David Bronstein vs Paul Keres (1955) King David

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David Bronstein vs Paul Keres
"King David" (game of the day Nov-18-2006)
Gothenburg Interzonal (1955), Gothenburg SWE, rd 7, Aug-25
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Huebner Variation (E41) · 1-0

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Nov-11-06		jamesmaskell: This game was awarded the first brilliancy prize of the Goteborg Interzonal Tournament 1955.

Nov-18-06		Peligroso Patzer: Fantastic game between possibly the two greatest players never to have become world champion.

Nov-18-06		kevin86: Bronstein and Keres both belong in the short list of players who fell short of the championship-similar to Zukertort,Korchnoi,and Morphy-and in other fields:Elisha Gray (second inventor of the telephone) and the Buffalo Bills (losers of four super bowls).

Nov-18-06		playground player: How can anyone fault Morphy for failing to win a title that didn't exist in his time? He took on the best players in the world and wiped up the floor with them. Surely that made him the de facto world champion!

Nov-18-06		Fast Gun: This was the last time that Bronstein defeated Keres and after 15 games he had a 7-2 plus score against Keres: However over the next 20 years and 15 games Keres won two more games with 13 draws !! The last nine games between these two players ended in draws, mostly tamely and quickly as older grandmasters tend to do:

Nov-01-07		whiteshark: <15...Nh7??> was the losing move and the black position is getting hopelessly very fast. Best defense was <15...Nc5!> click for larger view Evaluation ??

Nov-01-07		whiteshark: Igor Bondarevsky beautyfully analysed <16.Rae1> as (only) winning move click for larger view I'll check it... :D

Nov-17-07		chancho: Bronstein and Keres. That says it all.

Jul-24-08		Ulhumbrus: Irving Chernev annotates this game in his book "The golden dozen". His comment on 39 Rh6+ is something like "White's first check of the game, and it is decisive"

Nov-03-08		Kareem: computer suggested 38-NxR: 38- NxR NxQ 39- RxN+ Kh7 40- Rd7+ Kh6 41- Rh8+ Kg5 42- Rg7+ Kf4 43- Rf8+ winning.

May-06-11		LIFE Master AJ: This is game # 25, (page # 56) of the book, "The Golden Dozen," by Irving Chernev. WOW! UNBELIEVABLE! AMAZING!! (Running out of adjectives.)

May-06-11		LIFE Master AJ: This game reminds me of a movie: "The Clash of The Titans." (cheezy flick - but a great game)

Feb-09-14		tranquilsimplicity: It's a pity that Keres as he matured completely relinquished aggressive and creative Chess opting to play quietly and defensively, and extracting wins from his positional mastery. This resulted in many draws in his record. A reason perhaps he has been forgotten as one of the greatest Chess players the world has seen. Keres and Bronstein are to me the greatest Chess players never to be world champions. I have also observed that Bronstein's rating does not give a true picture of his strength. Even to date, many 2700 GMs cannot produce the quality of Bronstein games. #

Feb-11-14		tranquilsimplicity: Well..actually - "completely relinquished"- is an exaggeration. Keres by his own admission in an article I have just come across, describes himself as of the combinatorial ilk. I know this to be the case from my own experience of playing through his games but chose to jump on a bandwagon that had my previous view. You will still find brilliantly aggressive games that Keres played right until he passed in 1975. #

Feb-11-14		SChesshevsky: <You will still find brilliantly aggressive games that Keres played right until he passed in 1975.> Keres could still unleash a pretty good attack once he saw it. Keres vs J L Watson, 1975 A lot of his more positional play later in his career probably could be attributed to his age and he wasn't in great health. It just saved a lot of energy. But if I remember right, he won this tourney and a big one in Russia just prior and then died within months. A great player.

Feb-06-15		mcgee: User: kevin86 >>Bronstein and Keres both belong in the short list of players who fell short of the championship-similar to Zukertort,Korchnoi,and Morphy-and in other fields:Elisha Gray (second inventor of the telephone) and the Buffalo Bills (losers of four super bowls<< and Jimmy White, six-times runner-up in the world snooker championship (1984, 1990-4 inclusive)

Feb-19-17		Eduardo Bermudez: Quite significant that Bronstein had a favorable overall result in his games against Keres and Korchnoi !

Mar-11-17		andrea volponi: 14...Cc5!=

May-12-21		RadioBoy: Why not the crowd-pleasing 38. NxR NxQ 39. RxN+ etc?

May-12-21		Granny O Doul: @RadioBoy: The spectators were too noisy and he didn't want to reward them.

Oct-13-23		rmdalodado: This is one of the nine games of Bronstein featured by Chernev in his book Golden Dozen. It deservedly won the 1st brilliancy prize. Chernev, in his annotation of the game considered White's 11th move ♘b5 !! "A stroke of genius! ... The knight's leap, at first glance purposeless, is actually the beginning of a profound series of moves. The knight's move is linked, strange as it may seem, with a bishop sacrifice at the other end of the board, which sets off the fireworks." He concludes the annotation with the statement "A modern immortal game"

Nov-18-24		andrea volponi: best defense was 14...Nc5! (=)

Nov-18-24		saffuna: <andrea volponi: best defense was 14...Nc5! (=)> Yes. Strange to see a player of Keres' level make an error like 12...Nh7 in the opening.

Nov-27-24		andrea volponi: 14 Bxh6!? and now the best defense is 14...Nc5! (=) .

Mar-21-25		andrea volponi: 14 Bxh6! gxh6 ?! - Qd2 Nc5! ( polugaevsky ) -16 Rae1! (bondarewsky )...Nd3 -Bxd3 cxd3 - Nf5 Be4 - Nbd4 Re8 - Nxh6+ kf8 - Qg5 Bc5! - Rxe4! Rxe4 - Ndf5 ke8 - Qg7 Qc7 - Qxf6! (b4 burgess 25...Bxf2!+ = )...25 d5 - Qh8!+ Bf8 - Nxf7! +- .

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