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| Jul-22-07 | | patzerboy: What a game!
Watch what Petrosian does:
--First he moves his Queen Bishop three times in the first ten moves, and then on move 13 turns it into a "tall pawn" for the next eight moves, THEN he "undevelops" it to c1 on move 23 for four moves! --On move 41 he begins moving his King to the center (d4 by move 44). Contrast the positions of the two Kings at this point. At move 54 the White King makes it to e5. Note that both sides still have SEVEN pawns each, all rooks are on the board, and each has a bishop. Two moves later, the White King penetrates to d6 after an exchange of a pair of pawns. Two moves after that the game is over. (White will be able to win the bishop while preventing Black's h-pawn from queening. Black's Queenside pawns will fall at the least.) Each side STILL has six pawns. Black's King has done NOTHING. I can't claim to follow all of the subtleties in this game, but the overriding impression is of a gradual squeeze until Black is almost literally suffocated to death. This must have been an absolutely agonizing game to play for Mecking. No counterplay at any time. |
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| Apr-09-09 | | xombie: The whole game seems like neither player is doing anything. Must have been among the easiest wins for TVP, leaving a complete wreck of an opponent half metamorphosed into a state of raving lunacy. |
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| Dec-15-10 | | goldenbear: I won't allow something like this to happen to me. I try to resign well before my opponent's king starts winning pieces. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | Golfergopher: Despite the eco code, the pawn structure is very french. Very instructive game on how to play against the light squared bishop. I really liked how petrosian denied the b4 square to the bishop. |
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Jan-23-12
 | | Phony Benoni: I think it's an ironic pun today. <Petrobras> is a Brazilian energy company, which contrasts with the amount of energy shown by the Brazilian Mecking in this game. And, of course, there's the connection to PETROsian. As for the game, one item of interest is how Petrosian strives to retain the blockading pawn on e5. This begins with 15.Qg4 encouraging Black to play ...g6. Now if he tries to eliminate the blockader with ...f6, his g-pawn can no longer recapture. That means Black's e-pawn will be backwards, so Petrosian quickly seizes control on the e-file. With his center frozen in place, Black is unable to find anything for his pieces to do, particularly that couch potato of a LSB. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | waustad: Yet again it reminds me of the comment by a contemporary of Petrosian's who said that it was terrifying to watch Tigran wait. |
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Jan-23-12
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Has anyone here seen the James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough? Remember that garroting torture device the bad guys used on Bond? Somehow, that image came to mind as I played over this game. That's the great strength of the Torre; if Black plays logical, "natural" moves, he or she will end up having no conception of how the game went wrong. 4...h6, 4...Be7 and 4...Qb6 are all superior to 4...d5, a seemingly logical and natural move, but one which prematurely commits Black to a rigid pawn structure. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | Oceanlake: Move 7: Black’s QB is shut in; White’s is mobile.
Move 16: One wonders why Mecking didn’t choose b7, Ba6.
Move 17: The overprotected pawn on e5; the position begins to look like an Advance variation of the French.
Move 31: Black has pawns on white; white on black. The French Bishop is established.
Move 35: White has d4 and e5, and Black: Nothing. The game belongs in My System.Conclusion: Petrosian had a plan; Mecking didn't. |
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Jan-23-12
| | Phony Benoni: Instead of a French, this pawn structure reminds me of the quiet line in the Exchange Caro-Kann: <1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5. 4.Bd3 Nf6 5.c3>
click for larger viewNow the pawn structure after 5...e6 would resemble today's game. However, that move is rarely played if not an outright mistake. Black plays the Caro-Kann to have a pawn supporting the center without blocking his QB, and would ususally avoid ...e6 for that reason. Note how Petrosian, after Black plays ...cxd4, recaptures with the e-pawn. This would normally be done to free the QB, but here he's aiming for that Caro-Kann structure which is probably inferior for Black. |
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Jan-23-12
 | | FSR: So "Petrobras" aren't bras made out of oil? |
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| Jan-23-12 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: I thought they were bras made out of rocks. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | whiteshark: And I thought Petro was male... |
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| Jan-23-12 | | newzild: As usual, a delight to observe Petrosian's mastery of a closed position. <In what appears to be perfectly equal positions, Petrosian consistently finds seemingly innocuous moves that gradually overwhelm his opponent. He accomplishes his objective simply by exchanging pieces and manoeuvring for victory without taking unnecessary risks. This essentially defensive technique has the virtue, when it doesn't utterly succeed, of producing a draw.> - Larry Evans, introduction to game 3 from My 60 Memorable Games, by Robert James Fischer. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | newzild: As pointed out by <Phony Benoni>, 15. Qg4 is a very instructive move. After 16...g6, Black can no longer challenge White's centre with ...f6 because it would fatally weaken the g6 pawn. |
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Jan-23-12
| | FSR: <whiteshark: And I thought Petro was male...> And your point is? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfON... |
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| Jan-23-12 | | chegado: As a Brazilian I was hoping that Mecking would have won. He was one of the greatest players here and even shortly before his mental breakdown, almost anyone could beat him. And yes, Petrobras is the 8ª biggest company in the world. I think that if this game has any important thing to say is this: You can't win, especially against a World Champion, moving your Knight TEN TIMES IN A ROW and not going anywhere. Anyone can guess what was Mecking's plan with that? |
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Jan-23-12
| | Phony Benoni: <chegado: I think that if this game has any important thing to say is this: You can't win, especially against a World Champion, moving your Knight TEN TIMES IN A ROW and not going anywhere.> However, it appears you can do it by moving a knight only eight times in a row: Petrosian vs Bronstein, 1956
Seriously, my guess would be that Mecking simply couldn't think of anything else to do. He could move his rook or bishop, but that wouldn't help his position. So he just got into what seemed like his strongest defensive position and waited. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | izimbra: It's interesting to check out a closed game like this to see where a modern engine sees a big positional advantage and where it doesn't. Petrosian is able to implement a strong positional plan in the middle game after <28.Bg5> seeing that an exchange on f6 is going to force black to choose between bad king safety and bad position for his rook. After <28.Bg5 Qd8 29.Qf4 Rc8
30.Re3 Bxg5 31.hxg5 Ra8 32.Qf6+ Qxf6 33.exf6+ Kh7> the plan has been put in place: 
click for larger view Yet Houdini doesn't see any huge advantage for white here (only +0.24). It's not until after <45...Nd8> that the engine sees how to implement the positional crush. 
click for larger view Instead of Petrosian's move, it plays
<46.bxa5 bxa5> (+1.98 22/72)
click for larger view <47.Rb1 Rc8 48.Ba6 Ra8 49.Bb5 Bxb5 50.axb5 Nb7 51.g4 h4> (+3.27 22/66)
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<52.Nc6 Nd8 53.f5 exf5 54.gxf5 gxf5 55. Nxd8 Rxd8 56.b4 h3 57.b7 Rh4+ 58.Ke5 Rb8 59.Kd6 Kh7 60.Kc7> 1-0
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| Jan-23-12 | | shakespeare: All these little moves by TP shuffling pieces around and improving a tiny little bit - if someone would play today against me like this, I would suspect a little electronic helper. But waiting for a draw against TG in a position like this is definitely not enough - but on the other hand - if HM would have seen a chance for active counterplay, he would have taken it for sure.
As far as I can see: 4.... Qb6 was maybe Meckings only good chance to equalize and get into the game - after this point the grip of the Iron Tiger was incredibly strong and precice |
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| Jan-23-12 | | Garech: A beautiful game from Petrosian!
-Garech |
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Jan-23-12
 | | keypusher: The opening reminds me of Fischer vs Petrosian, 1970. |
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Jan-23-12
 | | Penguincw: Mecking was trying to castle artificially. |
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Jan-23-12
 | | sleepyirv: Thanks <Phony Benoni> the first thing that came to my mind was the character Fortinbras from Hamlet, which to say the least, doesn't make a lick of sense. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | kevin86: White wins by domination of space. |
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Jan-23-12
 | | playground player: <Petrobras>=Brazilian energy company? My momma told me, if you have to explain the joke, it isn't funny. |
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