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Vasily Smyslov vs Ilia Kan
USSR Championship (1947), Leningrad URS, rd 4, Feb-07
Catalan Opening: Open Defense. Alekhine Variation (E03)  ·  1-0

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Oct-11-09  King.Arthur.Brazil: After an easy openning, white Bb4 and Nb3 get annoying space power. After serial positional moves, white 19.Nde4 headed to d6, which will be black disaster, which is avoided by double the P on f6.Smyslov trie to explore it. With no sucess, he turned to blacks problems: Pb7 and Bc8.Again Nd6 demolish the position, and no defeat to 41.Qd8! threat 42.Rxd7 Bxd7 43.Qxa8 The lonely option was Nb6 which cannot be player cause of Bf8+ win the Black Q.If 41...Rc6 42. Rxc6 Qxc6 43.Qd6 win, followed by Rxd7...
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  plang: 12..Qe7?! lost time after 13 a3; 12..Ng6 is an alternative. 17 Qd1 was played with the idea of answering 17..Qh5 with 18 h3. 10..Ba7 and 16..Qe5 were superficially aggressive but not positionally sound; Black never developed his queenside.

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