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Leonid Stein vs Efim Geller
USSR Championship (1963), Leningrad URS, rd 4, Nov-28
Slav Defense: Quiet Variation (D11)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Aug-21-13  ughaibu: If Irving Chernev were writing about this game, after black's 18th he might say something like 'Black has a queenside majority supported by the long-ranging fianchettoed bishop on Kn2, add to that the fact that white has a bad bishop and in the hands of a great master these apparently insignificant features are enough for the game to (apparently) effortlessly win itself'.

Play might continue 19.e4 Ne8, 20.Qe2 Nc7, 21.Bd2 Ne6, 22.Be3 b6, but then how would the great master effortlessly proceed?

Aug-21-13
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  perfidious: In those days, of course, Reinfeld wrote, inter alia, of how it was bad for Black to allow the Maroczy Bind.

Chernev had a way of writing which conveyed a certain ease, elegance and inexorability in the play of great masters, though such play actually required, as a preliminary, rather more than the stock phrase of the time: 'The rest is a matter of technique'.

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