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Florin Gheorghiu vs Tony Miles
Teesside (1975), Middlesbrough ENG, rd 5, Sep-06
Benko Gambit: Accepted. Fully Accepted Variation (A58)  ·  0-1

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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-16-03
Premium Chessgames Member
  Chessical: Gheorghiu is a very talented player with an active positional style. From the white side of a Benko Gambit he carefully outmanoeuvers Miles only to blunder in several moves around the time control when two pawns up with a better position.

39.a3? A time pressure mistake. After a model game against the Benko, Gheorghiu slips at the last hurdle. Simply 39.Rde1 and he should win; 39...Bc8 40.Re8

41.Qg2? He had to play 41.Ng1 Qxb3 42.Rd2 (42.Qxb3?? Nf2 mate!) 42...Nf2+ 43.Rxf2 Qxd5+ 44.Rf3 Qxe6 45.f5=

43.Kf2? The final collapse (43.Kh3) permitting mate by 43...Rg2+ 44.Kxe3 Re2 mate

Dec-16-03  AdrianP: Gheorghiu vs Fischer, 1966

Another good win by Gheorghiu

Sep-20-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Miles was one of the all-time great swindlers. Two masterpieces of the genre: S Bouaziz vs Miles, 1979 and Miles vs Short, 1980.

Another game where Gheorghiu was the "swindlee": Gheorghiu vs Liu Wenzhe, 1982.

Of course, the greatest swindle ever (I am its official propagandist) remains Beliavsky vs Christiansen, 1987.

Sep-20-11
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  perfidious: <FSR> Couldn't have happened to a nicer fixer, um, guy, to wit: Gheorghiu vs L Piasetski, 1977.
Sep-20-11
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  FSR: <perfidious> I'd forgotten that lovely story - not that RDK's reputation is close to sterling: see the bottom third or so of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymon....
Sep-20-11
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  perfidious: <FSR> That whole business after Baguio always made me curious, and I was unaware of most of the other stuff.

In my kibitz on the page I cited above, wish you could have the seen the player (Fred Lindsay) when he was going through his narrative, as it was comical. The event was the 1979 World Open.

Apr-29-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  WTHarvey: Black mates in 2.


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