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| Mar-24-05 | | Robyn Hode: Yes, if 25...cxd6 26 cxd6 attacks both Black's rook and queen. Petrosian has tremendous pressure on the Black queenside. |
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| Jun-11-05 | | lentil: why no simply 24. Qxa7 |
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| Jun-11-05 | | aw1988: Good question. Why not 24. Qxa7? |
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| Nov-15-05 | | Averageguy: <aw1988> <lentil> Because 24.c5 leads to the exchange winning combination. |
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May-07-06
 | | Ulhumbrus: 6...exd4 concedes to White an advantage in space. Botvinnik is hardly likely to make such a concession for nothing, but this concession intends a plan. If White establishes a pawn centre by playing e4, Botvinnik can attack White's centre by ...f5 and this may be his plan. Unfortunately for Botvinnik, Petrosian responds by keeping his e4 pawn back, and this suggests that Petrosian realises that Botvinnik has intended the plan of playing ...f5 against a pawn centre after e4, when conceding an advantage in space to White by the capture 6...exd4. |
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| Nov-09-06 | | HOTDOG: 24.Qxa7 Bc6! 25.Bxc6 bxc6 26.Rc2 Rfe8 and 27...c5 with good counter-chances,because White can't play e2-e3 which blocks the Bf4(Roberto Allievi and Walter Temi,115 Petrosian's games) |
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| Jun-17-07 | | GrandPatzerSCL: Please tell me, why do they call this the Great Snake? I haven't heard this animal designation.. Hedgehog, Dragon, Orangutan, Lion's Jaw, what else is there, people?? |
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Jun-17-07
 | | Open Defence: i'm sure this could make it into one of Dr Schiller's Pterodactyl classifications.... |
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| Jun-17-07 | | euripides: Interesting how Petrosian simpply vacates the long black diagonal here. Similarly, in Petrosian vs Gufeld, 1960, he plays around the c1 square that his opponent is attacking -an idea that Gufeld praises very highly in his notes. |
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Dec-11-07
 | | whiteshark: <36...Bc6> is a kind of resignation, allowing white to proceed into a won  endgame. Nice technique by Petrosjan, though.Alternatively <36...Ba6 37.Rd2 b6 38.cxb6 axb6> should have been tried...
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Dec-11-07
| | whiteshark: The move <23...Qb8> seems to be the only playable one here, prepairing the consolidation with 24...b6:
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| Mar-21-08 | | Knight13: 24. c5!! is freakin' strong. I could almost say White won because of that move. |
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| Aug-24-08 | | eisenherz: A game with some blunders.
The first one being 23...  e8 by black. As pointed out by whiteshark 23...  e8 is much stronger with the following possible continuation: 24. h5 b2 25. g5 e6 26. c2 e5 27. hxg6 xg6   28... f4. 
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| Aug-24-08 | | eisenherz: The second blunder being 24.c5 by white.
Better would be: 24.xa7 f6 (24... c6 25. xc6 bxc6 26.xd6  ) 25.xb7 Dd7 
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| Aug-24-08 | | eisenherz: after 24.c5 the best answer for black is 24... b6 25... dxc5 The game than evolves from a position at move 25 to a  position at move 34. Black should have than played 34... a6 35...b6 or play the move suggested by whiteshark 36...Ba6 with the same idea, what would still hold the black position. By damaging its pawn structre with c-double pawns and allowing white a passed a-pawn, black sealed its fate in the endgame. |
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| Aug-27-08 | | eisenherz: Sorry, at my first comment I meant 23... b8 as <whiteshark> wrote. |
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Mar-25-09
 | | notyetagm: 25 ?
click for larger view25 f4-d6!
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25 ... c7xd6 26 c5xd6 <discovered attack>
click for larger viewPetrosian's 25 f4-d6! is an *excellent* example of the <FILE OPENING PAWN TRICK>, exploiting the alignment of pieces White c1-rook + White c5-pawn + Black c7-pawn + Black c8-rook. <PizzatheHut: 25. Bd6! A nice example illustrating Petrosian's excellent tactical ability.> Indeed. |
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| Dec-26-10 | | pericles of athens: i'm as impressed with Bd6! as you guys are. never would have found this line myself. fritz gives the position as +2.8. would make a nice puzzle of the day, eh fellas? |
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| Dec-27-10 | | AnalyzeThis: Practically speaking, Botvinnik's mistake was to leave his queen on the same file as the rook, which made a tactic like Bd6 possible. |
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Dec-27-10
 | | sevenseaman: Petrosian, the positional master; here at the 25th the contortionist is the subtle extortionist, taking bits off the pie! |
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| Mar-15-11 | | k009ris: Hile all!
Its all well said indeed , I just add one more comment : why take on d5 after winning the exchange and allow some counterplay with.f4?
Simply 27.e3 and then advance on Q-side.
Black has to lose a pawn anyway.
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| Apr-05-11 | | soothsayer8: 36...Bc6 seems like such a bad move to me, why would black allow white to double his pawns like that? It became such a liability. I especially liked how white was able to use the doubled pawns as a blockade for his own purposes. |
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Apr-11-11
 | | Domdaniel: Black's first small mistake - the kind of positional autopilot move that no engine is really able to grasp - is the 'obvious' recapture 8...Nxc6. There are at least 50 games in the database with the position after 8...bxc6, but this is the only example of the Knight recapture. By accepting doubled pawns with ...bxc6 Black gets rapid counterplay on the b-file and good squares for his pieces. The line in the game is a bit too passive, ceding d5 to White. |
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| Aug-27-11 | | positionalgenius: Excellent game. Petrosian was a one of a kind player |
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Jul-17-12
| | Ulhumbrus: 6...d6 avoids conceding an advantage in space to White. Botvinnik has said thst he was nervous during the week following an incident during the fifth game of the match and that may explain the move 6..exd4 |
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sac: 30.Rd4