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Reuben Fine vs Max Euwe
Wertheim Memorial (1951), New York, NY USA, rd 1, Jun-03
Catalan Opening: Open Defense (E04)  ·  0-1

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Feb-12-13  jerseybob: This time Fine's former boss prevails. Why did white pass up 18.Rxa3? Not that his game would be perfect even then; far from it, but a piece is a piece.
May-13-15  zydeco: <Jerseybob> Good point. It must have been some strange hallucination by Fine. He thought he'd get compensation for the piece by keeping the king in the center.

My guess is that he'd fantasized something around move 20, about moving a rook to the c-file, then taking with the queen on a7 to divert black's rook, after which Rxc8 is a very pretty mate. But he missed that black's queen gets to d4 and covers a7.

Mar-16-22  Gregor Samsa Mendel: According to The Computer, 18 Bxa3 was best but had to be followed up with 19 e4. Don't ask me why, maybe it has something to do with black's queen no longer being able to go to c4 after 18..dxe4. White still could have survived after this but followed up with a series of apparently subpar moves.
Mar-17-22
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  perfidious: <GSM>, at a glance, it looks as though White would have gotten masses of play against Euwe's king in the line suggested by the silicon monster with such ideas as Qa4 and Re1.

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