Svetozar Gligoric vs Milan Matulovic (1967)

Svetozar Gligoric vs Milan Matulovic
Palma de Mallorca 1967 · Benoni Defense: Classical Variation. Main line (A73) · 1-0

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Feb-09-04		Whitehat1963: Excellent performance by Gligoric.

Feb-09-04		catfriend: Yep. 30.:c5!! is nice!

Jun-23-06		LivBlockade: I was surprised that Gligoric made no attempt to prevent 19...b5. I thought Blacks position looked OK after that, but went downhill the next few moves. The exchange sac with Rc5 looks very strong and thematic. In the final position, after ...Kf8, White mates in 3 beginning with 43. Rf6+.

Oct-07-07		notyetagm: Now this is what I call supporting your passed pawn with your pieces. Position after 40 c4xe6+: click for larger view

Oct-07-07		notyetagm: In the recent World Championship game Anand vs Kramnik, 2007, White (Anand) got a passed pawn on e7, as shown below. Position after 24 d6xe7: click for larger view Marin annotated that this advanced passed e7-pawn would probably win the game for White if the queens were still on the board. But without the queens on, Black was able to round up this pawn rather easily, leaving White to defend a difficult endgame. Now consider this game, after 40 c4xe6+. Position after 40 c4xe6+: click for larger view With the queens still on the board, White (Gligoric) is able to combine the power of this pawn with threats to the Black king, winning in fact by a forced mate. I think that this fragment is a great example of exactly what Marin was saying about the power of advanced passed pawns with queens on and their weakness with queens off.

Oct-16-07		armis: Greetings I have some annotations to this game. It says that in this particular situation ( after black's a6 ) white can afford to omit the stereotyped a2-a4, saving time to concentrate his forces in the center and on the kingside. This one is a bit tricky for me to understand, hopefully stronger players can explain this Also it says that 18. ...Re8?! is a dubious move becase white is in time to regroup his pieces: Bf3-d1!-c2 with the point being that after b5 white will be in time to play Nd1!-e3-c4. However if black had gone 18. ...b5! first then white wouldn't have Nd1 because the bishop would be on d1. Beautiful game by Gligoric cheers

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