is 23h4?, which gave black the tempo it needed to complete his domination of the dfile and also allows e3, which creates all sorts of threats against white. A better move for white would be to develop the knight to c2, where it could be used defensively to fight the advance of black's e-pawn to e3. When white saw he could not prevent e3, he resigned. Games like these are why I hold Botvinnik in high esteem. I remember reading a quote by Spassky saying that "Botvinnik hated to be forgotten" which Spassky said sometime during Fischer's ascendancy. I hope games like these ensure Botvinnik's legacy. Another thing that amazes me was that Botvinnik was a proficient engineer and did not devote himself to chess exclusively. I highly recommend Botvinnik's 100 games for anyone's reading pleasure. There is a lesson about the level of hard work it takes to move from being an ordinary master to the world champion, a lesson that can be applied outside of chess. |
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| Jun-15-06 | | babakova: When I play black I lose because I play black. When I play white I lose because I am Bogoljubow. |
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Jun-15-06
 | | keypusher: During this tournament supposedly Bogoljubow said to a group of masters, <you're all patzers. I lose to you only out of bad luck. But Botvinnik beats me fair and square.> |
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Nov-20-06
 | | tamar: "White plays the whole game with the resignation of a lamb under the threat of the butcher's knife." Bogoljubov had trouble against the young guns, losing to Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Fine and Flohr, if I remember correctly. Alekhine also veat him here. |
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Jun-07-08
 | | Ulhumbrus: To Fred Reinfeld from his book "Chess masters on winning chess" in his introduction to this game: Botvinnik "...plays like a magician; his moves are simple, clear, effortlessly spontaneous. And yet, once the opening is over, every move is a sledge-hammer blow.Only the greatest masters in their prime have this knack of making superb chess look easy." (Reinfeld) |
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Jun-08-08
| | Ulhumbrus: To quote Fred Reinfeld from his book "Chess masters on winning chess" in his introduction to this game: Botvinnik "...plays like a magician; his moves are simple, clear, effortlessly spontaneous. And yet, once the opening is over, every move is a sledge-hammer blow.Only the greatest masters in their prime have this knack of making superb chess look easy." (Reinfeld) |
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| Jun-11-08 | | vanytchouck: In the DVD "secret weapons of the champions", the 23th move is a4.
Who is correct? |
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Feb-18-09
| | Ulhumbrus: After 25...Bd2 26 Qb1 e3 27 fe Bxe3+ 28 Kf1 ( Alekhine) 28...Be4 is not the best. Black wins at once by 28...Bxe1! 29 Qxe1 Bxg2+! 30 Kxg2 Qxe1 |
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| Jul-11-09 | | ToTheDeath: Great game! The difference in positional understanding between the two players is vast and the course of the play demonstrates that. <14...g5!> Not the prelude to a kingside attack, but a flank jab to attack the center. <15.Be5?> Appalling nonchalance about giving up the two bishops and ruining his center. 15.Be3 was required. White was counting on his rook raid to the 7th rank but as Botvinnik shows this is just a fantasy and it is Black who decisively penetrates down the D line. This is practically a miniature but it is a strategic gem. |
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Nov-27-09
 | | Fusilli: The annotations by Alekhine are instructive and teach what White should be aiming for, and preventing, in this type of set up. Notice that he doesn't give Botvinnik's moves any ! signs. There are only question marks for Bogoljubov, suggesting that he basically blew the game and Botvinnik played only natural moves. |
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| Nov-27-09 | | AnalyzeThis: That was Bogo's role. In the circus, every now and then, it's necessary to send in the clowns, and he was happy to serve in that capacity, whether he was getting slapped around by Alekhine, Capablanca, Botvinnik, or someone else. |
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| Feb-17-12 | | King Death: < AnalyzeThis: That was Bogo's role. In the circus, every now and then, it's necessary to send in the clowns, and he was happy to serve in that capacity, whether he was getting slapped around by Alekhine, Capablanca, Botvinnik, or someone else....> At the time this game was played Bogoljubow was 47 and well past his prime. It was another story 10 years before, <AnalyzeThis>, or should I say, sockpuppet of <RookFile>. Bogo at his best was a tough out but had trouble with the very best the same way everybody else did. Then there was his greatest success in this event which was missing only Alekhine and Nimzowitsch of the top players: Game Collection: Moscow 1925. |
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