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Milan Vidmar vs Savielly Tartakower
London (1922), London ENG, rd 3, Aug-03
Dutch Defense: Classical Variation (A84)  ·  1-0

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White to move.
ANALYSIS [x]
Notes from THE FIELDThe Dutch defence.White has already a more preferable development.The advance of this pawn weakens the defensive position of Black’s king.A very strong move by which White forces the opening of the long diagonal for his queen bishop, thus demonstrating the weakness of his opponent’s 8th move.It would have been too dangerous to capture the g-pawn, e.g., 17...fxg4 18 hxg4 Nxg4 (if 18...Bxg4 then 19 Bxf6 winning a piece) 19 Qxe4 with an overwhelming superiority of position.Threatening 25 Qd4. black’s game is already hopeless.A pretty finish. If 36...Rxd7 then of course 37 Rh8 mate. A very finely played game by Vidmar.1-0

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Dec-20-05  suenteus po 147: Poor Savielly.... 8...g6 was indeed bad. However! up until that point he plays the Dutch like Bird's Opening for black. Between his wit and his playing style he is just my kind of player, through and through.
Apr-19-06
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  Honza Cervenka: Excellent game of Milan Vidmar.
Nov-05-11  Ulhumbrus: The strategy of castling on the Queen side against the Dutch defence remains effective to this day. A more recent example from the year 1977 is the game Korchnoi vs Spassky, 1977

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