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V Malashkhia vs Tigran Petrosian
Georgian Championship (1944), Tbilisi URS
Sicilian Defense: Dragon. Classical Variation Stockholm Attack (B74)  ·  1-0

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Aug-11-22  Cassandro: Malashkhia, clearly the better player, outmaneuvered his opponent with 18.Rxf6!, followed by Nd5, unleashing mating threats combined with the discovered attack on Black's queen. Reckless play by young Tigran, putting his queen in harm's way like that. Perhaps after the game he said to himself: "Never Again!". And from that moment on, in every game he played, he started OVERPROTECTING all his pieces, all the time, because..NEVER AGAIN!
Aug-11-22  stone free or die: Overprotecting won't help the queen, overprotecting the king is the real issue in the final position.
Aug-11-22
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  NM JRousselle: The simple and strong 16... Nd7 neutralizes White's bishop without putting the knight en pris on g4. I don't see how White has enough compensation for the shattered pawn formation and pawn deficit.
Aug-12-22  chess.o.rama: Overprotection is good. Overprotect in center, the pawns, the ranks, not the queen or king. Royalty must flee so overprotecting queen or king is no good. Aron Nimzovich's My System taught Petrosian and so many others.

Master says the black knight went the wrong way on 16...

Also 14...Rac8 is better.

Black paid for pawn grabbing.

Aug-12-22  SChesshevsky: Just inexperience with the young Petrosian. Usually isn't very long for young Dragon players to learn that ...Qa5 means you usually have to do something against Nd5 and the ...e7 weakness.

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