Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian vs Mikhail Botvinnik (1963)

Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian vs Mikhail Botvinnik
Petrosian-Botvinnik World Championship Match (1963) · Queen's Indian Defense: Classical. Traditional Variation (E17) · 1/2-1/2

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Apr-04-08		Knight13: 83. Kd7 Rxg2 is a Lucena position! :-) Black loses.

Nov-07-08		Honza Cervenka: This was not an easy task to hold such an ending against Petrosian. No big fireworks but still great struggle.

May-12-09		Petrosianic: 83. Kd7 is refuted by KxK.

May-12-09		shalgo: Shereshevsky analyzes this game in volume two of Mastering the Endgame. He describes it as a sort of preview of the famous game five--Petrosian starts with virtually nothing and yet almost grinds out a win in the ending. This opening variation is also featured in Mednis's From the Opening into the Endgame.

Jul-16-09		nymsso: Wow nice and instructional endgame...

Jan-11-11		Blunderdome: In the New In Chess book on this match, this game is presented with notes by A. Kotov, who gives 21. Rab8 (which transposes to the moves given here after the rooks are doubled on the b file). Any way of finding out which is right?

Oct-09-12		Derived: Nice one, very instructive in all all stages of the game.

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