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Walter Shipman vs Reuben Fine
Blindfold rapid transition exhibition (1945), New York, NY USA, Jan-22
Nimzo-Indian Defense: St. Petersburg Variation (E43)  ·  0-1

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Jun-17-16  BwanaVa: I was directed to this game and its play by NM Steve Greanias. After watching it, and others like it, I don't understand what it was that kept White players (not just Shipman) playing into this line.
Jun-17-16
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  perfidious: Even in the 1980s I got to face this, with all the comfortable play Black gets against that structure.
Jun-18-16  Granny O Doul: 7. O-O was Denker's pawn sac played (introduced?) successfully against Fine the year previous. Don't take the pawn, I guess.
Dec-19-21
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  Phony Benoni: Played in a ten game exhibition of blindfold rapid transit given by Fine at the Manhattan Chess Club on January 22, 1945. The games were played consecutively, not simultaneously.

Fine won nine games, conceding a draw to Edward S Jackson. . Other opponents, in the order in which they faced Fine, were Cornel Tanasy, Julius Hallgarten, Raoul Echeverria, Robert Byrne, Max Pavey, Walter Shipman (the game on this page), George Kramer, Donald Byrne, and Fine vs H Helms, 1945

Since Fine had Black in at least one game, there may have been color alternation.

Sources:

<Cehss Review>, February 1945, p. 21; March 1945, p.8-0.

<Brooklyn Daily Eagle>, January 25, 1945.

Dec-19-21  Granny O Doul: Speaking of Greanias, I remember a game he played vs. Michael Rohde in this line, circa 1987. He accepted a draw by repetition where it seemed that simply recapturing a piece would have forced White's resignation.

Sorry to remind him, if he's watching.

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