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Savielly Tartakower vs Salo Landau
Rotterdam quadrangular (1931), Rotterdam NED, rd 6, Dec-29
Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov Variation (E12)  ·  1-0

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Nov-24-05  fred lennox: Tartakower's versatility was amazing. My Best Games reveals near equal enthusiasm and gusto in all three phases of the game and various strategies. This game shows him in a patient, blockading game.
Nov-24-05  paladin at large: <fred lennox> Thanks for pointing out this one, too. I really like Tartakower's play - he reminds me of Spassky.
Nov-24-05  CapablancaFan: <fren lennox> You are clearly a Tartakower fan.
Nov-24-05  Averageguy: A well played strategical game by Tartakower. Reminds me a little bit of Capablanca vs K Treybal, 1929.
Dec-06-05  notyetagm: Yes, <Averageguy>, very reminescent of that famous Capablanca game.

72 ♖h8! attacks the defender of the g6-mating focal point (Black h7-queen) with a non-attacker (White d8-rook) from a square not in the defensive complex (h8-square) and <removes the guard> by pinning this critical defender to the king, creating the terrible threat of 73 ♕g6#. Black has no defense:

72 ... ♕xh8 73 ♕g6#
72 ... ♔g7 73 ♕xh7#
72 ... ♖g7 73 ♖xh7+ (73 ♕xf6+ ♖g6 74 ♕xg6#) ♖xh7 74 ♕xg6#

Dec-06-05  notyetagm: Tartakower employs the standard idea in a White e4-d5 versus Black e5-d6 pawn chain of stopping Black from playing the freeing ... f7-f5 pawn thrust by playing g2-g4 and putting his Bishop on d3 in front of his c2-queen.


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Dec-06-05  notyetagm: Tartakower must have had fun playing this game. Here is the position after 48 ... ♖h8.


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Black is bound hand and foot and can threaten nothing. To give you an idea of Black's impotence, his previous two moves were 47 ... ♖h8-h7 and 48 ... ♖h7-h8.

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