David Bronstein vs Mikhail Botvinnik (1951)

David Bronstein vs Mikhail Botvinnik
Botvinnik-Bronstein World Championship Match (1951) · Dutch Defense: Classical Variation (A84) · 0-1

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Sep-21-06		Resignation Trap: April 10, 1951 Before the game, Botvinnik repeated comments in his journal that he used earlier: 1) Remember the assessment, fight for an enduring initiative, harassing moves, technique. 2) Work and don't miscalculate. 3) Complete composure - <time>!! Make a move when everything is clear! Let's go!"

Sep-21-06		Resignation Trap: Botvinnik's shortest post-game assessment so far: "It all turned out as was needed - because he helped!"

Mar-23-08		Knight13: 11. fxe4 e5 and black's better, in my opinion.

May-07-09		Fanques Fair: Hello, don´t you think there´s a good number of dutch games in this match ? I like to play it myself, and it got black good results in this match... I wonder why it almost disappeared from grandmaster play nowadays. It has the interesting idea of a couterattack by black in the kingside, although it can lead sometimes to dubious positions. One of the strategic themes for black is to play e5, which permits the c8 bishop to start playing... I prefer the Classical, Rubinstein and Leningrad variations rather than the stonewall... the fact is that it must be not so bad as it was played by both Botvinnik and Bronstein at the match, with at least reasonable results for Black !

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