| May-07-05 | | paladin at large: 14. Bg5 is a big move for white. In retrospect, black's 13....Qf5 looks bad, but black is already in a bind, because of the potential of white's knight on a5 to take up a very powerful position on c6 or e5. |
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| Jul-21-05 | | Resignation Trap: Botvinnik: "French with 3. Nd2 Nc6. 'Br' won by energetic and accurate play." |
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| Sep-10-05 | | Resignation Trap: I wonder if Szabo was familiar with this game (not in www.chessgames.com nor in http://www.chesslive.de ): Bronstein - Barsauskas, Lithuanian Championship 1947 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nc6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.e5 Nd7 6.Nb3 f6 7.Bb5 a6 8.Bxc6 bxc6 9.0-0 c5 10.c4! c6 11.exf6 gxf6 12.Qe2 Kf7 13.Re1 Nb6 14.Nxc5 Bxc5 15.dxc5 Nxc4 16.b3 Na5 17.Ne5+! Ke7 18.Bd2! Kf8 19.Qh5 fxe5 20. Bh6+! 1-0 Szabo deviated with 10...dxc4. |
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| Sep-10-05 | | suenteus po 147: <Resignation Trap> Not sure the information would have helped much, except maybe as evidence to avoid the French altogether. Bronstein was always lethal against it when he employed the Tarrasch. |
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| Dec-20-06 | | Silverstrike: <Resignation Trap> Where did you find out about that game? |
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Dec-21-06
 | | Gypsy: <Resignation Trap> Please, submit the Bronstein - Barsauskas game for an inclusion. Thx! In this game, Black had to part with a piece because of 18...Rxd1 19.Ne5+ Kg8 20.Rxd1 Bxc5 21.Rd8+ Bf8 22.Be7... |
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| Dec-23-06 | | Resignation Trap: The Bronstein-Barsauskas game was just uploaded by me. It appears in <The Art of Chess Improvisation> by Boris Weinstein (Vainshtein), published in Russian in 1976 and translated to English as "David Bronstein - Chess Improviser" in 1983. According to Kevin Spraggett , this was "one of the greatest books of all time." The crosstable from the 1947 Lithuanian Championship can be found here:
http://www1.omnitel.net/margiris/is... . In a game played in the 15th USSR Championship, Aronin vs Bondarevsky, 1947 , White tried the weaker 10.exf6 Qxf6 11.Re1 c4 and Black went on to win! |
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| Aug-23-11 | | ozmikey: The decisive battle of the first-ever Interzonal!
Although 16...Bb7 was probably a blunder, overlooking the line that <Gypsy> gives, Black's position is already incredibly difficult. The threat is actually 17. Nc6! followed by 18. Nfe5+, and it's hard to see how Black can parry it, given the bind he's in. Maybe 16...Kg8 gave some grovelling chances, but it's hard to see a player of Bronstein's class not being able to press home his advantage from there. |
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Mar-08-16
 | | GrahamClayton: That is one of the worst beatings given to the French Defence that I have seen in a long, long time. |
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| Mar-09-16 | | JimNorCal: Why does black resign?
After Rb8 isn't the advanced pawn won? And by breaking the pin PxN is a threat. Granted, white has an extra knight but that's been true for a while. Black needs to exchange as many pawns as possible, a rook too, and hope to achieve a drawn ending. |
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Mar-09-16
 | | perfidious: <JimNorCal....After Rb8 isn't the advanced pawn won? And by breaking the pin PxN is a threat. Granted, white has an extra knight but that's been true for a while....> After 38....Rb8 39.Nc6 R8xb7 40.Rxb7 Rxb7 41.Nxa5, there may be some slight technical difficulties ahead, but this is winning for White. |
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Jun-21-19
 | | plang: 7..a6!? is perhaps a bit slow; 7..Be7 is an alternative. Tartakover recommended 14..Nd5 15 Qa4+..Bd7 16 c6..Bc8 17 Qxc4 though White would still have been clearly better. Before deciding on 16 Rad1! Bronstein spent a lot of time looking at 16 Nc6..Bd7 17 Nfe5+..Kg8 18 Ne7+..QDxe7 19 Bxe7..Rxd8 20 Bxd8..Bd6 but concluded that Black's position would have been playable. |
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| Mar-31-22 | | cehertan: Even 6…f6 is frowned upon by the engine. Yet another game in this tourney where a GM plays on for 20 moves after losing a piece for next to nothing. |
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| Mar-31-22 | | cehertan: 6�f6 |
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