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Abram Polyak vs Mikhail Botvinnik
Match-tournament (VUZ) (1929), Moscow URS, Jan-??
Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern. Knight Defense (D51)  ·  0-1

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Jan-04-08  blacksburg: ouch. 23...Qf2 probably broke Poliak's heart. before that, he's down a pawn, but he thinks he has an nice attack going, and then it backfires on him. i would have been heartbroken, anyway.
Apr-28-13  wlg: <21 Nxh7, Qd5>
"Evidently White had not foreseen the Black Queen's interesting manoeuvre. He was reckoning only on 21 ...,Qxd4+."
Jun-14-19
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  cwcarlson: 19.♘g5 h6 20.♘h7 ♕e3 ⩱ Botvinnik; 20.♗a2! hg 21.fg ± Houdini.
Nov-13-20
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  jessicafischerqueen:

This game was played in the VUZ (Institute of Higher Education) team tournament held in <Moscow 1929> (4 - 6 January ).

http://al20102007.narod.ru/match_tm...

<Botvinnik> played 1st board for the Leningrad team, who won the event over Moscow, Karkhov and Tashkent.

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