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Vladimir A Savon vs Boris Spassky
USSR Championship (1962)  ·  Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Bastrikov Variation (B47)  ·  0-1
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jun-25-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  quovadis: Strange and amazing that Spassky resign here , in fact he has a clear win , because after 24... gxN , white cannot play 25.QxN searching a mate on g7 or h8. if 25.QxN Qxh3 mate !!. and if 25.BxB Qxh3 mate. and also if 25.Kh2 BxB 26.KxB QxQ 27.BxQ Ne4 !!. if 26.QxQ NxQ 27.KxB Nc5 Black has an extra rook !!! .
Jun-26-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  sneaky pete: <quovadis> The result is given wrong here. The tournament table of the XXXth USSR championship, Erevan 1962, says win for Spassky. Nf5-h6+ opens the road for Qd7 to h3. Savon, seeing this, resigned before Spassky could play .. gxh6.
Jul-06-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  chessgames.com: We fixed the result to this game.
<ughaibu> you might want to remove this game from your "World champions lose miniatures" collection.
Jul-06-04  ughaibu: Thanks.
May-29-13  JosephThorne: I dont understand. Savon it looks like its a won game, however, you have O-1 instead of 1-O. Is this an error?
May-29-13  Zonszein: Spassky won as it's explained above
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