Eero Book vs Samuel Reshevsky (1937)

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Eero Book vs Samuel Reshevsky
Kemeri (1937), Kemeri LAT, rd 17, Jul-08
Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation. Main Line (B05) · 1-0

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Dec-31-06		Resignation Trap: Actually the game ended 72.b7 Rg5+ 73.Kc4 1-0.

Dec-31-06		RookFile: I guess Reshevsky wasn't booked up for this one.

Apr-21-07		keypusher: <Resignation Trap> I see you did a tournament collection -- what was your source? This impressive Rook-and-pawn ending is featured in Fine's <Basic Chess Endings>, though he breaks off at move 59 with the comment that the win is academic. Presumably Reshevsky played on to the bitter end because this last-round defeat cost him clear first in the tournament. As <RT> notes on the Vladimir Petrov page, he still finished in a tie for first with Petrov and Flohr, ahead of Alekhine, Fine and Keres. There is a stalemate trap at the very end -- 72. Rf8+ Kb7 73. g8/Q?? Rxg8, but Book doesn't fall for it. 72. ...Rb4+, which apparently was not played, is no trap at all -- White can just take the rook.

Apr-21-07		Resignation Trap: <keypusher> My source was the original book of the tournament, which was published in German.

Jan-08-16		whiteshark: The Book of Samuel

Feb-17-16		Nova: Apparently, after 23. exf6, the position is featured on the cover of one of Book's Chess Books called "Mestarin Mietteitä” (in Finnish), which in English (according to Google) means "Master's Reflections." I learned of it from a post on Facebook from Nigel Short, asserting the rarity of the book. Quite the look for a cover, with a game that the author beat Reshevsky!

Jun-02-19		cunctatorg: This Book of Samuel: a great and fascinating game!

Jan-10-22		jerseybob: Two of Reshevsky's 3 losses in this tourney came as black in the Alekhine including against AA himself, a game that had an immortal finish.

Apr-09-22		Whitehat1963: How soon were they out of book?

Apr-09-22		nizmo11: Eero Böök was creating his own book here: He writes in his autobiography, mentioned here, that he knew Flohr's games against Botvinnik in Moscow 1936 and Nottingham ( Botvinnik vs Flohr, 1936 ) and had prepared a new continuation that avoids the exchange at f3. According Böök, move 6.Ng5 was described in the tournament book as "The most interesting and important theoretical novelty which at the same time had a decisive effect on the outcome of Kemeri's tournament."

Apr-09-22		nizmo11: According Book's game collection, the game went 27. Rd6 Nb8 and not 27.Rd5 Nb8 as given here. What does the tournament book have? click for larger view The difference is that 27.Rd6 protects f6-pawn, so 27...Nb8 is the only defense. After 27.Rd5 27...Nxf6 was possible, while after 27...Nb8? White has 28.Nxe5 Rxd5 29. Nxg6, winning. It seems unlikely that the both players would have missed this. Book does not comment on 27...Nb8 but writes after 26...e5 that Reshevsky showed [after the game?] that 27.Qc2! would have won quickly.

Apr-10-22		Chessdreamer: The tournament book gives 27.Rd6, not 27.Rd5.

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