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| Aug-23-03 | | JGD: One of my favorite Petrosian games |
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| Aug-24-03 | | ughaibu: Yes, very nice. Unexpectedly powerful and mobile pawns seem to have been a typifying feature in his games. |
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| Sep-27-04 | | GBKnight: I agree, especially as a French Defence player, and an especially good example of how to make something against the Exchange Variation |
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| Nov-28-04 | | vonKrolock: today <ray keene> told following about this game in Garry Kasparov page: <"towards the end of 1966 petrosian played in the havana olympiad on top board for the ussr. this should have been his first major international event after the successful title defence. as it was petrosian won gold medal on top board and led his team to victory. but for this he received scant credit in the western press-they preferred excoriation instead- concentrating on the fact that petrosian ducked out of the critical ussr v usa match and thus did not meet fischer-who narrowly missed gold on top board. but was this fair-no! petrosian had in fact been in the original line up to play black v fischer when the match was first staged-however some dispute had built up around fischer-to do with his sabbath or something-and the usa team defaulted. only when the soviets agreed to reschedule a match they had already won by default did spassky step in to play top board. meanwhile petrosian had played top board as black v denmark-and this is the game for which he should have recived the praise-in los angeles larsen as noted had beaten petrosian 2-0-if there was a game for petrosian to duck it was surely this one-instead he played and won a magnificently tense encounter as black v larsen-this was a game which counted double- a needle game petrosian had to win. it was incredibly tense -i watched it happen-and i can assure everyone that this was far more important in petrosians eyes than any game at that time v fischer."> |
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| Oct-06-05 | | notyetagm: Another Petrosian pawn phalanx. |
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| Oct-06-05 | | weirdoid: The winner generally deserves/ed to win, but I cannot help wondering, wouldn't 35. Rxd3 (returning the exchange) have given white a better chance to survive? Would black still have a superior position instead? I feel like it is around even. Any view on that? |
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| Oct-06-05 | | who: <weirdoid> I thought the same thing. Fritz agrees. To me it's weird that Larsen would play the French exchange, but would transpose the move order. |
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| Oct-06-05 | | suenteus po 147: <Benzol> This belongs in your Game Collection: The Exchange Sacrifice, does it not? |
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Oct-07-05
 | | Benzol: Thanks Peter. Yes, this was one I somehow overlooked. :) |
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| Mar-24-06 | | Mating Net: Fantastic exchange sac by Tigran Vartanovich. Psychologically, 14...Rxe5! must have been a tough blow for White. He wins the exchange, but cedes the initiative and is playing defense the rest of the game. The whole time he's probably muttering to himself, 'I'm up the exchange, I'm up the exchange' or words to that effect. |
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| Mar-24-06 | | CapablancaFan: <Mating Net:> I agree. 14...Rxe5 must have come as a shock to Larsen, but Petrosian knew what he was doing. This one move changed the whole momentum of this game. Now it was Larsen who was thrown on the defense and if you notice he never regained the initiative...never. |
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| Mar-24-06 | | whatthefat: This is a beautiful game. Petrosian plays it with such clarity. Even Larsen's typical unorthodoxy fails to divert Petrosian's master plan! |
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| Mar-24-06 | | goldenbear: <weirdoid>More of a certainty for Petrosian than whether or not his game was won after 35.Rxd3 was the fact that Larsen does not play moves like Rxd3. Seriously, Larsen will kami-kaze his pieces before playing such a move, even if he knows it's his only chance. The resulting game is too barren for tricks and Larsen is the type to believe that that kind of position is necessarily lost. |
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| Mar-25-06 | | whatthefat: <weirdoid>
35.Rxd3 does leave a near even game - black's a shade better, but a draw is probably correct. As <goldenbear> pointed out though, the position is not to Larsen's liking. Nonetheless, it's probably white's best chance to stay in the game.White is in real trouble after 38.f3?! perhaps missing the strength of the reply 38...d4! Instead, 38.Rb7+ Kf6 39.Rd7 gives white some practical chances. However, after 39...Be4! the black king is released. White can try 40.f4 but then 40...Bf3! keeps the game in black's hands. The critical line appears to be 41.Rd6+ Kf7 42.Re5! Re8!  Meanwhile, 38.f4?! is also answered by 38...d4! 39.Rc1 Rd8 and black wins similarly to the game. |
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| Mar-25-06 | | larsenfan: This game is annotated in Secrets of chess defence, by Mihail Marin, a very nice book. There is a whole chapter devoted to ex change sacrifices, and of course, several examples from Petrosian's games. A good reference if you like this subject. |
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Mar-25-06
 | | keypusher: Playing over the game I kept wondering why Petrosian didn't take White's pawn on d4.... After 47 Rd8+ Kc4 I finally saw why! |
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Mar-25-06
 | | ray keene: i had the privilege of watching this game live-it was a needle game for petrosian since he had just lost twice to bent at the piatigorsky cup- a third loss wd have more or less finished his reputation as champion-many people write that petrosians last good result as world champion was his title defence v spassky in 1966-however they overlook his gold medals both team and individual on top board for the ussr in the 1966 and 1968 olympiads-where-taking both into account- he finished ahead of fischer portisch gligoric hort uhlmann najdorf reshevsky larsen and many others |
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| Mar-25-06 | | Mating Net: <ray keene> Fantastic bit of information, thanks for sharing it with us. Do you recall your reaction to Petrosian's 14...Rxe5! by any chance? |
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| Jun-16-06 | | wharfrat: I think Larsen avoided 35.Rd3 because he was convinced it was dead lost for White. After 35...Bd3; 36.Qd3, Rd8, Black will first establish a passed pawn and force White to blockade it. Black will then combine the threat of pushing the passer with attacking the other weaknesses in White's position (a4, h3, f2, the 1st rank, the light squares around White's king). White has absolutely no counterplay and he won't be able to cover everything. For a very informative treatment of this type of position, check out the section on Alekhine in Mihail Marin's "Learn from the Legends." |
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Jun-16-06
| | ray keene: sorry i missed the query for a while-this was the game of the olympiad-the tension was terrific and when petrosian sacrificed on e5--which i watched- it was not a big surprise because he had sacrficed the exchange so often against spassky in their match from 1966. btw i think if white re-sacs on d3 it must really be a draw.black can play but white shd hold. very interesting also is to meet 21---Ng4 with 22 Bxa7!? I ANALYSE THIS GAME IN TREMENDOUS DEPTH IN MY FORTHCOMING BATSFORD BOOK PETROSIAN AGAINST THE ELITE. |
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| Jun-16-06 | | RookFile: Beautiful game by Petrosian. He put up a score of 9 wins to 4 against Larsen in his career. |
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| Jun-16-06 | | Boomie: A Petrosianesque answer to 35. Rxd3 is Be4. The threat of white square domination is too compelling. 35. ♖xd3 ♗e4 36. f4 ♗xd3 37. ♕xd3 ♕d7 38. ♖e5 ♖d8 39. c4 d4 40. ♖xc5 ♕xa4= |
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| Aug-06-06 | | notyetagm: With 47 ♖d8+ ♔c4 48 ♖c8+ ♔d3 Black uses the White d4-pawn to shield his king from the White rook checks. This idea is called <The Sheltering Pawn> in one of Chernev's books. |
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| Aug-06-06 | | notyetagm: <ray keene: ... I ANALYSE THIS GAME IN TREMENDOUS DEPTH IN MY FORTHCOMING BATSFORD BOOK PETROSIAN AGAINST THE ELITE.> So how is your book coming along, GM Keene? |
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| Aug-06-06 | | positionalgenius: <raykeene>I recently read your book about the 1990 kasparov-karpov title match,"Clash of the Titans".It was very good.Where can I find other WCC books by you? |
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