Bronstein's Brilliant Game - confronting the Latvian Gambit

Submitted by billwall on Wed, 04/30/2008 at 5:54pm.

David Bronstein was born in 1924. He was a master at age 16 and was playing in the USSR championship semilfinals at age 17. In 1941, the USSR semifinals was held in Rostov. Bronstein was 17 when he played in it, defeating veteran Vladas Mikenas (born in Estonia and lived in Lithuania). In this game from that event, Mikenas played a Latvian Gambit. Bronstein introduced an early innovation in the opening (6.Be2), then won the game by the folllowing sequence - sac, sac, sac, sac, sac, and mate.

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by Skybax - 2 months ago
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I like it:D

by normajeanyates - 2 months ago
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[continuing from the preceding comment of mine]

But I have a beef with the title - it has a faint suggestion that the Latvian is unsound. I know - Reuben Fine said it explicitly in MCO-4 ---- Fine made other mistakes also ;)

by normajeanyates - 2 months ago
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Brilliant game! I had originally added - brilliantly annotated - but then I noticed it was Bill Wall's article, I emend that to - the annotation is up to Wall's usual standards.

btw Thanks for including Fischer-Pupols - i was looking for it since yesterday - it is not in e.g. the chesslab database - thought i'd look for it later - and the telepathic Bill Wall finds it for me today ;)