More Alexandr Zaitsev - Chessboard Warrior. The Art Of War
Afternoon everyone! I'm back with some more beautiful and baffling chess battles. A follow up to my last humble offering https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan/does-anyone-know-whats-going-on-alexandr-zaitsev-two-insane-games-and-some-rare-pictures.
Let's get straight to 'matters arising' from there.
Firstly my friend @kamalakanta has posted Bronstein's notes to his beautiful win over Zaitsev which I gave in passing, so to speak, there. You can find them here - https://www.chess.com/blog/kamalakanta/a-work-of-art?ncc=1#first_new_comment
The relevant picture
The player on the right is Alexandr Konstantinopolsky. You can find a little on him in one of my previous blogs - https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan/alexander-markovich-konstantinopolsky-some-games-and-pictures
In the comments last time a particular correspondence game was mentioned - Zaitsev's opponent - Grigory Sanakoev
lost the game, but thought enough of it to include it in his wonderful book.
Quite a battle!!
Here it is with Sanakoev's notes from the book. Two points. It's a great book - well worth getting your hands on. Secondly accept my apologies for the mess that the games notes cause - transcribing game notes written for a book - particularly with lots of analysis - into a pgn is a nightmare. 3 hours went into doing it here, and it still looks like a pigs ear!!
Time in hand, while the chicken is cooking, to throw in a couple more games - a bit more 'does anyone know what's going on?' stuff. As a Dragon lover I couldn't resist these, and have included my thoughts as I went along. I just love this stuff- almost an addiction! I tried other defences as Black, but always went back to my greatest love - hopefully you will understand after going over these bits of madness!
And last but not least, this one. Does anyone know what's going on!? Just another day in the chess life of Alexandr Zaitsev!
Via Griffin on twitter. original ruchess.ru.
That's it for today! Enjoy the rest of the weekend while I sort out the Yorkshire puddings!!
See you all next time. Take care.
