According to the CG database, 6.....Be6 is Geller's idea. 7.Ne4 seems like a really bad decision -- moving a piece for the second time in the opening, reducing pressure on d5, and blocking a path for both the e-pawn and the g2-bishop. 7.e3, 7.e4, and 7.Nf3 all seem more logical.

11.Nc3 seems to make more sense than 11.Nh4 -- white ends up with his pieces very disharmonized at about move 15.

17....Qb5 seems like a very strong, subtle move, sliding the queen onto the light squares to begin controlling d3 and stepping out of a pin after 18.e4 N moves 19.Be3. 17.....Nb3 looks tempting, but white can get all sorts of complications after 18.Bxb3 (if 18.e4 Nd4) Qxb3 19.e4 Qc2 20.exd5 Qxb1 21.Bh6

I like 19.Be3 better than 19.Bh6 -- d4 becomes a problem for white.

21.Bb3 seems like a bizarre decision -- why weaken d3? 21.a4 and 21.Be3 make more sense.

Geller is impressively centralized after 26.....NBC.

White loses a pawn no matter what after 30.....Rb8. The bishop can't move, so black plays 31.....a5 if the rook stays on b1. After 31.Ra1 Rxb4 32.Rxa7 Rb1 (or Rc1) black threatens both 33.....Rcc1 and 33.....Nxf3+

From his horrible-looking position on move 45, Korchnoi whips up a counterattack that almost succeeds with 46.f5.

"There, as we all now know, everything was arranged by Petrosian. He agreed with his friend Geller to play draws in all their games together. They also persuaded Keres to join their coalition. In a two-month long tournament, held in tropical conditions, it was important to shorten the distance by eight rounds: this gave them a great advantage over the remaining competitors. But, even so, it seems to me that Keres made a mistake. At that momcµt he was playing more strongly than anyone, and it was not to his advantage to take draws with his main rivals. A more crafty person, on learning about the pact between Geller and Petrosian, would have sought a separate alliance.

At first I didn't grasp what was happening in the tournament. I recall how, on seeing a ten-move draw between Geller and Petrosian in the second cycle, <I asked Geller whom he was intending to beat. <'You!'> was his direct reply. I merely shrugged my shoulders.> At that point I was playing better than Geller, was superior to him generally, and had no intention of losing to him.