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Mikhail Botvinnik vs Alexander Kotov
URS (1967), USSR
Uncommon King's Pawn Opening (B00)  ·  1-0

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Apr-20-04
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  Honza Cervenka: 11...b5 was not a good idea. Of course, after 11...b6 12.Na3 white has clearly better play.
Aug-28-09
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  keypusher: Does anyone know the circumstances of this game?
Aug-28-09  nescio: <keypusher> I could only find that the game was played in a Spartakiade: http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gi...
Aug-28-09
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  keypusher: <nescio> Thanks! I wondered if it was a casual or training game of some sort.
Dec-15-21
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  FSR: That is one putrid game! Kotov shows us how to <Stink Like a Grandmaster>.
Jan-02-23  RadioBoy: It seems odd to resign an exchange down. Maybe they both had theater tickets?
Jan-02-23
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  perfidious: The struggle, in the face of iron technique as exemplified by the Patriarch, was hopeless.
Jan-02-23
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  tamar: Tank like a Grandmaster
Apr-03-25
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  keypusher: It is a very odd game. Botvinnik plays a harmless opening but then Kotov hands him the advantage with ...0-0-0 and then follows up with ...b5 -- as Honza restrainedly put it twenty years ago, <not a good idea>. And yes, it's objectively lost at the end but you wouldn't expect Black to resign, especially in a team event.

If you told me <this> game was thrown, I wouldn't bat an eye. But the circumstances make that unlikely.

Practice pointer from the engine: 17.Na5 wins the exchange more or less by force, but a lot stronger was 17.Ng5 and if ...Rdf8? then 18.Rf3 followed by the transfer of the rook to the queenside.

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