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| Jun-03-06 | | Everett: As far as this game goes, Geller gives up his dark-squared bishop for a rook in a position where there are no open files, leaving white with a dark-squared bishop, no less. Probably wasn't hard for Spassky to make the decision to let the sac exchange happen |
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| Sep-06-07 | | drukenknight: does it not strike anyone that 29...g3 is a waste of a move? What happens if 29...Qg8? |
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Oct-05-07
 | | Phony Benoni: At move 30, it's hard to believe that White's Bg2 will be poised to strike the decisive blow just a few moves later. |
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Oct-06-07
 | | IMlday: Another example of an h5 super♗ Chigorin vs Rubinstein, 1903 |
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Mar-22-08
 | | Mateo: Wonderful game. So many things to analyse widely.
What if 13...h6 14.Be3 g5 15.Nhf3 Nxf3+ followed by Bxb2. Black wins a pawn. Is there enough compensation for White? Maybe White should play 16.Qxf3 Bxb2 17.Rab1 followed by h4. |
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Mar-22-08
| | Mateo: 18...gxf5!?, although a bit sharp because it weakens Black's King side, could be interesting. |
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| Mar-22-08 | | ughaibu: Mateo: after 13....h6, how about 14.fg6 hg5 15.Rf7 Rf7 16.Qh5? |
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Mar-22-08
| | Mateo: 20.Rbe1!? was of course a wild decision, but it seems that Geller lost his way later. For instance, 26...exf5?! seems dubious because the opening of the 'g' file will be useful for White only. |
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Mar-22-08
| | Mateo: <ughaibu: Mateo: after 13....h6, how about 14.fg6 hg5 15.Rf7 Rf7 16.Qh5?> On move 15 of your variation, 15...gxh4 wins another piece. And, I guess, the game. |
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| Mar-22-08 | | ughaibu: Yes, it doesn't look so good. |
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Mar-22-08
| | Mateo: <Calli: Supposedly the save for Geller is 1...Nd4! 32.Bf1 Rbb7 33.Ng4 Bxf5!> Or 33...Rg7 giving back the exchange. |
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Mar-22-08
| | Mateo: <drukenknight: does it not strike anyone that 29...g3 is a waste of a move? What happens if 29...Qg8?> Simple and good. But, like Calli pointed, 31...Bb7? is the losing move. |
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| Jul-22-08 | | Marmot PFL: The knight that black could have exchanged on move 17 comes back to punish him on move 36. Objectively 17...Nb5 was probably best but the game is very difficult and facing a kingside attack I would trade down. Geller plays like Fischer here, all out to win with black, and with similar results vs. Spassky at this time. Near the end I think Geller still had a chance with 35...Rxe4 36.de4 Bxe4+ 37.Kh2 Qe7 followed by Nd4, but he must have been very short of time. |
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| Mar-18-09 | | Paraconti: Spassky HAS to be one of the REAL attacking geniuses! |
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| Mar-18-09 | | Jim Bartle: Nice observation on the pawn structure at move 22, TD. (Five years ago...) |
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Mar-18-09
| | stoy: Around 1969 Korchnoi said that he considered the true "masters of attack" to be Alekhine, Keres & Spassky. |
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| Mar-09-15 | | zydeco: Notes from Cafferty's book on the Candidates Matches: Geller was prepared for the Closed Sicilian and actually achieved the initiative out of the opening. 20.Rbe1 is a somewhat desperate attempt to give back material in exchange for complications. White threatens 21.e5 and the quiet line 20....Nb5 allows white an attack. There's a long inconclusive analysis of 21....f6 22.exf6 exf6 23.fxg6!? fxg5 24.Nxg5. 24....e6 gets a question mark. 24....e5 followed by ....Rbb7 is supposed to be better. Spassky thinks 25....g5 is the decisive error. Both 25....Qe8 and 25....Rbb7 are better. 26....Nb5 may also be an improvement.
Geller thought he was doing fine but should have played 29.....Qg8 and given back the exchange with 30.Qg3 Nb5 31.Nxg4 Rg7! but white could improve with 30.Re3. |
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| Aug-12-16 | | tigreton: I think Spassky, suffering a strong pressure on the queenside, simply decided to turn the tables and being the one who attacks. You know how much more difficult it is the defense, specially when there are a lot of choices, even for Geller. |
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| Jun-17-17 | | edubueno: Antes de esta partida el score era BS 7 vs EG 4, con 13 tablas, es decir 50% de partidas definidas. EG quiso jugar a ganar y fue sobrepasado por una fuerza superior. |
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| May-22-19 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: It is clear that 37 ... Qd8
is refuted by
38 Be8,
not 38 Ne8 |
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| Jun-21-20 | | carpovius: Look at pawns formation after 18...a3 and 22.Rxe1. Beautiful!! |
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| Aug-20-21 | | Misha709600: Spassky himself said the middle game was his forte. |
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| Aug-20-21 | | Misha709600: Everett has it exactly right. His dark-squared bishop should have been back on g7 guarding the dark squares around the king. |
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| Jan-09-23 | | Allderdice83: <zydeco ... Geller thought he was doing fine but should have played 29.....Qg8 and given back the exchange with 30.Qg3 Nb5 31.Nxg4 Rg7! but white could improve with 30.Re3.> After 30 Re3, how about 30 ... Rbb7 31 Rg3 Rg7 32 Bxg7+ Rxg7? If 33 Qe2, then 33 ... h5 and it doesn't look like White can make any progress. So maybe 33 h5 Bd7 34 h6 Rg5 35 Qe2 Be8 36 Rxg4 Bh5 37 Rxg5 Bxe2 38 Rxg8+ Kxg8 39 Bf3 Bxf3+ 40. Nxf3 Nxc2. Don't see how White is winning. |
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| May-29-23 | | Allderdice83: Looking at this again with Stockfish, Black is doing fine until 31 ... Bb7? He has to play 31 ... Rbb7 here to guard g7, which is more important than g8 since White has a bishop already hitting g7. Stockfish evaluates this as dead even (0.00). After 35. Qf2 (35. Qf4 is better to avoid the following), Black needs to find the rook sacrifice 35 ... Rxe4! 36. dxe4 Bxe4+ 37. Kh2 Qxf5 38. Rf1 Nd4 39. Nxf6 Rg2+ 40. Qxg2 Bxg2 41. Rxf5 Nxf5 42. Kxg2 Nxh6 (+1.14). |
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