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David Bronstein vs Alexander Kotov
USSR Championship (1948), Moscow URS, rd 19, Dec-13
Semi-Slav Defense: Marshall Gambit. Main Line (D31)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Jul-26-05  Resignation Trap: The correct result of this game is "1/2-1/2".

Botvinnik in his red notebook made this comment: "Triangle with 4.e4. Kotov declined the sacrifice. Incautious play by Black allowed White to gain 3 pawns against 2 on the queenside. Then there followed completely unconvincing, cautious play with marking time, exchanges, but retaining the advantage. After the exchange of queens, forgot to bring up the king! Draw.

There's a decisive game for you! Does he have genuine grandmaster technique?"

For Bronstein's next tournament, go here: Game Collection: 17th USSR Championship - Bronstein's Momentum .

Sep-20-06  ikipemiko: The result coould not be 0-1, or maybe there are more moves
Sep-20-06  Resignation Trap: <ikipemiko> Many of the results from this tournament are incorrectly registered on www.chessgames.com , but the moves are otherwise correct. For a crosstable with the correct results go here: http://www.ruschess.com/Rusbase/USS... .
Sep-05-08  Resignation Trap: Here's a photo of this game right after Bronstein's 40th move: http://www.chesspro.ru/_images/mate... .

Interested spectators are Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush (left), Paul Keres (right) and Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky (far right).

Aug-26-11  birthtimes: On move 30, Bronstein would have won had he moved his king to f2, followed by Ke2, Qc4, and the further advance of his queenside pawn majority.
Aug-29-24  PaulPetrovitj: This game is an excellent example of how to play with a Queen-side pawn majority. Excellent defence by Kotov, which ultimately saved the game for him. This game was used by Pachman as a good example for play in this kind of positions, in his Modern Chess Strategy (in my case I use the German edition). One must consider the circumstances under which it was played, last round encounter between the two leaders of the tournament.

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