Gordon Thomas Crown vs Alexander Kotov (1947)

Gordon Thomas Crown vs Alexander Kotov
ENG-URS 1947 · Sicilian Defense: Closed. Fianchetto Variation (B24) · 1-0

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Nov-02-04		Benzol: <AdrianP> Thanks Ade for uploading this one. Kotov must have wondered what he'd struck here. Maybe Gordon Crown's best game and certainly one he deserves to be well known for.

Nov-02-04		ray keene: yes its a wonderful game by a player who died very young and wd have been able to go on to become a gm.

Nov-02-04		Benzol: <ray keene> Ray, what did Crown die of? Was it blood poisoning or something like that? I don't think he was very old either.

Nov-03-04		Lawrence: <Gordon Thomas Crown (1929-47), a brilliant English prospect of the early 1940s, who died of peritonitis just two months after the Britain-USSR match in which he defeated grandmaster Alexander Kotov. > Tim Harding

Nov-03-04		Benzol: Thanks <Lawrence>.

Jun-20-07		Capthahn86: I thought of a title for the Game of the Day,"The Thomas Crown Affair."

Jun-20-07		Capatin17: nice tittle ^^

May-21-08		whiteshark: It might be that <23.f4!> was a stronger move. click for larger view It is threating Bf8 and Qb2.

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