I have to say, Paul Keres is always overlooked when people are talking about some of the best players in the world. I think he is definitely the best chess player who was not a World Chess Champion....

 

This game is particularly interesting to me as it reiterates the constant belief that development and position over material any time. After all, if you poorly position your pieces like black in this example, you'll be steam rolled!  Good job on the article kenytiger.  

White mate in 9. Others move, black checkmate more quickly. 

19. .. Kf8 20.Qxd6+ Kg8 21.Qe6+ Kg7 22.Bf6+ Kg6 23.Be5+ Kh7 24.Qf7+Kh6 25.Qf6+ Kh5 26.h3 Qe1+ 27.Rxe1 ... 28. g4#

good game.

Well,I don't understand why black resigned...there was plenty of play ahead...isn't it?

whoa! that is the price of greed. Develop, develop, develop...

An amazing game. Keres is one of my favorites, too!!

"white's 18th move was to eliminate the e4 bishop, the sole guardian of the g6-pawn. because in the varaitions after the last move, white must be able to capture the g-pawn to mate black." says benws

This is the part that still is unclear to me and that's where I suppose lies the genius of this attack.

Keres was amazing... One of my chess heroes. (Here's some controversy for you... I prefer Keres to Fischer!!)

Wow...just...I mean...wow. Thank you for this, amazing startegy.

i dont get it howed it end  i may not be good at chess but at least i know when im hungry

What a great game; I'm fairly new to playing chess and quickly i'm becoming a student of the game. It's articles such as this one that gives you the opportunity to breakdown the thought processes of the really good players.

Thanks for posting  

white's 18th move was to eliminate the e4 bishop, the sole guardian of the g6-pawn. because in the varaitions after the last move, white must be able to capture the g-pawn to mate black.

Thank you, kenytiger, for the superb presentation on GM Paul Keres and one of his illustrative games.

Cool Game! I love this kind of  games :) Thanks for sharing

A match between him and Alekhine would have been amazing. They would have each sacrificed all their pieces to each other. You have to have so much confidence and foresight to let black take so many pawns.

 

Interesting is that it begin as Sicilian which I now do not play, because too many people played Sicilian with me and I enjoy here openings instead of Standard when I created new game and this Alekhine showed me how and what to do with higher plane and what is strong way to remember whole game, really good game to study, remember and thought about the ways of mates in that corner where goes all figures when I watch professionals kibitzing. But it looks as Alekhine Defence attacking horse, really super!

bohat tight game...i mean marvelous

nice game...gud commentary 2

Amazing fight back from white. The sacrifice was enormous but the victory sure.

Thats great. 

nice game! thanks for sharing. 7.....Qa5+??. 9.Bd3? better Nxd4. 10. 0-0! very good move! after that blacks played very bad! agree 18.Rxe4?  better Qf6+. After that it's History!