<This book contains 1400 combinations, grouped by such topics as Weak King, Decoying, Pawn Promotion, Pinning, Deflection, and so forth. The basic concept urging the author to write this book was: to develop your tactical skills there is nothing like solving chess combinations. Each section contains studies of elementary and advanced level. They are highly instructive, and by studying them you can make real progress in acquiring the tactical motives of chess.

The author, József Pintér, is one of the most recognized grandmasters in Hungary. Silver medallist at the Chess Olympiad, several times champion of Hungary, captain of the national team, he is one of the main trainers at the Central School of Chess. He wrote a number of books. As a chess player, he is noted for his “healthy” playing style. Hungarian chessplayers say that if you want to become a strong player, you must attend Pintér’s classes. You can now listen to him, at least for the duration of 1400 studies.>

The winner of the game below currently has no individual games in the CG database but does appear in several consultation games with the spelling <Goring>.

Goering,Carl Theodor - Anderssen,Adolf [B46]

Leipzig Leipzig (7), 19.07.1877

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 a6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bd3 d5 8.exd5 exd5 9.0–0 Bd6 10.Bf5 0–0 11.Bg5 Be5 12.Nce2 Bxh2+ 13.Kh1 Bc7 14.Qd3 Ne5 15.Qh3 Ng6 16.Bxc8 Rxc8 17.Nf5 Bb8 18.Ned4 Bf4 19.Bxf4 Nxf4 20.Qg3 Ng6 21.f4 Ne4 22.Qg4 Qf6 23.Rad1 Rfe8 24.Rd3 a5 25.Kh2 Qa6 26.Rff3 Nf6 27.Qh3 h5 28.Rg3 Ng4+ 29.Rxg4 hxg4 30.Qxg4 Rxc2 31.Rh3 Rf2 32.Kg3 Qf1 33.Rh2 Rxf4 34.Ne7+ Rxe7 35.Qc8+ Nf8 36.Qxf8+ Kxf8 37.Rh8# 1–0

I came across this game in <The Great Book of Chess Combinations>, by Pintér, József, Caissa Chess Books (c)2012, at p. 10.

Pintér uses the position after <35. Qc8+>:

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Won or shared first Plovdiv 1979 (outright), <three times winner of the Rome Invitation series>: Rome 1979 (outright), Rome 1982 (together with Viktor Korchnoi) and Rome 1983 (outright), Balatonbereny 1983, Prague zonal 1985 (together with Mihai Suba and Vlastimil Jansa, surpassing amongst others Lubomir Ftacnik, Florin Gheorghiu, Andras Adorjan, Ivan Farago, or Istvan Csom), <Copenhagen (Jubilee) 1985> (best performance of Pinter according to chessmetrics, clear first, full 1.5 point ahead of 2.-4. Bent Larsen, Helgi Olafsson, Curt Hansen, followed by Vasily Smyslov, Nick DeFirmian, Johan Hjartarson, James Plaskett, Carsten Hoi, Lars Karlsson, etc.), a strong international invitational held to celebrate the 50 years jubilee of the chess club Brønshøj, the district is part of the municipality of Copenhagen, <Szirak 1985> (together with Vladimir Tukmakov, ahead of Gyula Sax, Andras Adorjan, Kiril Georgiev, Anatoly Vaisser, Andronico Yap, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Rainer Knaak, Josef Klinger, a.o.), Warsaw zonal 1987, <Léon GM 1989> (together with Zsuzsa Polgar, who had the better tie-break, the official website shows him as first in a retrospective survey), Budapest (Perenyi Memorial) 1989 (together with Jozsef Horvath), Beersheba 1991 (ahead of Sergey Dolmatov in a closed double round robin), Balaton GM-A in 2005. =2nd at Dortmund 1988 (joint with Daniel King, Smbat Lputian won).

Pinter qualified three times in a row for an Interzonal tournament: 1982 in Las Palmas, 1985 in Taxco, and 1987 in Zagreb. He finished always on a solid midfield place.

<National Champion in 1978 and in 1979>. European Club Cup Champion.

A participant in eight Olympiads from 1980 until 1998 where Pinter collected one <individual gold medal in 1984> for the best performance at board five and a <team silver medallist in 1980>.

<Gold medal on board four and silver with Hungary> at the inaugural edition of the World Team Chess Championship in Lucerne 1985 (six boards, eight players per nation). Hungary au grand complet, just before the fabulous rise of the Polgar sisters: Portisch, Ribli, Sax, Pinter, Adorjan, Farago, Csom, and (then IM) Groszpeter.

Author of 1000 Minor Piece Endings, 1000 Queen Endings, 1000 Rook Endings, 1000 Combinations (selection).

Pinter is well known for a 1984 brilliancy against his compatriot Lajos Portisch in that year's Hungarian Championship:

Portisch vs Pinter, 1984.

More about his immortal game: http://en.chessbase.com/post/pinter....

and:

Kasparov close to loose, French Team-ch 1993: Kasparov (Auxerre) vs. Pinter (Montpellier) ½- ½, Pinter vs Kasparov, 1993, a battle of 114 moves!

Pinter vs Kasparov, 1993 original posting by <percyblakeney>: Garry Kasparov never lost (with classical time controls) against a Hungarian opponent! He played lots of games versus for example Leko, Portisch, Judit Polgar, Almasi, Ribli, Sax, Adorjan, Csom, and several others without losing, but here it wasn't that far away against the somehow less known Jozsef Pinter. The endgame reminds of Radjabov vs Van Wely, 2008.

Happy birthday, Grandmaster Pinter