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Jaroslav Jezek vs Isaac Boleslavsky
EUR-chT (Men) 1st (1957), Vienna AUT, rd 4, Aug-25
King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack. Fluid Attack (E78)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Feb-25-13
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  Check It Out: The final position looks like a very dynamic position for a draw agreement. I wonder what happened.
Feb-25-13
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  Phony Benoni: In team tournaments, match considerations often take precedence over what is happening on the board. If it is better for the team to take a draw in a particular game, it's practically your duty to do so. Sometimes "package deals" are arranged, determining the results on several boards.

That being said, I don't know what the reasoning was here. Boleslavsky's team was winning the match (USSR vs. Czechoslovakia) fairly comfortably despite losses by Smyslov and Tal, so it wasn't necessary to press for the win. He may have been looking for a bit of a rest.

Here are the other games of the match, if that means anything:

1 Filip vs Smyslov, 1957 1-0, 43

2 Keres vs Pachman, 1957 1-0, 33

3 F Zita vs Bronstein, 1957 0-1, 37

4 Tal vs J Kozma, 1957 0-1, 32

5 J Sefc vs Petrosian, 1957 0-1, 96

6 Taimanov vs J Fichtl, 1957 1/2, 76

7 F Pithart vs Korchnoi, 1957 0-1, 44

8 Tolush vs J Rejfir, 1957 1/2, 30

9 J Jezek vs Boleslavsky, 1957 1/2, 23

10 Averbakh vs Ujtelky, 1957 1-0, 46

The position seems balanced, though I rather like Black's position a bit better. His pieces seem a little better co-ordinated.

Feb-26-13
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  Check It Out: <Phony Benoni> You are a treasure. Thank you.
Feb-26-13  Abdel Irada: <Phony Benoni>: It's uncanny how you do that. Are you sure you're not Joseph Curwen?
Feb-26-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Phony Benoni: <Abdel Irada> Hardly. At least my bones tell me I'm not.

But like any good librarian, I know how to use my sources. In this case, remembering that Olimpbase also covers the European Team Championships:

http://www.olimpbase.org/1957e/1957...

Feb-26-13  Abdel Irada: Ah, but what do your "essentiall saltes" tell you?
Feb-26-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Phony Benoni: That my sodium intake is too high.

Sorry. But P.G. Wodehouse fans are rarely H.P. Lovecraft fans as well.

Feb-26-13  Benzol: It would be hard to imagine Jeeves as a follower of Cthulhu.

:)

Feb-26-13  Abdel Irada: Ah, but with strange aeons and all that....
Feb-27-13  Benzol: The tale for which the World is not yet ready "Bertie Wooster in The Nameless City".

:)

Feb-27-13  Abdel Irada: But with Jeeves' help, he could search the internet for it.

Probably safer than actually going there.

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