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| Nov-23-02 | | ughaibu: Drukenknight: a good reason not to play cxb2. The main reason that I prefer Kf7 is that white doesn't get to capture the e5 pawn so the knight stays under attack and black gets the initiative. Unless the knight goes to c2 (where it isn't dangerous) black can still play c2 followed by Qc8-f5 and Rd8. Black is a piece up and now fully developed, I dont see why there should be any difficulty winning. |
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| Nov-23-02 | | drukenknight: okay ugh. you're going with another move I take it, 22...Kf7 then? I have to reset this one, I'm more into that Karpov/Miles game right now. |
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| Apr-24-04 | | weary willy: (this should be john e littlewood - not his son paul - born ca 1956) |
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| Sep-14-04 | | RisingChamp: This was a nice game.While it was going on many ppl had crowded around the board thinking it would be a famous victory for Littlewood.He had just overlooked the c2+ tactic after Nf5.Against the World Champion he should have been a lot more careful. |
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Sep-14-04
 | | ray keene: i watched this game being played when i was 13. it was incredibly exciting and all the spectators-having overlooked botvinniks c2+ resource-were convinced littlewood was going to win |
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| Jan-02-09 | | Ychromosome: The position at move 21 makes me nervous just playing over it! |
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| Sep-17-09 | | keithbc: C2+ resource?? |
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| Sep-23-09 | | SimonWebbsTiger: Rest in Peace John Littlewood |
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| Sep-23-09 | | erimiro1: What about 20.N-f5 with a mate threat on g7? |
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| Sep-23-09 | | erimiro1: Ah - missed 20.-c2+ 21.K:c2 Qc8+ and the poor horse is lost |
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Sep-23-09
| | ray keene: as i said-i watched this game being played and everyone in the audience overlooked the c2 + resource as well |
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| Sep-30-09 | | jerseybob: This system played by Botvinnik, a combo Dragon-Najdorf, is fascinating. I have a dim recollection of a game Browne played against Stewart Reuben in some late 60s British tourney, and he at some point moved a minor piece to d5. I think. And there's the game Fischer-Reuben in this database in which Fischer dispenses with all the Yugoslav niceties like f3 and Qd2 and just kills black down the h-file. |
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| Nov-22-11 | | King Death: < erimiro1: Ah - missed 20.-c2+ 21.K:c2 Qc8+ and the poor horse is lost> This was the point White overlooked when he went into this, as Botvinnik mentioned in his annotations. It's very easy for even an outstanding attacker like Littlewood was to miss this kind of resource at the start of one's analysis. |
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| Jul-13-14 | | samsloan: I cannot understand why Littlewood played 13. cb3 instead of the standard ab3. |
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| Jul-13-14 | | parisattack: The Dragondorf seems to be regaining popularity. I believe Carlsen essayed it a few times three or four years ago? |
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| Jul-14-14 | | zanzibar: <samsloan> Boy, I must be out of the loop - how is 13.axb3 more standard than 13.cxb3? I played out the Tree Window (using SCID) from the Dragondorf 7...a6, where 305 games had it (3.9%). (I'm using <MillBase> with 1.6M games.) By the time I got to move 13, there were only 2 games in the database which matched, and both played 13.cxb3. Looking with Stockfish 4 DD 64, out to 22-ply, gives a slight preference to playing 13.Nxb3 (+0.16/22), vs 13.cxb3 (+0.00/22) or 13.axb3 (-0.24/22). My naive impression is that the open a-file isn't going anywhere, and you'd need a tempo, or even two, to get the king out of the way safely. Why not fight it out of the c-file? (And not play 17.h4?) |
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| Jul-14-14 | | zanzibar: Botvinnik had nerves of steel playing this, and the c2+ fork setting up the fork is quite beautiful. Ironically, Black would have been better off allowing it versus what was played. Best would have been 20.Nc2, which shows Botvinnik's steel nerves, since he had to calculate the king safe after, let's say: 
click for larger view20.Nc2 Qc7 21.gxh7+ Kh8 22.Ne3 c2+ 23.Nxc2 Rad8 24.Rxd8 Rxd8 25.Ne3 Rc8 26.a3 Bd5 27.Ka1 Be6 
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| Aug-30-14 | | RookFile: As others have said, Botvinnik showed nerves of steel in this game. It requires supreme confidence in your defensive abilities to play this way. |
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Dec-30-19
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Remember when this game appeared in a collection by the US GM Larry Evans. 7...a6 is definitely too slow (7...0-0 with the usual mayhem is standard), and Littlewood could have pulled off a major upset. 13.cxb3 is a thematic move in the Dragon, but here it allows 20.Nf5?,c2+!; 21.Kxc2,Qc8+ winning the Nf4. With 13.axb3, Black probably would have tried a different defense, perhaps 13...h5!? or ...b4!? In any case, rather decent defensive brilliancy by Botvinnik. |
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| Nov-24-21 | | newzild: <samsloan> and <zanzibar> The main idea behind 13. cxb3 is to prevent Black's pawn roller from crashing through on the K-side. This can be achieved by moving the Nc3 and playing a3. Then if Black ever plays a4, White simply plays b4. And if Black ever plays b4, White plays a4. However, Littlewood abandoned this strategic idea when he went for 14. Bh6, giving Black time to play b4 before he was ready to respond with a4. |
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Nov-24-21
 | | Dionysius1: I think K-side and Q-side are leftover terms from descriptive notation, and we should replace them with a-side and h-side or similar. It's too easy to slip the pen with "K-side" just cos that's the side the king is currently on. |
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| Nov-24-21 | | Atking: Facing the dragon sure of his power, little wood e5 is shaking... Why do I have to go to this square when the simple 16.Nce2 was possible...? |
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Nov-24-21
 | | MissScarlett: <I think K-side and Q-side are leftover terms from descriptive notation, and we should replace them with a-side and h-side or similar. > I hear that on the chess24 broadcasts with Howell and Houska, they only refer to right and left sides, lest the King and Queen sides confuse the casual viewer. |
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| Nov-24-21 | | Brenin: <MissScarlett>: White's right is Black's left, and vice versa, so I don't see how this is less confusing. Call them east side and west side? |
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Nov-24-21
| | MissScarlett: White's east is Black's west, and vice versa, so I don't see how this is less confusing. Call them King and Queen side. |
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