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Martin Stark vs Harry Yanofsky
Ventnor City (1945), Ventnor City, NJ USA, rd 1, Jun-30
Gruenfeld Defense: Russian. Accelerated Variation (D81)  ·  1-0

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Jun-26-21
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  Phony Benoni: After <32...Rd7>:


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With an extra queenside pawn, White feels confident that the K+P ending will be a win and decides to trade all the pieces on d5.

Normally,, you'll just see the "even-even" move order 33.Bxd5+ Rxd5 34.Rxd5 Kxd5. But Whtie has an opportunity to include a bit of pizazz in his technique by playing 33.Rxd5! Rxd5 34.Kf1! Black will eventually have to move his king to unpin the rook, and White then recaptures and wil have won a tempo. It's not necessary here, but there are positions where the extra tempo might make all the difference.

So Stark goes in for the tempo-gaining maneuver with 33.Rxd5 Rxd5 -- then immediately plays 34.Bxd5+, giving up the opportunity.

Why? I don't know. Perhaps he was afflicted with "Teminal Fanicness", the desde to be brilliant even when it's not necessary.

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