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| Sep-03-09 | | AnalyzeThis: Pretty much a textbook display of how white wins these positions by pushing the h pawn down the board. |
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| Mar-28-10 | | ROO.BOOKAROO: Sacrificing the Rook on b5 and pushing the h pawn forward with 25. h6 is also nice, straightforward stuff that make not come smoothly to the regular club player. |
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| Mar-30-10 | | PeterB: Fabulous game. Smyslov makes Dr. Botvinnik, the "iron logician", look like a beginner. 6.b4 must be the fruit of many hours of preparation! And tactically Smyslov is very sharp indeed. |
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Mar-30-10
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: I never would have seen most of this, but following Smyslov's moves, the whole game looks trivially easy for him. Remarkable, given the opponent. |
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| Apr-01-10 | | TheChessVids: Wasn't Smyslov supposed to be a positional player? |
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Apr-01-10
 | | micartouse: Botvinnik had a Fischer-like infatuation with sharp, aggressive openings with the Black pieces. Here is a pure example of it, but Smyslov was more than equal to the occasion. |
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| May-07-10 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: When we some games KARPOV x KASPAROV match and compare it with the highquality of this game, seems that chessworld had left something in the past. The Qxe5 and h6 moves are wonderful. |
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| Feb-16-11 | | TheRavenPK: Can someone explain me what follows after 6..cxb4 7.axb4 Bxb4 ? I have absolutely no clue :D or was it just a bluff? :) |
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Feb-16-11
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| Apr-02-11 | | PSC: <TheRavenPK: what follows after 6..cxb4 7.axb4 Bxb4 ?> 6...cxb4?! 7.Nb5! then 7...Nc6 8.axb4 Bxb4+ 9.c3 is the mainline. |
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| Apr-03-11 | | PSC: I've annotated this game here: http://patzerseescheck.blogspot.com... |
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| Apr-27-11 | | bronkenstein: <PSC: I've annotated this game here: http://patzerseescheck.blogspot.com...; Very interesting , short but informative :) |
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| Apr-28-11 | | PSC: <bronkenstein> Thanks, I prefer verbal explanations - I'm not into just posting reams of computer-generated analysis and pretending it's my work, far too dull! |
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| Jun-07-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: 7...cxb4? leads to 8.Nb5!
According to ECO (and many other books) White gets a decisive attack. |
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| Jun-07-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: I think the end result should have been 19.QxR/e4!!, Black Resigns. |
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| Jun-07-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: Very surprising.
I am amazed.
This wonderful effort - one of Smyslov's finest ... has never been "The Game of The Day," nor has it been featured as a POTD. Strange, weird, and soon to be corrected. (I hope.) |
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| Jun-07-11 | | bronkenstein: Have you ever wondered why modern GMs don“t prefer French ? Well , Smyslov refuted it by a simple plan : You take the h2 pawn, and push. |
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| Jun-07-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @bronkenstein (June 7)
It's not strictly true. Vitiugov plays the French and there is a recent French book he authored for the Bulgarian publishers "Chess Stars". Moskalenko has also authored some books and plays the French. I guess the reason is the preference for dynamic responses, seeking to win the initiative. I play the French but know it is far tougher to win than the Sicilian Najdorf. There might be a question of solidity. Some French Winawer lines leave the K-Side and black squares destroyed (fine example here) which never happens in e.g. the Berlin Ruy Lopez! Botvinnik's opening was lousy here, though, but we have the privilege of hindsight. |
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| Jun-07-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: Incidentally, I think Vaganian and Lputian are the only GMs who venture the 5...Ba5 line and have done so for 20+ years. Botvinnik's Nd7-f8 idea is on the scrap heap. |
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| Jun-07-11 | | bronkenstein: SimonWebbsTiger , speaking of modern french , you forgot Ivanchuk and me. And on this game , http://patzerseescheck.blogspot.com... is very well commented ( by both players , Tal and Fischer ) improvement (10. ... Nc6 instead of BotvinnikĀ“s Nd7 ) , even including few photos (credits to Harvey Kelly ). If i remember well , Botvinnik mentioned in his bio that he prepared this variation , including 10. ...Nc6 , for his match against Bronstein , and simply forgot about the move 3 years later. |
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| Jun-07-11 | | PSC: <bronkenstein > Thanks, but I just had to figure out where in the game the photos were taken (1.e4 and 7...Ne7). In <Botvinnik - Smyslov: Three World Championship Matches> Botvinnik writes that he'd prepared 10...Nd7; 11...Qc7 for his match against Bronstein in 1951, there's nothing about 10...Nc6; he says he forgot his analysis and didn't play 11...Qc7, finding himself in trouble after 11...Nf8?!. |
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| Jun-08-11 | | bronkenstein: You are right PSC , and it is all there , in your comment http://patzerseescheck.blogspot.com... . I“ve been through that , and , same as Botvinnik did , I forgot =) |
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Nov-21-11
 | | Garech: Fantastic game; as AJ pointed out, I am amazed it has not featured as GOTD yet and will recommend something now. Damn these unpunnable Russian names!! -Garech |
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| Mar-20-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Guess-the-Move Final Score:
Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1954.
YOU ARE PLAYING THE ROLE OF SMYSLOV.
Your score: 31 (par = 31)
LTJ |
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| May-11-12 | | pericles of athens: whew! now that's how you play the winawer! beautiful. |
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