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David Bronstein vs Isaac Boleslavsky
USSR Championship 1961a (1961), Moscow URS, rd 5, Jan-17
King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation. Normal Defense (E81)  ·  1-0

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Jul-01-11  Everett: With 31.Bd3 Bronstein could have held on to the pawn and tried to convert it, yet goes into complications starting with 31.Rc6!?

Six moves later, white emerges with an advantage, perhaps winning, in the endgame, with two passed pawns and squares to penetrate with his K for the exchange.

Jan-11-13  SChesshevsky: <yet goes into complications starting with 31.Rc6!?>

I'm not sure Bronstein saw the win with the great combination starting 31. Rc6 but he probably saw the connected passed pawns and B posts on c6e6 as a big plus. I think key was the advanced position of the pawns, there's a rule of thumb that if a pp gets to the sixth rank with some protection its going to promote. If the a&b pawns were farther back, I'm not sure he would have gone for it.

Everett, I noticed your question on the Boleslavsky page about when he started working with Petrosian. I think they started with the Botvinnik match.

May-13-17  zydeco: A glimpse of the old Bronstein - he was generally unrecognizable at this phase of his career.

I think 31.Rc6 is a good move. After 31....Nxe4 32.Rxa6 Rxa6 33.Bxb5 is completely winning, so Boleslavsky has to engage in his own complications.

By the way, 30.Bxb5 runs into 30....Reb8 31.b4 Bxd5

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