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David Bronstein vs Mikhail Tal
43rd USSR Championship (1975), Yerevan URS, rd 5, Dec-??
Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Szen Variation (B44)  ·  1-0

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Feb-13-04  Whitehat1963: Hard to believe these two creative geniuses played a game that took this long to decide.
Feb-13-04  fred lennox: Well, by move 14 Tal did set up the hedgehog which is a tough nut to crack. I feel he was inconsistent, as if he was getting impatient. With 20...e5 and 22...b5 he makes it easier for white. 26 f5 is a good move.
Feb-12-06  Whitehat1963: I can't get over this game. Incredible.
Jun-03-09  Brown: This straight-forward line with Bf4 and Nd2 for white was brought to master practice by Ljubojevic. According to this database 12.Rc1 is a novelty. The plus side of it is that it inhibits the normal b5 and d5 breaks in the hedgehog. <fred lennox> I don't see a move that doesn't lose material besides 20..e5

All the moves from 50 on are beyond me, but the middlegame had some nice nuances, for instance:

With 16..Bh4, black is trying to swap DS bishops, a favorable trade for black. White is willing to pitch the c-pawn to prevent it, and now has two good bishops with 22.a3! Black has lost time and white has organized his forces around the d5 weakness in black's camp.

It is now white's turn to ask for an exchange with 24.Bd5!

Instead of 28..Bc6, I wonder if black could have tried <28..b4 29.axb4 Bb5 30.Nxb5 Rxb5> with some more space for the pieces, or <28..b4 29.Nd5 Qd8 30.Nxb4 Bb5> which again give black more activity.

Jun-03-09  Brown: Does anyone have a strong program to analyze <38..Rc4> for black? It seems this move would keep black's game a bit tighter. The text allows 39.Qd3!, forcing the following moves, for <39..Ke6 40.Qh3+ and Qxc8>
Sep-17-14  tranquilsimplicity: Nice little plan by Bronstein; daring Tal to fall for 120...Bxb7, and then 121.Qf1+ forking the Black King and Rook thus winning the game. If Black foresees this move and avoids it as Tal did with Bc6+, he cannot prevent the b pawn from queening, a move later. Sorry for stating the obvious but I have at times failed to spot how a game is won but benefitted from a simple explanation by one of us. #
Oct-15-20  Straclonoor: <86.Qf6>? Bronstein turn on wrong way.

86.b7! goes to win more more faster. 86.Qe7 also good

Analysis by Stockfish 051020:

1. +- (13.73): 86.b7 Rb5 87.Qe7 Rb1 88.Qxh7 Ke3 89.b8Q Rxb8 90.Qa7+ Kf4 91.Qxb8 Be4 92.Qa7 g5 93.Qf2+ Kg4 94.Qg1+ Kf5 95.Qxg5+ Ke6 96.Qg4+ Bf5 97.Qg8+ Kd6 98.h5 Bd7 99.Qg6+ Kc7 100.Qg7 Kc6 101.Qxe5 Bc8 102.Qe4+ Kd6 103.Qf4+ Kc6 104.Qe5 Kb7 105.h6 Ka7

2. +- (5.11): 86.Qe7 Ke3 87.Qxh7 Rd6 88.Kc4 Rd4+ 89.Kb5 Be4 90.Qe7 Rd3 91.Kc5 Rd5+ 92.Kc6 Rd4+ 93.Kc7 Kd3 94.Qa3+ Kd2 95.Qa5+ Kd3 96.Qb5+ Rc4+ 97.Kd6 Bb7 98.Kxe5 Kc3 99.Qd7 Rc5+ 100.Kf6 Bc6 101.Qe7 Kc4 102.Kxg6 Rb5 103.Qe3 Kb4 104.h5 Ka5 105.b7 Ka6 106.h6 Rxb7 107.h7

May-03-22  Zugzwangovich: The pun for this game should have been "'Tis the Szen".

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