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Tigran Petrosian vs Andrey Smorodsky
Georgian Championship (1944), Tbilisi URS
English Opening: King's English. Four Knights Variation General (A28)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Jan-31-04  suenteus po 147: This is one of my favorite draws. You can actually see Petrosian working towards the stalemate as every move is calculated, not to gain ingress against his opponent, but to keep his opponent from expanding his game and controlling the board. Exchanges are equal in everyway, and never at the sacrifice of his pawn structure. Amazing study here.
Jan-31-04  Dick Brain: I wonder why Petrosian with White would want a blocked-position draw against this man? This guy aint Bobby Fischer.
Jan-31-04
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  tamar: Nice pawn pattern at the end. Petrosian was 15 when this game was played.
Feb-01-04  Catfriend: <DB> Don't forget it's Petrosian of 1944... And he never felt a draw is worse than a victory.
Apr-18-21  phenstyle: Petrosian was up 3 points positionally, too bad he didn't have the technique to convert here. The major mistake was 30. Rxd8, this helped black get the queen quickly onto the critical d file and remove one of white's active pieces. Winning was 30. Ne2!! and now there's too much pressure along the d file and black's rook on a5 is a clown out of the game/not active. Besides the mistake only inaccuracy to me was Bf1 which was really passive.. sometimes a move like Bf1 is the best defensive move but here's it completely unnecessary.
Dec-22-23  AaronHunt: Hats off to his opponent for finding the only defence in the position though after 31. Ne2 with the classy Ra5 to a7 to d7. Really a wonderful defensive combination to hold the draw.

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