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Yuri Kots vs Boris Spassky
USSR Championship 1961b (1961), Baku URS, rd 1, Nov-17
Spanish Game: Closed. Averbakh Variation (C87)  ·  0-1

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Apr-06-15  A.T PhoneHome: 17...Nxg4 is a nice sacrifice! Spassky saw that he would need to clear the g-file in order to create a decisive attack along g- and h-file. Once Spassky got his Rooks to those files, the end was near.

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Jun-20-15
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  Fusilli: Brilliant attack that starts with the very enterprising 10...g5.
Dec-30-21  jerseybob: <Fusilli: Brilliant attack that starts with the very enterprising 10...g5.> Considering the strengths of the two players, Spassky would have undoubtedly won, but the hara kiri move 11.g4?(instead of 11.Nf1) made it a certainty. In the similar game Fischer-DiCamillo 1956, white also played the weakening h3, and Spassky here plays the type of attack recommended for black in that game. Could Bobby have withstood that attack? We'll never know, but I don't think he would've tried g4, unless it was part of a coordinated plan of counterplay, something he excelled at.
Dec-30-21
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  perfidious: For a strong master, White's eighth move is a surprising error; since the days of Steinitz, it has been known that h3 should be avoided until Black has foregone the option of long castling.
Dec-30-21  jerseybob: It's a mistake you can unthinkingly make. And speaking of unthinking, on the Fischer-DiCamillo game page, guess what move the engine recommends? Right, 8.h3!

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