James Sherwin vs Svetozar Gligoric (1958)

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James Sherwin vs Svetozar Gligoric
Portoroz Interzonal (1958), Portoroz SLO, rd 9, Aug-19
King's Indian Defense: Saemisch. Closed Variation 7…c6 (E88) · 1-0

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Aug-20-09		jerseybob: So how does black go from what seems like a good game to losing without any seeming blunders? My candidate is 17...Nc5. Maybe 17...Nb6 would've been better.

Dec-26-12		jerseybob: I've since acquired Gligorich's book "I Play against Pieces"(a fine book but frustrating in some ways), and he tells the story behind this game, how was trying to beef up black's play and discovered 13..h5!, and he gives the Sherwin game up to about move 17,commenting that black has the better game, but then doesn't say where he went wrong. At least that I can tell.

Apr-04-14		WickedPawn: I don't understand why further mention is not given to this game. This was the only game that Gligoric lost in the Portoroz Interzonal and he finished second, half a point behind Tal. Had he drawn (or won) this game, the history of chess could have been completely different!

Apr-04-14		keypusher: <WickedPawn: I don't understand why further mention is not given to this game. This was the only game that Gligoric lost in the Portoroz Interzonal> No, it wasn't. He also lost to Olafsson. <and he finished second, half a point behind Tal. Had he drawn (or won) this game, the history of chess could have been completely different!> How? Portoroz was a qualifier. Whichever order they finished in they were both going to the Candidates tournament. That's why both Tal and Gligoric played short draws in the next-to-last round to clinch their berths in the Candidates. A more general point is that the tournament wasn't even halfway over when this game was played; it's silly to assume that everything else would have been exactly the same if Gligoric had won here. Of course Tal might have been completely indifferent to whether he finished first, but that just tends to show that a different result for this game would not have changed the history of chess....

Aug-30-16		zydeco: Gligoric probably just underestimated white's initiative with 25.f4!? and 26.e5 and then got outplayed in a wild tactical position. 26....dxe5 27.Qxe5 Qe7 looks like a better defense. After 28....Qxd6 white has a nasty combination with 29.Bxc5 Qxc5 30.Ne4 Qe7 31.d6 Qd8 32.d7 Bxd7 33.Nxg5 Qxg5 34.Rxd7

Aug-30-16		Howard: Keypusher makes a very good point when he states that it's "silly" to assume that the rest of the tournament would have been the same if Gligoric had won this game. In other words, game results usually have a ripple effect on subsequent ones.

Jun-08-23		Tjm50: I just listened to Ben Johnson's interview with James Sherwin on the "Perpetual Chess" podcast. Sherwin said that this the most memorable game of his career. Highly recommend this episode, and the whole podcast.

Dec-18-23		FSR: Sherwin played the Saemisch in this game, but the Differentisch against Tal in the last round. J Sherwin vs Tal, 1958.

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