Vasilios Kotronias vs Viswanathan Anand (1986)

Vasilios Kotronias vs Viswanathan Anand
Dubai 1986 · Queen Pawn Game: Veresov Attack (D00) · 0-1

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Oct-03-07		Shams: Vishy gives up the bishop pair to double white's pawns, then waits to castle and spends a few moves grabbing the weak doubled pawn. then he advances his kingside pawns provocatively and nips another center pawn, still not even having looked at his own king. for his third course he then castles right into the teeth of white's attack, self-pinning his queen at least twice and completing the ruination of his kingside pawns with 25...gxh4! then a few moves later, the queens are forced off and black is just winning. I rather think I'd have to kill myself if I played white in this game.

Apr-15-12		Everett: Looks like an improved French Winawer for Black, as Bronstein played here... A Anokhin vs Bronstein, 1963

Nov-07-12		perfidious: Perhaps Kotronias had thoughts of taking the kid out of the main lines of the Veresov by avoiding the more common 4.Nf3 or 4.f3. Little did he know what disillusionment awaited him at the hands of the youngster, who handled White's feeble attacking tries with ease. All the good books tell you not to play ....c5, then relieve the tension with ....c5-c4, but this position seems an exception, as White winds up in (as noted by <Everett>) an inferior Winawer French type of structure, where he lacks the central and kingside play which compensate for his structural disadvantage. By the time White manages (at the cost of a pawn) to play e4, he is firmly on his way to perdition.

Nov-07-12		nolanryan: impressive victory until you realize Kotronias was only 8

Nov-07-12		perfidious: <nolanryan> As Kotronias was born in 1964, I rather doubt that.

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