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Igor Bondarevsky vs Isaac Boleslavsky
USSR Absolute Championship (1941), Leningrad-Moscow URS, rd 7, Apr-01
French Defense: Winawer. Positional Variation (C19)  ·  1-0

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Mar-26-08  vonKrolock: An extraordinary fighting game, of epic dimensions, strongly characterized by the rupture <22...e6-e5>!!, a motif with few recorded similar predecessors (like, for instance one by Schlechter vs Showalter in Vienna 1898)

<35...c4-c3> "35...♕e1 forcing a draw"

<38...♕e3+> "38...c2 39.♕xc2 ♕g4+ with a draw"

(both possibilities pointed out by the loser himself)

Jun-09-13  Old King Cole: Pawn muscle is seen in this game where Bondarevsky beats Boleslavsky.
Dec-01-14  Captain Hindsight: Better would have been <47...bxa4> and black would hold out, e.g. <48.Qxa6 Ke7=>
Feb-05-16  whiteshark: What's wrong with <32...Qd2+> which threatens ...Rxf4 or if 33.Kg3 Qc3+ 34. K~ Qxa1
Jul-11-22  ILikeKeres: <whiteshark> My guess is 32...Qd2+ 33. Ne2 Rf2+ 34. Kg3 Qxe2 35. Qc8+ and white infiltrates on the back rank.
Jul-11-22  ILikeKeres: <whiteshark> Whoops! Correct move for white would be 33.Ng2

Complicated endgame for sure!

May-19-25  Stolzenberg: What's wrong with 17. Bxe6+?

After 17. ... Bxe6 18. Qxe6+ Kh8 19. Ne1 White is a pawn up, c2 is protected an the f-pawn can proceed.

May-19-25  Stolzenberg: After <60. ... Kc7?? 61. Qa5+> every move will loose either the pawn b5 or the pawn c3 with check and 61. ... Qb6 62. Qxb6+ Kxb6 63. Nxc3 is hopeless.

Instead 60. ... Kd8 would lead to the same position as after <55. ... Kd8>.

May-19-25  sudoplatov: Nimzovich did get in 71...e6-e5 here: Alekhine vs A Nimzowitsch, 1914
May-19-25  ewan14: Certainly looked as though black could have got a draw by repetition of moves in a couple of places

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