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Viktor Korchnoi vs Boris Spassky
Leningrad 1948  ·  Sicilian Defense: Dragon. Levenfish Variation (B71)  ·  1-0


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Feb-02-06   MorphyMatt: What does white do after 12... Qe6?
Feb-02-06
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  Boomie: 12...Qe6? 13. Nc7+
Feb-02-06   MorphyMatt: oooooppppssssss!!!!
Feb-02-06   Jim Bartle: Yeah, terrible for an 11-year-old to blunder like this.
Mar-17-06   DeepBlade: 12.Nd5 is the best move in this game.
Not does it threathen a fork with Nc7, but it undermines the Black Queen.

12.Nd5 Be7 13.Nxf6+ Bxf6 14.Qxg4 <White takes the undermined Queen>

12.Nd5 Qxf3 13.gxf3 Nxd5 14.exd5 and we are back in a position where I have thoughts like ''What to do now?''

Apr-20-06
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  mccarthpm: spassky loses the knight-hence the resignation
Apr-20-06   szunzein: 12-....Kd8 saves the knight
Apr-20-06   szunzein: Kasparov MGP part 5, but it's worthless to keep playing that position against Korchnoi
Jun-27-06
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  mccarthpm: this is a simultaneous-spassky dropped a piece in a major championship at an early age and resigned immediately-
Jun-27-06   offramp: <mccarthpm: this is a simultaneous-spassky dropped a piece in a major championship at an early age and resigned immediately->

A simultaneous major championship?

Jun-28-06
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  mccarthpm: it is the second game in spassky's collection
Aug-27-06   guidomiguel: so black does lose a piece right?
The knight is overworked.
Aug-31-06   slomarko: no Kd8 saves the overworked knight
Nov-11-06
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  outplayer: <Deep Blade> Are you really deep? 12...Qf3 13.Nf6(13.gf3??) Ke7 (13...Kd8 14.gf3) 14.Nd5+ followed by gf3 and White is simply a piece up.
Jan-30-07
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  fm avari viraf: This game reminds me of my game played in the Challengers against the twin bros. IM Pert at Hastings in 2003 & also in my analysis I have quoted this game. I had a winning position but the game was drawn.
Jan-18-08   jovack: I read somewhere an analysis by DeepBlade.. where if the black queen first takes the white queen he can get his knight back (from white's knight checking the king on f6) by Ke7, taking back on f6 subsequently after white's pawn retakes the queen... you missed the inbetween move that saves the knight --> Nd5+ followed by gxf3 = up a whole knight.

Black's only defense is Kd8. If knight takes on f6 anyway, the weak e1h4 diagonal provides black's queen with an unanswerable fork, regaining the material. Kd8 thus saves black in MATERIAL. Black still has a losing position though. With accurate play from white, black's stranded king will prove fatal. In Spasskij's position i would have definitely played it out to the bitter end hopefully catching white somewhere tactically in the mid-game... against a player of Korchnoi's caliber, this would be futile though.

Mar-05-08
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  frank124c: Spassky forgot one of the most basic rules in chess "Don't be a goose and leave a piece loose!"
Oct-09-08
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  frank124c: Beautiful decoy!
Feb-04-09   WhiteRook48: instructive game by Korchnoi
Feb-04-09
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  talisman: isn't this illegal according to ages??
...i mean at least in Georgia?
Feb-16-09   WhiteRook48: and then Spassky demanded them to bring on Fischer...
Apr-26-09   sfm: As many has pointed out, 12.-,Kd8 saves the night. (13.Nxf6, Qh4) The position is very bad, but sometimes we manage to draw very bad positions.
Jul-04-09
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  Knight13: 9...e5 should definitely be avoided.
Aug-14-09   kooley782: Well, Spassky was only 11. Even prodigies make mistakes like this sometimes.
Sep-23-09
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  tpstar: In the faulty analysis department, "The Complete Sicilian: Volume Two" by the late Attila Schneider on Page 15: "11. Qxf3 Qg4?? An astounding oversight, whereupon a small combination in Capablanca's style follows. (11 ... Bg7 12. 0-0 0-0 13. Be3 Ng4 14. Rad1 Nxe3 15. Qxe3 exf4 16. Qxf4 Bxc3 17. bxc3 Qe6 was necessary with about even chances.) 12. Nd5!! and Black resigned because he cannot avoid the loss of a piece."

Maybe chess authors and book editors should spend more time here. =)

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