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Isaac Boleslavsky vs Efim Geller
9th Soviet Team Championship Final-A (1963), Moscow URS, rd 2, Aug-13
Spanish Game: Closed Variations. Closed Defense (C96)  ·  1-0

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May-16-06
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  Gypsy: <32...Kf7?> Strange. Geller, out of all people, should have known that his king would probably get hunted down. Why not 32...Qxc8 33.Qxd2, where the game goes on? Possibly time pressure? Now, Black Q is lost.
Oct-01-14  jerseybob: Gypsy: Seems like TP alright, with black so focused on the mate threat at g2 that he saw nothing else.
Aug-19-18  Ricosupercapo: Very clever.
Aug-20-18  Granny O Doul: Kind of the reverse of the fatal 15th game of Spassky-Hort in 1977. There Black was so hypnotized by the winning move 35...Qg4 that he just stared at the board till he lost on time. Here, Geller is so hypnotized by his imminent loss on time that he bangs out the losing move 31...Qg4.
Jul-09-24
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  WTHarvey: White mates in 3.


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37. ?

37...♔d6 38.♗a3+

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