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Jun-14-02
 | | Sneaky: The connected queenside pawns seemed unstoppable. A great example of a thematic sacrifice. |
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| Jul-16-03 | | Ribeiro: This game was played in the first round of a match Argentina vs. USSR. In an old magazine I read that Bronstein took 50 minutes to play
10.Bxb5! |
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| Feb-05-05 | | suenteus po 147: Games like this make we want to name Bronstein as my hero. I would love to be able to create a game like this against the Najdorf players at my chess club. It's a beautiful thematic sacrifice, as <Sneaky> calls it. <Sneaky> Would you mind elaborating what a thematic sacrifice is? |
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| Feb-06-05 | | Backward Development: instructive game. Sacrificial opportunities abound within this variation, and ones white has to worry about most are Nd5, Nf5, Nxe6, and of course, Bxb5. Bxb5 accents the possible weakness of the queen on c7, and the classical weakness of the d6 square. In this game, Bronstein uses it to trade into a very favorable endgame with three connected passers. A more usual strategy is a ripping open of the king's e6 and d6 cover with mate usually coming down the d-file. This is very common in Polugaevsky variation miniatures in which black miscalculates. |
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| Aug-29-05 | | Titicamara: I wonderd why this game is not listed as one of his best game collection. |
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| Nov-24-05 | | KingG: This is definitely one of the most instructive Sicilian games(not just Najdorf). It is quite common to have the chance to sacrifice a piece for 3 connected passed pawns in the Sicilian, and i think in general it works out well for White. It looks normal now to play this move, but to come up with this idea over the board is absolutely unbelievable. Bronstein is definitely one of the most creative players in history. |
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| Feb-05-06 | | DrDum: What a great game. <wannabe> as my witness I did come up with this game OTB on my own! It's more an example of my recklessness than any chess genius however. |
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| Feb-05-06 | | DrDum: ok, not the game but the sacfor two or three pawns. and an unsound sac at that. |
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Feb-05-06
 | | WannaBe: <DrDum> Yeah, but you play the crazy sac/exchange too early though... |
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| Feb-05-06 | | DrDum: well I am <DrDum> and not <David Bronstein> :=D |
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| Nov-21-06 | | Stevens: <Ribeiro: This game was played in the first round of a match Argentina vs. USSR. In an old magazine I read that Bronstein took 50 minutes to play 10.Bxb5!> in Kasparovs lecture on the Najdorf, he says it's 9.Qg3 which was the long think, about 58 minutes apparently! Of course, these were the days of the longer time control, which i guess is made awkward now because no breaks in the game are really possible. |
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| Jan-31-07 | | IMDONE4: <Stevens> well, its not just time controls anymore, its the fact that most of the theoretical points have been already discovered, so it has become increasingly hard to find a novelty |
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| Mar-01-07 | | Hawks: The king can't move to e8 because? |
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Mar-01-07
| | WannaBe: <Hawks> The king's starting position is on e8! Okay, seriously, what move number are you talking about?! |
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| Mar-01-07 | | ianD: Wonderful game |
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| Jul-13-07 | | Bob726: 16 0-0-0! was much better than 0-0 |
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| Jan-25-08 | | Cibator: Bronstein's own copious annotations to this game (too lengthy to reproduce here) can be found on pp 104-107 of "The Delights of Chess" by Assiac (Dover, 1974). Of particular interest are his comments on the 10th move and its ramifications, where he notes that the idea isn't new - it was first tried, in a position where the moves f4 and ...Be7 had been added, in 1934. (DB also candidly admits that he couldn't remember all the old analyses!) |
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| May-09-08 | | KingG: Yes, it turns out this sacrifice had been played many times before. The first famous game in this line, and the one Bronstein was probably referring too, was Rauzer vs V Makogonov, 1934. I believe Bronstein's big contribution in this game was the move 15.Bd2!. If White had taken on f6, and in some other games, then Black would retake with his g-pawn in order to use the g-file to attack White's King side. In general though, White does welcome exchanges, as they make it easier to exploit his three conected passed pawns on the Queen side. These days Black no longer plays 7...Nbd7, instead preferring 7...h6!, as in for example Short vs Kasparov, 2000. |
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| Jan-07-11 | | meppi: very instructive game regarding the dynamic value of pieces vs pawns. Just a minor point but i think that bronstein could have improved with
27. Rxc5 - Rxc5
28. fxe4
True he is down a whole rook now rather than a whole piece. But 5 connected pawns, 4 of them with no opposing pawns to challenge them. Bronsteins queenside pawns and king should be able to tie down both black rooks by themselves. |
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May-06-11
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Bronstein ... really took my breath away ... I was literally gasping and "ooohing and ahhhing" when i was going over this game. Game # 24, (page # 54) of the book, "The Golden Dozen," by Irving Chernev. |
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May-06-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: Exciting endgame! |
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| Aug-31-11 | | Novirasputin: To my mind Bronstein had another game (if not more) similar to this in the Kiesiertsky variation of the two knights where he sacked the bishop for an unstoppable pawn chain of death. There it was for central control as opposed to the endgame but the idea seems somewhat similar. It was against E. Rojahn |
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| Aug-31-11 | | MaxxLange: <Novirasputin> You are thinking of the game
Bronstein vs E Rojahn, 1956 ? Good catch - this is a bit like the Rojan game. thematically |
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| Oct-04-12 | | Tullius: Bronstein says that 16...0-0 was Najdorf's only, but decisive, mistake; that he should have castled queen-side, whereupon g7-g5-g4 would have given him strong counter-play.(in Assiac: The Delights of Chess, p.106) |
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| Oct-04-12 | | cionics: I'm amazed by 10. Bxb5. Sad to say, I would never have come up with that! |
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