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Mikhail Botvinnik vs Grigory Ravinsky
USSR Championship (1944), Moscow URS, rd 3, May-24
Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D41)  ·  1-0

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Feb-13-04  Whitehat1963: Botvinnik's longest in the database.
Jul-24-04  azaris: 94. ♕a6! ♔b4 95. ♔f7 ♕d5+ 96. ♕e6 ♕h5+ 97. ♔f8 ♕f3+ 98. ♔e7 ♕b7+ 99. ♔f6 ♕f3+ 100. ♔g5 and there are no more checks and White wins.
Apr-22-05  sharkbenjamin: I love the way Botvinnik plays Queen pawn openings.
Sep-15-05  Koster: A fascinating ending that Keres analysed for 26 pages. There wasn't much else to do in Russia in those days.
Sep-15-05  Benzol: Botvinnik revealed later that at first he didn't understand this type of ending but it's concluding moves enabled him to find the winning method. He was able to win a game ten years later as a result of this one. See Botvinnik vs Minev, 1954
Dec-04-05  avidfan:


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127...Kb3 128.Qf7+ and g8 next.

or a cross check wins by forcing exchange of queens.

127...Ka3 128.Qf8+.

127...Ka5/b5 128.Qf5+

This is why the weaker king must be at the a1 corner!

Jun-18-18  Omnipotent00001: 82. g6 is mate in 55. 82. g6 a5 83. ba5 b4 and the pawn race is on.
Sep-18-20  FellowChessPlayer: 74..Qc4 turns a draw into a loss
Sep-18-20
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  perfidious: <Omnipotent00001: 82. g6 is mate in 55. ...>

Which I have no doubt, given your concomitant omniscience, you would find OTB.

Apr-18-24  mk volkov: Great endgame skill by Botvinnik.
Apr-18-24
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  perfidious: Botvinnik was nothing if not ruthlessly objective about his play, and wrote an article in <64> during 1944 in which he criticised his play, which he mentions in his annotations to the ending with Minev cited above, in his game collection for 1947-70.
Apr-18-24
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  perfidious: Note: Botvinnik's piece on this game appeared in <Shakhmaty v SSSR> rather than <64>. He noted in the annotations to his win from Minev that Keres was critical of his handling of this game and commented that this was reasonable as he felt he did not understand how to handle this ending at the time.

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