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Grigory Levenfish vs Akiba Rubinstein
Vilnius All-Russian Masters (1912), Vilna (Vilnius) RUE, rd 1, Aug-19
Scotch Game: Classical Variation (C45)  ·  0-1

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Kibitzer's Corner
Mar-26-12
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  offramp: A thing I have noticed about Akiva Rubinstein is that he doesn't really care about his pawn formation as long as he gets good piece play. After 12...hxg5 his pawns are a bit messed up:


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but he plays actively and soon his pawns look like this:


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Very different! But that position is surely a draw! And when the bishops come off it looks even more drawish: After 29...Kxe6


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But white's king ends up slightly too far away:


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and he is shocked to find that he cannot play 38.Ke3, as


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...Rbe8+ 39.Kd3 Rd8+ 40.Kc2 Rxd2+ 41.Kxd2 Rf2+ 42.Ke3 Rxb2 would win easily.

Rubinstein finishes the game off in sledgehammer fashion.

Good One!!

Jun-05-23
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  Fusilli: <offramp: A thing I have noticed about Akiva Rubinstein is that he doesn't really care about his pawn formation as long as he gets good piece play. After 12...hxg5 his pawns are a bit messed up.>

True. Then there is the subtlety that he has just enough tempos to relocate the knight to e5. In this position:


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... white just played 14.Rd1, to play (I surmise) the annoying 15.Na4. Rubinstein replies 14...a5! so that he can respond to 15.Na4 with Ba7. And then against 15.h3, as played by Levenfish, he has a tempo to spare to secure the knight's retreat to e5 because the white rooks are not connected. After the retreat, the recapture fxe5 is fine since the doubled pawns on the g-file cannot even remotely be exploited by white.

I think this game is a positional masterpiece. I am in awe at how Rubinstein maneuvered on the queenside when the rooks were stuck in trench warfare on the h-file, trading the LSB at just the right time and ending up with a strong pawn center.

Jul-30-24
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  gezafan: Rubinstein played well here but Levenfish played weakly. He seemed to be cooperating with Rubinstein.

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