Sven Kjellander vs Eduardo Secchi (1959) Misfire!

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Sven Kjellander vs Eduardo Secchi
"Misfire!" (game of the day Mar-29-2024)
3rd Correspondence World Championship (1959) (correspondence), ICCF, Feb-01
Gruenfeld Defense: General (D80) · 0-1

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Jun-30-12		Benzol: One of the best games that was played in this tournament IMHO.

Jan-11-13		Benzol: Could make a good GOTD sometime.

Apr-13-14		Benzol: I wonder why this game hasn't been kibitzed on more frequently. It is a real gem.

May-03-15		Benzol: A very nice ending. If 49.Kxf6 Rf2+ picks up the Queen. And 49.Qxf6 Rxe5+ 50.Kh4 Rh5+ 51.Kg3 Rh3#.

May-03-15		Tullius: <Benzol> I suppose Black knew what he was doing when he played 24...Rec8; he must have taken 25.Bf1 into account. By doing so he takes a risk and creates an imbalance that makes the position difficult to assess. In the end the Rooks prove stronger than the Queen, but who can see that at move 24? I mean, you must have a lot of experience before you can even think of commenting on a game like this; that could be part of an answer to your question of April-13-14. Things might have been different, though, had it been a game between, say, Karpov and Kasparov.

Mar-29-24		jackmandoo: That's wild

Mar-29-24		goodevans: <Could make a good GOTD sometime.> It did and it is. Don't really get the pun though. Black was certainly the aggressor early on. White chose to defend when perhaps he could have been more aggressive himself, e.g. <21.d6!?> with the idea <21...Rxc1 22.Rxc1 Bxe4? 23.d7 ±>. <I suppose Black knew what he was doing when he played 24...Rec8; he must have taken 25.Bf1 into account. By doing so he takes a risk and creates an imbalance that makes the position difficult to assess.> <24...Rec8> wasn't the committal move. Against <25.Bf1> Black still has <25...Qd4> as an alternative to keep the material status quo. In fact that line has it's own interesting possibilities, e.g. <26.Nc4 Nxc4! 27.Rxd4 Rxc1> and the threat of 28...Bh3 will reap rewards. But I take your point about the risk. I think a lot of us wee mortals would readily take two Rs for the Q if it also meant flushing White's K into the open. I think the really clever part was maintaining the pressure for so long even though it meant letting White get in a dangerous looking attack of his own. The final move was a thing of beauty.

Mar-29-24		MissScarlett: Full name, <Sven Erik Gunnar Kjellander>. I had intended to steal <Benzol>'s thunder and recast the pun as <Secchi Homo>.

Mar-29-24		thegoodanarchist: < goodevans: <Could make a good GOTD sometime.> It did and it is. Don't really get the pun though....> < MissScarlett: Full name, <Sven Erik Gunnar Kjellander>>. Puns using a middle name require a bit more effort on the part of the reader. And the punster: E Zagoryansky vs P Romanovsky, 1943

Mar-29-24		goodevans: <<21.d6!?> with the idea <21...Rxc1 22.Rxc1 Bxe4? 23.d7 ±>.> Oops. It's 23.Bxd4 Qxd4 then 24.d7.

Mar-29-24		Saniyat24: Black's LSB was a thorn for Kjellander...!

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