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Roberto Grau vs Vladimir Petrov
Warsaw Olympiad (1935), Warsaw POL, rd 14, Aug-26
Slav Defense: Czech Variation. Classical System Main Line (D19)  ·  0-1

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<Petrovs'> annotations to this game:

[Event "Warsaw ol (Men)"]
[Site "Warsaw POL"]
[Date "1935.08.26"]
[EventDate "1935.08.16"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Grau, Roberto"]
[Black "Petrov, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Annotator "Petrov, Vladimir"]
[Source "Fride, Andris 'Vladimirs Petrovs: A Chessplayer's Story from Greatness to the Gulag' Caissa Editions, 2004, p.99; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/pgn4web/an... " ]

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 (4.e3!? e6 5.Nc3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 ) 4...dxc4 5.a4 ( 5.e3!? b5 6.a4 b4 7.Na2 ) 5...Bf5 6.e3 e6 7.Bxc4 Bb4! 8.O-O O-O 9.Qe2 ( 9.Ne2 Nbd7 10.Ng3 Bg6 11.Nh4 c5! ♖ubinstein-Alekhine,London,1922 )9...c5! ( 9...Nbd7? is incorrect ) 10.Rd1 Nc6 11.Na2 Qe7 12.Bb5 Rac8 13.Bxc6 Rxc6 14.Ne5 Rc7 15.b3 Rfc8 16.Nxb4 cxb4 ♗lack has the c-file as compensation for his doubled pawn 17.Nc4 Be4 18.Bb2 Bd5 to get rid of the strong ♘c4 19.Rdc1 b6 20.f3 Ne8 ♗lack accepts that White will get the c4-d4-e4 formation 21.e4 Bxc4 22.Rxc4 Rxc4 23.bxc4 a5! ♗l has the passed b-pawn as compensation 24.e5! b3! to free b4 for the ♗♕ 25.Bc3 Qd7 26.Ra3 Qc6 27.Rxb3 Qxa4 28.Rxb6 Rxc4 And now ♗lack has the passed a-pawn instead of the b-pawn 29.Qb2 h6 30.Rb8 Kh7 31.h3 Qd1+ 32.Kh2 Nc7 33.Bxa5 33...Rc2! and now ♗lack has control of the 7th rank as compensation for the passed pawn. 34.Qb1! Qe2! 35.Qg1 Nd5 36.Rb3 Ra2 37.Bc3 Qc2! ♘otes from ♙etrovs' games book by A.Fride. 0-1

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