Gennady Kuzmin vs Tigran Petrosian (1977)

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Gennady Kuzmin vs Tigran Petrosian
USSR Championship (1977), Leningrad URS, rd 8, Dec-??
French Defense: Rubinstein Variation. Blackburne Defense (C10) · 1-0

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Mar-15-12		whiteshark: pwnd0z3r

Aug-18-13		nescio: Position after 40.Be2 click for larger view Up to this moment Black defended excellently. White wasn't able to exploit his pawn majority on the queenside (25...Be4!) and had to switch his activities to the other side with 36.Rh4?! But Perosiamn dealt with that as well (38...g5!). He could now have set up a rock-solid position with ...Kh8!, ...Rg8-g7, and ...Ng8. No doubt plagued by time-trouble he chose the plausible 40...Rd8 (the rook is activated and Bd3 prevented) after which the black queen gets into difficulties and the fate of the game looks inevitable. Ironically it is an attack on the queenside that decides the game after all.

Jul-07-15		Albion 1959: After 40.Rd8 ? Kuzmin was able to steer the game into a winning endgame. A more determined resistance was offered by Rg8 ! with a view to Rg6 & Rg7 to defend against the mate threat. Petrosian may have been in time trouble here, which may explain why his usual defensive ability did not find the correct line. The actual pawn ending is by no means clear-cut and some of the variations are problem-like and tricky. A rare loss for TP in the USSR Championship !

Jul-07-15		RookFile: What a really good game. All three results were possible for Kumin - win, lose, or draw. Brave play.

Dec-15-16		Albion 1959: Move 52.c5! Petrosian captured on c5 with the rook and went onto a pawn ending. Had he captured with his pawn instead of the rook, play could have continued: 52.c5 bxc 53.Rxa5 c4 54.b3 c3 55.Kd1 Heads off the c-pawn and the two connected passed pawns should win for white:

Jan-20-18		Grandma Sturleigh: Pawn endings can be really difficult. In this one, 56...h5 was the losing move. Instead 56...e4 draws, for example 57. b4 f4 click for larger view 58. gxf4 axb4 59. Kxb4 h5 and both sides will promote with a drawn queen ending. 54...e5 is also a mistake (54... f5 first is correct) because it allows 55. Ke4 f6 56. Kd5 h5 57. Kxc5 f5 58. b4 and White wins as in the game.

Dec-11-24		Petrosianic: <Pawn endings can be really difficult. In this one, 56...h5 was the losing move. Instead 56...e4 draws,> That's right, and it is confusing because Black needs to play h5 in both lines. So, why is it right in one line and wrong in the other? It's all in the timing. Black has to play it at a time when White is forced to spend a move playing gxf4.

Dec-11-24		perfidious: <Grandma Sturleigh: Pawn endings can be really difficult....> This is why it can be irritating indeed to read the incessant 'Gotcha!' comments of one poster who posts strings of moves with the implication being that one or both players should have seen everything to the end in lines which, very often, only the likes of <fishie> can analyse to a conclusion. Matter of fact, I am surprised he has not commented on this game, but there are thousands such which would not pass muster. In time, he would have come round.

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