| Jun-16-07 | | waddayaplay: Aronin adjucated his 41st move. Instead of playing Rxc6, he thought he could win in the pawn endgame. Had Smyslov played as expected, with 45...Kf7, white had come to the conclusion that he would have advanced his king to the queenside and won. However, Smyslov surprised him with 45..hxg and 46...g4, and if white now would try his luck on the queenside with 50.Kc4, black would even win after ..f5! |
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| Feb-04-10 | | AESTRADAR: 45.g4 this pawn ending is almost a study when Aronin made this move he was sure to win but Smyslov replay 45...hxg3 supressing the counterplay associated to ...f6-f5 o g5-g4 now the white king intens to go to c4 |
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Feb-17-10
 | | whiteshark: "...Aronin had a totally winning position in the last round against Vasily Smyslov and therefore did not seriously analyse the adjourned position. He missed a hidden, very neat, drawing variation found by Smyslov, who had done his homework brilliantly, and had to settle for a draw, missing qualification by half a point for the Interzonal Tournament in 1955. Aronin's style of play reminds me of Mikhail Botvinnik and Semyon Furman, very positional and safe but occasionally also using his combinative talent." —David Bronstein , The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Ar... |
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| Feb-18-10 | | ycbaywtb: thank you for sharing this story, it's the little things sometimes |
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Mar-04-10
| | whiteshark: " This dropped half-point cost Aronin an Interzonal qualification, <and haunted him for the rest of his career. He was never the same player again>. " -- Stephen Giddins, 101 Chess Endgame Tips
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| Aug-04-10 | | BISHOP TAL: The importance of this game to Aronin and, what I see at the board im suprised he diddnt take it more seriously, If somthing is going to go wrong with his win,after the forced peice trade, its going to be on his kingside. |
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Jun-15-12
 | | Cemoblanca: "In the old days when games were adjourned after 40 moves, there were a few top grandmasters who never resigned before resuming the game, even if they were a queen down! Some said that the opponent might have an accicdent and not survive the night. There is a famous case: the game Aronin -Smyslov, USR Ch 1951, was adjourned in a completely winning endgame for Aronin, who would win a medal in the Soviet Championship and qualify for Interzonal. He and his friend celebrated the victory so hard (in the famous Soviet style reastaurant Praga) that in the morning he fell into a fantastic Smyslovs trap and destroyed his entire chess career! But the main reason to not resign in a lost position was given by Yugoslav GM Milan Matulovic: he did not want to see his loss in the morning newspapers! Generally he never appeared on the next day, not even to check whether his opponent was alive." ~ GM Adrian Mikhalchishin |
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| Jun-20-12 | | vinidivici: with my calculation, Aronin had a big chance to win. i would do 42.Rxc6. |
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